What's inspiration behind your username?

submitted by Vulphere from (self.AskSaidIt)

Vulphere was originally devised from the mix of Vulkan and sphere. (coincidentally also rhyme with Vulpix) A random and unique username that would be recognised as my internet persona.

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[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 14 fun14 insightful - 13 fun15 insightful - 14 fun -  (6 children)

I wanted to get one of those usernames that if the site takes off, in a few years everyone will be like "Damn, how was he able to claim that name?!"

[–]Jesus-Christ 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Same lol. I remember occasionally seeing usernames such as 'Bob' on Reddit and always thought they were lucky to grab em' before anyone else did.

[–]robert 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

u/Jesus-Christ, your words speak to me

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    [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

    Show off

    [–]-001 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

    Me too.

    [–]friend 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    Same

    [–]magnora7 14 insightful - 12 fun14 insightful - 11 fun15 insightful - 12 fun -  (3 children)

    magnora I made up with random syllables and I thought it sounded cool, and the 7 is because I've been banned from reddit 6 other times...

    [–][deleted] 8 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

    haha I was doing that with a different name on reddit, added a number to each new one, they then banned all possible future names going up to 100 of it and I'm also the reason conspiracy makes new users wait 2 months to post now

    [–]useless_aether 16 insightful - 8 fun16 insightful - 7 fun17 insightful - 8 fun -  (3 children)

    the elites call us useless eaters, but it was already taken..

    [–]JasonCarswell 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

    That makes me sad a little.

    I thought you were clever first. Turns out it was by default second.

    I don't think I ever told you that I think you have the best name on here.

    [–]useless_aether 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

    the best name

    no way! :-))

    [–]JasonCarswell 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

    Way.

    Also, FYI, I know a guy at Burning Man who's handle is EtherSmith.

    [–]--- 11 insightful - 15 fun11 insightful - 14 fun12 insightful - 15 fun -  (0 children)

    Just wanted to see whether usernames could begin with a hyphen. What happened next will shock you

    [–]PodestasBoyToy 12 insightful - 9 fun12 insightful - 8 fun13 insightful - 9 fun -  (1 child)

    John Podesta Fucks Kids.

    [–]10PoundPoop 7 insightful - 7 fun7 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

    This guys fucks!

    [–]Farseli 11 insightful - 9 fun11 insightful - 8 fun12 insightful - 9 fun -  (2 children)

    Oh it's so dumb.

    I was a teenager on a small Star Ocean forum. I was making some philosophical point against censorship. That we can always make new words or something.

    So I just slapped a few sounds together to make something and realized I liked it.

    [–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    SoFarMeLikey

    [–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Star Ocean is AWESOME <3

    [–]ACCOUNT 9 insightful - 11 fun9 insightful - 10 fun10 insightful - 11 fun -  (1 child)

    I came up with ACCOUNT as this is, in fact, my account!

    [–]Hobo 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

    This one might be my favorite here so far.

    [–]10PoundPoop 9 insightful - 10 fun9 insightful - 9 fun10 insightful - 10 fun -  (5 children)

    I had just finished up a rather large one.

    [–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

    Is 5PoundBag you're GF's name?

    [–]10PoundPoop 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

    It could be, but I just call her Mrs.Carswell.

    [–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

    Mom?

    [–]10PoundPoop 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

    You can call me Dad now. Or Mr.Poop if you're not ready.....son.

    [–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Okay, Pop.

    [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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      [–]General_Kentobi 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      Hell yeah Hanako gang rise up

      [–]Hobo 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

      I'm a hobo so I figured I ought to embrace it. Plus I wanted a short username in case the site took off.

      [–]i_cansmellthat 8 insightful - 8 fun8 insightful - 7 fun9 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

      I have an insanely strong sense of smell, it's irritating really. If you went out drinking I can probably name most of what you drank a few hours later. Suppose my alt should be "my_eyesare-shit," I meant to register a something different here and just never did it.

      [–]denlille 8 insightful - 7 fun8 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

      It's really a stupid and unintersting story ahah.

      When I was a kid (10y-11y) I made one of the worst minecraft video ever, it was to introduce a map I've found. I was playing on a crap laptop where I played minecraft at 7 fps and I had like half of my keyboard key who wasnt working and in this video I had writed "Den Lille" on a sign and when I rewatched this video recenlty I foud it really funny because it litteraly doesnt mean anything in my native language.

      So I just took it because my username was lame and I found it funny, that's it.

      [–]FormosaOolong 8 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

      My fervent taste for and insatiable addiction to oolong teas from the high mountains of Taiwan inspired my name. Dull but true.

      [–]ezra 8 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

      it's my name :D i'm not very creative.

      [–]VantaFount 3 insightful - 6 fun3 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

      I heard these guys are better than you
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acK0KH2uJGc

      [–]ezra 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      Haha, my dad loves making jokes about them and George Ezra.

      [–]Jesus-Christ 7 insightful - 7 fun7 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 7 fun -  (1 child)

      God was already taken.

      [–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Jesus is also alright

      [–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

      inspired by trevor belmont from castlevania

      [–]magnora7 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

      This? https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Trevor_Belmont

      Cool! Castlevania games are fun.

      [–]menacetosobriety 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      the original castlevania game for the B&W gameboy might be my favorite game of all time

      [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      yeah the games are really great and I like that netflix show

      [–]menacetosobriety 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      my old reddit u/n was a referance to how I am the last living of all my friends. all but one of them died of an overdose. since I'm still not over it, and am still thinking about suicide by od every day. I found this u/n to be more fitting to my current situation

      [–]VantaFount 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

      This one? This is a new name for an old man. Been kinda stewing in a funk for the past week, sickened by old haunts and hiveminds, and when I started looking for new pastures, I decided I needed a new identity. Thought about what form that persona might take, and the only image that came to mind was a fountain of blackest ichor.
      So Vanta (a word which I later learned means "boastful") like vantablack, and Fount.
      Not very poetic, but it'll do for now.

      [–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      Last name: O'Nawledge

      [–]Laser_Magnum 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

      sigh It's really stupid, but it's based on this mod for Fallout: New Vegas.

      Laugh all you want, and laugh even if you didn't find this funny, because the thought of you feeling positive makes me happy.

      [–]VantaFount 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      I love Fallout New Vegas, and modding, so I think this is cool.
      Kinda looks like Captain Mal's pistol from Firefly.

      [–]xynixia 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      I wanted something that's very unique, to the point that passerby's would just forget about me, but those who are actually interested in me wouldn't have a hard time remembering my username.

      Kinda egocentric, but I only wanna be remembered by those who care.

      [–]Yhvr 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      I was tired of the Minecraft username "PaNdOrAplayer595", so I entered 4 random characters on my keyboard. 3 years later, I still use that name.

      EDIT: If you wonder how I came up with "PaNdOrAplayer595", Here you go. PaNdOrA - I used to listen to music on pandora. Mixed capitalization because it was C O O L. player - I don't know. 595 - I was 5 when I made it, no clue why the 9 was there.

      [–]happysmash27 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      "happy" because I liked happiness, "smash" for my old school, S.M.A.S.H. (Santa Monica Alternative School House), and 27 as a random number for the number I needed at the end of my username for Club Penguin. My username is very old…

      [–]antikarma98 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

      I'm antikarma, because I thought (and still think) Reddit's karma system is ass-backward and encourages rotten content. And I'm antikarma98 because, apparently, other people agreed and had already taken the name.

      [–]Lefty 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

      Am a Lefty. Was never able to get the name on other sites.

      [–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 9 fun3 insightful - 8 fun4 insightful - 9 fun -  (2 children)

      Politically or masturbatorially?

      [–]Farseli 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

      I wonder if there is any correlation between the two.

      [–]Lefty 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      Masturbatorially.

      [–]Sacksmack 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

      A friend's name in old old Runescape, the one with 2D sprites. It's not a name I'd normally use for myself, and one half of my brain picked it for shock value against the other half. Or something :P

      [–]420 5 insightful - 7 fun5 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

      This thread reminded me that I could probably take any username, so I took the opportunity.

      [–]redditecaesari 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

      It's a decent/poor translation of "render unto Caesar"

      That line has always stuck with me.

      [–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      You might dig this: https://infogalactic.com/info/Caesar's_Messiah If you don't like reading there's a docu and if you don't want to watch that Joseph Atwill does lots of YouTube interviews discussing this idea.

      [–]BloomingOvaries 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

      I was studying biology on that matter during Spring time...

      [–]Work2Death 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      I used to work too much.

      [–]Greedeater 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      Years upon years ago, was at a friend's place smoking weed (first time for me, not for them) when her dad knocked on the door, told her the package she wanted had come. It was a Beatmania game and attachment for the PS1, and we thought it was so cool...

      Loaded it up and checked through the tracks. Since I'd played piano from an early age, I got first crack. It was this song, and it opened up my love for peripheral games like guitar hero, DJ hero, Rock Band and such. The name stuck as me Gamertag for years, and I still crack it out on occasion, such as now.

      [–]Mnemonic 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      I wanted a name easy to remember, also a Ram doubler is cool.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film)

      two more years before I can become a mnemonic courier!

      [–]e_t_ 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

      aliens

      [–]RobertAllenJewelry 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

      It is just my real name, and has jewelry at the end of it because I make jewelry as a hobby. I know, I know. "Cool story bro", LOL.

      [–]Troll 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      I have been trolling the internet since the late 90s.

      [–]Kryptos 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      Kryptos is the name of an unsolved crypto-sculture outside of the CIA HQ.

      [–]skekze 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

      I eat gelflings.

      [–]General_Kentobi 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

      I'm really into prequel memes. My previous catch-all username had my name in it as well and when I joined the one Discord server I used my typical "hello there" greeting. Someone replied "General Kentobi" and I loved it. The rest is history.

      [–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      ....I thought it was something from Star Wars, but this is a much better story <3

      [–]SlackBladder 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      From Sir Edmund Blackadder, traveller of time and occasional slayer of kings.

      [–]MrRubberDucky 4 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

      Rubber Ducks are cool and i really loved then as a kid (and i still do!). That's it basically

      [–]data 4 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

      statistics.

      [–]isthisreddit 4 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

      Just read it, you get the point.

      [–]We_Are_God 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      Because we are. Most of us don't realize it though.

      [–]TitanUranus 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

      Twelve years ago I saw a meme on a now-dead forum, it was a ship with "Titan Uranus" emblazoned on the side.

      Ever since then, I have used this username or a variant on all forums that I have frequented.

      I think it's a fairly good pun.

      [–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

      Great porn variants: TitsAndYourAnus or Titan Uranus N. Vulva

      Is it punny because Titan is a moon of Saturn?

      [–]CarrowCanary 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Same name I've used on reddit for 6 years, after Carrow Road, home of Norwich City FC, who are known as The Canaries.

      [–]Starlight_Fire 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I think starlight is a pretty word, and fire refers to financial independence/early retirement which is what I made my account to comment on/about on Reddit.

      [–]Lambdadelta 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Well, my name is based off a character, and I was happy to be able to claim it - no underscores or numbers. It's not my only username though.

      [–]Icearstorm 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      I have this username on most pseudonymous sites I use, and it started on DeviantArt of all places. I thought the combination of elements of ice, fire, and storm were cool, but Icefirestorm was taken so I put "Ice," "sear" (like charring/fire), and "storm" together and, well, here I am.

      [–]BackwardsCompatible 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

      I just needed a new random name so here I am.

      [–]Thraex 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      Just think its a cool name, based on gladiators

      [–]baqpad 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

      I wanted to make a name that was visually a mirror-image palindrome. I later realized that boqpod would be perfect but I like how baqpad sounds like backpad.

      [–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      quodboup

      q!db!p = kid bip

      bio!q = bio IQ / bio ick

      pulevelup = poo level up

      [–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      Lack of imagination on my part and my parents. But more because I have too much imagination and if I start taking on aliases and personas I'll never be able to keep track of them all across all platforms everywhere. Laziness or pragmatism - you decide.

      I appreciate anonymity and security and those who use it, I also think it's important, for some at least, to be brave and bold and not hide from the corrupt corporatocracy and all their evil agents. I find asstrolls who hide behind the safety of their anonymizing aliases despicable cowards.

      Also, I have no relations that I care for more than my right to speak freely and if "they" come after me through them that's on "them", and it's not like I'm saying much important other than simply resisting all "authority", corruption, dogma, theft, and violence everywhere.

      [–]Insulting_Insults 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

      My Reddit is Insulting_Insults.

      And there, my first posts I wanted to make were on the subreddit, Insults.

      Now with Piracy and CrackWatch being banned I've moved here for the piracy and such.

      Still waiting on a SaidIt Enhancement Suite.

      [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      RES for SaidIt mostly exists! https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/je/res_for_saidit_supports_chrome_opera_firefox_and/

      [–]Insulting_Insults 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Thanks for the link! :3

      [–]PaigeAP 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/je/res_for_saidit_supports_chrome_opera_firefox_and/

      There is RES for SaidIt but for me it screwed with the upvoting icons and with settings I had for Reddit.

      [–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      What is CrackWatch?

      What is a SaidIt Enhancement Suite?

      [–]PaigeAP 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      CrackWatch is a sub about keeping up with the status of video/games(whether there has been a cracked version) and notifying people when it is released(no links).

      SaidIt Enhancement Suite would be the SaidIt version of the Reddit Enhancement Suite which ads customizable functions like:

      tagging user(writing something besides their username to remind you where you interacted with them

      customizing colors of the usernames

      and many more functions.

      There is actually RES for SaidIt -https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/je/res_for_saidit_supports_chrome_opera_firefox_and/

      but it works horrible and using it screwed with my settings for Reddit.

      [–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I don't do games. That makes a lot more sense now.

      I was thinking of people surveilling junkies in alleys.

      I installed RES but haven't bothered reading the instructions. I don't do Reddit so no worries here.

      d3rr was going to just add the RES code into the SaidIt code. I don't know if that's still a thing.

      [–]Darkri 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      When I was a very young lad, I loved the pokemon Darkrai, then when making my first account on something (Webkinz) I made that my name... However I was a dumb lil shit and misspelled it, but I kept it all these years!

      [–]dicklover69 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

      It's pretty self evident I'd say.

      [–]music 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      It's great having a username about something incredibly generic that most would assume was already taken... It's taken because of me!

      [–]OC_Rookie 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      Was on overclock.net and had no idea what I was doing.

      [–]Mochasaur 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      I like mochas and dinosaurs. So, mochasaur. Sorry it's not super inspirational. :P

      [–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      I am the king of it

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