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submitted 1 year ago by misnina@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I don't mean my username! Yours!

I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking 'guess' or saying ':)' or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person's username?

Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone's name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people's weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.

Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?

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[-] Annies_Boobs@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Some may get mine others may think Iโ€™m a weirdo.

[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I can't remember who is the Annie that is thirsted over the most, but I assume that one's bossom.

[-] prothy@terefere.eu 2 points 1 year ago

Do you want a banana?

[-] ElGatoEsBlanco@labdegato.com 2 points 1 year ago

Mine should be easy enough lol

[-] putoelquelolea@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Spanish usernames unite!

[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's been 18 years since I had spanish class but uhhhh, the cat is white?

[-] six@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'd love to participate but I think mine may be a little too easy. haha

[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
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[-] threevi@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Came up with this name during my edgy teenager phase

[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

edgy as a clue, huh? hmmmmm...I can't imagine why 3 Vis would be edgy lol. 3 V for Vendettas?

My brain is taking threevi to sound like eevee and 3 IVs but that's because I eternally have pokemon on the brain.

[-] threevi@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Ding ding ding

Three VI = three sixes = 666

[-] agonizingnose@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago
[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] agonizingnose@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Haha not quite. It was a fandomly generated gamer tag for games for windows live when I was young. Somehow I remembered it and it just sorta stuck lol

[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If I had used xbox gamer tags when I was young, I'm sure I would have been stuck on some very long standing nonsense name, but we only had nintendo so no real online capabilities lol.

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[-] Firnin@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago
[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It just sounds like a name, but I'll admit I misread it as Finlin (how my weird mouth says Finland) pretty quickly.

[-] Firnin@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, interesting :D Actually, it is a name, but from a fantasy novel

[-] privetmoshi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I know privet isn't private, but it does seem like a solider named moshi.

Nobody is guessing this one

[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

You don't go on pizza

[-] Cattypat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago
[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Your name is Catty and you you pat Cats. I did almost read it as Paddy Cake but Catty Pake instead.

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[-] Fizzlebleam@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think my username is hard to guess

[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I thought it was fizzle beam so that was clear, a beam fizzling out. But a Bleam? hmm....Not sure!

[-] Fizzlebleam@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

the Fizzle beam was the name of an attack I used in a role play game, I was a fire mage ( a fizzle is a failed nuclear explosion) , and bleam is just beam with a L in the middle, for no reason

[-] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ah so my misreading was correct! That's a fun username!

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