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?
Some may get mine others may think I’m a weirdo.
Mine’s insanely on the nose… i’m not very creative.
I don’t think googling will help, but I’m up for some guesswork.
Sup?
I would be extremely surprised.
Kobayashi’s long last brother?
Nobody is guessing this one
You don’t go on pizza
If you figure it out, would you kindly tell me? I have absolutely no idea.
I know you mean satiric as satire but I sort of read it as “sarcastic” which fits with your reply, lol. A weasel that is ineffective on the internet, because satire is dead.
THAT weasel might be ineffective, but not me 😈
(I Know, answering 2 days later kinda defeats the purpose of my name… Mine is an obscure and regional reference, so i wouldn’t be mad if you don’t get it.)
My username means, I am Steve.
Mine isn’t very interesting, but sure
Mine’s pretty obvious.
Well is The Arbiter from Halo, or just in general?
Definitely Halo, was a huge fan back in the day and now just keep using the name for consistency.
Well now my username just feels boring haha
a small russet potato! and 08, would be a bit young if it was when you were born, so when you graduated school? Could just be a number of course
Certainly a good guess! It actually comes from the fact that my name is Russ[ell], and my name comes directly from my father so I’m “Russell Jr”. Then the number 08 comes from my birth date, which is the 8th of March!
Ah! I didn’t think about 08 ever being simply the day of your birthday instead of year, that very interesting.
It just means there are 7 other russjr’s on here.
Kinda weird.
Oh god, I don’t know how I’d be able to compete with the others!
Who can figure it out?
I like @misnina@lemmy.ml’s interpretation. But I had to comment on yours since mine is only 2 letters different. Though mine is pretty obvious where it came from :)
Honestly thought it sounded cool, like a realistic kernel service.
A mailer-daemon that gained sentience (became lucid).
Close! Thought the word lucid was cool and am nerdy with servers, so I chose daemon as it relates to my hobby/career.
More or less a realistic kernel service.
I’m actually curious what people would say about mine!
It’s Dutch short for telefoon
That’s a good one too!