Does your is it normal username reveal anything about who you are?

Did you create your username based on your interests, personality traits, beliefs, gender, etc.? Or did you pick something random and totally unrelated to you?

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  • Kitty:)

    I meow alot

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  • NoraBaker

    Uh... All it actually reveals is what I was reading about 3 months 3 weeks ago :)

    But one can always infer one thing or another beyond that: she reads; interested in wars; my character, personality and background based on which SOE agent I chose. At first I knew for sure it had been random, then I realized I had much more in common with Noor Inayat Kahn than I imagined.

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  • Jweezee

    Some friends and i were joking around about what are names would be if we were rappers. My first initial is J so whatever reason i chose jweezee. Turns out there is a rapper with that name, but it's spelled differently. I was just browsing the web when i found this site and saw something i wanted to comment on so i made an account. Jweezee just popped into my head at the time. Had i known i was going to actually going to use this site more than once i would've have been a little more creative. Oh well.

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  • Cuntsiclestick

    Someone used the word cuntsickestick to insult me on Facebook. I liked the word, so I used it as a username.

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    • charli.m

      It's a great word :)

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  • Ldizzy1234

    Hmm... growing up my great aunt used to call me Lizzydizzy(sometimes dizzylizzy too) as a nickname for being a little koo koo and off in outer space sometimes. My real name is Lauren though. But my middle name is Elizabeth, so thats where the Lizzy came from. I was actually quite young when she'd call me that. Its actually kind of insulting. But I'm a total goof sometimes so...

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  • TorothePekingese

    My username was based on the best dog ever, he's so cute aaannnnnddddd he just vomited on the rug. I'm gonna go clean that up now.

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  • I watched Tranzor Z as a kid?

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress

    sure.

    i really AM an angel in a glass dress... ;-)

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  • RaNdOmPoPcOrN

    Now you tell me.

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  • EndlessSuffering

    Mine shows that I'm a miserable person. Story of my life.

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  • MrLong!

    My name is MrLong. Long isn't my last name. Can you guess what this means then?

    Hint: ^8=D

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  • Nateuss

    Its a mash of the lead singer of fun., Nate Ruess. I'm pretty sure it just says how obsessed I am of him...

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  • AssBurgers

    My username is the title of an episode from my favourite TV show.

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    • Avant-Garde

      South Park?

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      • AssBurgers

        Yes :)

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  • Failedcasanova

    Failed Casanova. I think the name speaks for itself.

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  • bananaface

    I'm not sure my username would say about me other than I couldn't think of a username so I just chucked 2 words together.

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  • Glass

    I saw this origionally as some dude's username at a gaming forum years ago. I thought it was a cool username, and about four years later when joining this site, I thought "Hey, I can finally use that as my username."

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  • Avant-Garde

    Yes, it does.

    About a few months or a year ago, I decided if I ever got a account on here that my username would be "Avant-Garde".

    avant-garde |ˌavänt ˈgärd, ˌaväN|
    noun (usu. the avant-garde)
    new and unusual or experimental ideas, esp. in the arts, or the people introducing them: works by artists of the Russian avant-garde.
    adjective
    favoring or introducing such new ideas: a controversial avant-garde composer.
    DERIVATIVES
    avant-gardism |-ˌdizəm|noun,
    avant-gardist |-dist|noun
    ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting the vanguard of an army): from French, literally ‘vanguard.’ Current senses date from the early 20th cent.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde

    Taking all these in account, I think the name does suit me. Mirroring aspects of my personality as well as things I aspire to achieve. I'm also glad I got this account when I did, it would've been terrible if someone else had claimed this name! However, I did have other names in mind, all which were based on other french terms/movements.

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  • GuessWho

    I wonder...

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  • dejaentendu!

    Brand New album. :)

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  • Boo!

    I put my name as boo! because in the mario game you can play boobye and I loved it!!? I could play it for hours and not get over it. I was soo hung up on it that I became the boo! I love scaring ghosts!

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  • Ono

    I mentioned this in another thread recently, but Ono is just a shortened version of Onomatopoeia which I used to use when gaming, but some people couldn't pronounce it and it would just get shortened to Ono so I just adopted that. Onomatopoeia is my favorite word.

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    • I thought you were a Yoko Ono fan :(

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      • Avant-Garde

        Me too:'(

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      • Ono

        She has fans?

        It wasn't till a few weeks later that I realised the Yoko connection, but i've persisted with it. I like the short and simple name, and if I can't have my artsy fartsy fancy word as a name, then at least it's a palindrome.

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  • dom180

    Only my name :) I use this name in a load of places; if you see a dom180 anywhere else it was probably me :P The number is just a number; no meaning attached. I sort of wish I put more thought into my IIN name, but when I created it I didn't know I'd be here for so long!

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    • sassafrassi

      Bored so I went on a wonderful journey through the Google universe. Found you on ROBLOX if that was you, then on STICKAM with a picture of a pig wearing sunglasses. All of this led me to finding out Shuggy's real name...nvm it's already on his profile I just forgot..XD oh well it was still fun.

      :)

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      • dom180

        The Stickam is definitely me :) The pig with the sunglasses is still in my bedroom somewhere :D The Roblox account isn't me though, but an IMPOSTER! O_O

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  • BurnaBaby27

    Nickname and birth month and day.

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  • Anime7

    Reveals my interest. One of them at least.

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    • What is the 7 for?

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      • Anime7

        It's my age. ahaha

        It's actually how many times I've switched accounts. Originally my name was "Anime" but my accounts kept on getting deleted so I had to keep making new accounts, like "Anime2" or "Anime3." So I've been "Anime" seven times.

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        • Really?? Why did they get deleted so many times?

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          • Anime7

            I have no idea. However, for this account I used my brother's e-mail address as opposed to mine.

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  • Captain_Kegstand

    Um... I like beer? Not really no. I have used this screen name in everything from xbox to email to iin, since I started using it in middle school. It just kinda feels like my "name" when I am online so I keep it.

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  • Yumazing

    I'm narcissistic and think I'm amazing.
    Nah, it's a nickname consisting of my name and amazing.

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  • ValleyofVung

    Mine's a place from my favourite Dr. Seuss book 'I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew'.

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  • No. I tend to be reasonably obscure. My former user name was even less imaginative.

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  • howaminotmyself

    Mine came from the movie "I heart Huckabees." I felt it worked as a good internet mask.

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    • bananaface

      For like a year I thought your name was how im into myself:L

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      • howaminotmyself

        A few people have said that to me. I wonder how many people think that. Because it really changes lol the meaning of my name. Lol.

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        • bananaface

          Haha, depends if everyone is as lazy as I am and skims over long usernames:L

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  • misca

    Nope. "misca" is just a variation of a random real name I saw and I only use that username here in IIN.

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  • shuggy-chan

    well shuggy is a play on my last name, and "chan" is a suffix used in japanese, and im 1/2 japanese sooo, thats about it

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    • anti-hero

      But Jackie Chan is Chinese.

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  • No meaning behind it, despite what people think due to it sopunding like "it does".

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  • anti-hero

    As some people know, Parrish is a tribute to my dead friend. It was his last name.

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    • R.I.P. Andy

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      • anti-hero

        Indeed.

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    • Anime7

      I'm sorry about your lost, and I actually had no idea also.

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      • anti-hero

        Thanks, it is fine.

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    • Captain_Kegstand

      I had no idea of that actually.

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      • anti-hero

        Yes indeed the 3rd room mate. Bastard made our rent go from 1/3 to 1/2 haha JK but it is true.

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        • Captain_Kegstand

          Ah, so you and PLA used to be part of "the three amigos". Sorry to hear about this :(

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          • anti-hero

            Yeah I guess you could put it like that. But I get to be Steve Martin.

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  • aussiewolf

    i have wanted to change my name a few times because people assume that im a guy but i have been told that i am the "original" aussiewolf and that im not allowed to change it lol. so in saying that, no, my username doesnt reveal anything about me. people assume too much.

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    • It's true I thought you were a guy based on the username.

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  • It was a personal nickname I had for myself.

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  • dappled

    I chose it after reading a poem which included the phrase "sun's dapple". I didn't choose it for here, but for a computer game. I later used it here. Although the word in the poem was dapple, I chose the past tense.

    That tells you I read poetry, play computer games, and live in the past. It doesn't tell you that I chose "dappled" because I like the shape of it, the curve and symmetry of it. It also doesn't tell you anything about "dappy juice" which I recommend you look up directly before a meal, not directly after one.

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  • it sure does i love water, the sound of waves and sand between my toes is so nice

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    • dappled

      Watch out for the penguins!

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      • i harness a few up and water ski :)

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        • dappled

          I get albatrosses to grip me by the shoulders and I parascend. :)

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          • hahha

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  • lc1988

    Lc are my initials and the initials of the city I used to live in. If you know the state I'm from that should be easy ha. 1988 is not the year of my birth because I'm tricky like that.

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  • charli.m

    I dunno. Does it?

    I can't make up good names, didn't want to use the username I use elswehere, so I used a random name generator and m is my initial.

    In short I guess my username says I'm boring, uncreative and a bit weird.

    Crap.

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