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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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[โ€“] Annies_Boobs@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] offthecrossbar@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Annies_Boobs@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

๐Ÿ–Š๏ธ

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] prothy@terefere.eu 2 points 2 years ago

Do you want a banana?

[โ€“] ElGatoEsBlanco@labdegato.com 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mine should be easy enough lol

[โ€“] putoelquelolea@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Spanish usernames unite!

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] six@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Firnin@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Firnin@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] threevi@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Came up with this name during my edgy teenager phase

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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.

[โ€“] pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] threevi@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

Ding ding ding

Three VI = three sixes = 666

[โ€“] agonizingnose@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] agonizingnose@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] privetmoshi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nobody is guessing this one

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

You don't go on pizza

[โ€“] Cattypat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] Fizzlebleam@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think my username is hard to guess

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Fizzlebleam@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Why yes, yes it is!

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