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Pouring Rain
From a planet named Arcturus and then i changed it to Arctara xD
Reunilu
Reuniclus.

Took out some of the consonants to make the name sound cute. Worked pretty well and hey! I got myself a unique name.
CSLM
The first letters of my full name
No, I won't tell you which is lel
Rwyta
My name said it all really
Caput Mortuum
I tried to use "Cookiezi", but it's already taken and i'm forced to use this name instead. Oh, I wish I had some kind of time travelling device to take it first...
Meah
Mafieah
Alfa Q
Say my username out loud.
Blanc Kisaragi
It's a combination of two game characters...
UmbrellaChair
Used to play League of Legends (season 2/3 time period) and wanted to play with friends but they were all way lower ranked than me so the mmr was all over the place. Made a second account to play with them and actually have fun, one of them was a girl named Umbrella Table, told me to be Umbrella Chair. Wish we were still in touch :(
Rurree
Fellow
Just a random word, that came into my head xD
sparxo
I had a friend called Sparxie on YouTube (He deleted his channel I think) and I had a channel called ExoPlays and I was thinking of our names combined and Sparxo came to mind and I just thought it was cool. Later I was signing up for osu! because Sparxie told me about it and I just used SparxoOSU as my username.

Nitrous
Real Name + Year of Birth + Hobby = n20gaming
Since people tend to call me n20 or nitrous, I switched to LeNitrous.
After years have passed I simply called myself Nitrous.

Damn thats some evolution right there.
n0stamina
FFXV
Achromalia
Hmm, I don't really remember, but I remember making this name up on some game from like 5 years ago... I was strangely fascinated with names starting wI th the letter X. Now I think of it as a mix of "Xeno-", which is a prefix for saying "Unknown", and "Equinox" for... I dunno, equality between things, idek. Kinda like UnknownHorizons or some name like that, but uhhh, figured that the name would be too long.

Just my guess xD

I plan to change my online alias to Xethrynn or something like that, maybe starting with youtube, but idk, it could change. :3
Arnold0
Simple : Something like more than 10 years ago I was at school and wanted to register on some website. I had no internet at home and my computer was probably still the 486 DX2 66MHz so no luck getting internet on that anyways. So I wasn't realy knowing the internet "rules" and just entered my name in the "Username" field. It said me "Nope, Arnold is already used, you can chose in between these 3 choices" and Arnold0 was one of them. I had no imagination back then, and I still don't. It would be very wierd for me to be called by something else than my name nowadays (The only exeption being Arnlol, because Arnold0 was already used on Youtube and Twitch...). Whitin these years I've had people calling me ArnoldZero, but also some calling Arnoldo. Most of the times, people just call me Arnold now which is better.
Luxanna
Obviously My Username Came From the Name Lux From League of Legends Lux's Full name Btw :o But my Past Username was simply_meh But yeah I miss my old username :o Well whatever 8^)
loli66
In the past i liked lolis A LOT so yeah could not become with a better idea than this one
Blitzfrog
Famous dota1 1v5 player called Jackfrog, one of the original makers of Dota, icefrog. Decided to join the frog family, added blitz at the front
Zigzagoober
Came up with this after I started wanting a username that catchy and mature.
It's a mixture of life (luminous), death (noose) and a pun (Luminoose). It's supposed to symbolize a struggle with depression, and how humour can help make the best of a good situation.
Sometimes the "noose" gets changed to "noot" is Luminoose is already taken on a game or site, because my partner and I often cry out "noot noot!" to each other (from Pingu).
My username used to be PizzaPandaNinja, a combination of my favourite animal and real life nickname, favourite food and something random. I really wanted to be a Let's Player, you see, and fantasized about fanart of a ninja panda eating a pizza. Sadly for me I'm too nervous and have speech difficulties so that'll never happen.
Antlia-
star wars the clone wars
hirsute
Pituophis
I like snakes
Tuttelli
I think i don't have to explain...
johnmedina999
I have no fucking clue. It's not even close to my real name, and I hate it now. I made this a long time ago when I used to play League of Legends, and it's the one I use for forums and such. If I would have known that this was an online game, I would have used the username I use for PSN and Steam ("TheMegoLego888"), and I'm considering getting supporter to change it.
Tsred
My first e-mail I had was "tsredsfan5"

I started using it as my username.

It later got shortened to "Tsredsfan", with me adding the capital T just because it felt comfortable.

I shortened it again to "Tsred" because "Tsredsfan" didn't fit vertically on my avatar.
johnmedina999

Tsred wrote:

My first e-mail I had was "tsredsfan5"

I started using it as my username.

It later got shortened to "Tsredsfan", with me adding the capital T just because it felt comfortable.

I shortened it again to "Tsred" because "Tsredsfan" didn't fit vertically on my avatar.
Does the ts stand for anything in particular?
AngryDove
During the time I made this username, I was trying to find an online alias to use across everything. So where did my username originate from? If you look carefully you'll realise that my name looks a lot like Kirigaya which is in reference to the main protagonist SAO. Yes I was young and naive at the time and came up with this name...

P.S "AngryDove" is my new online alias so yeah I'd change my name if I could.
Banbeucmas
Randomly got it when i was 6
Basicly this name is strange and unique at the same time, there is no inspriation for me to get this name so I use it
Pozy
My username originates from school. Im currentry studying to become an electrician, my teacher previous year at school were gonna teach us about the right and wrong screwdrivers to use on different screws and its differences. One of those were the Pozydrive screwdriver, I though it sounded funny and wierd so I used it as a username on steam. The people I played with called me Pozy so I changed my username to Pozy.
reflexbeast
i was 10 and was creating a username for minecraft and my gamertag included the word reflex in it and for some reason I also used the word beast a lot at the time.
Lonzy_old
i was thinking to create an cool and simple nickname / username
then i was thinking about lonely

and suddenly 1 word pop up in my head


LONZY IZ A NC NAME FAKAA
Nissanwarrior69
my username came from my friends xbox gt which is nissanninja69 which is from an achivement for a xbox360 game called forza horizon with the achivement being called nissan ninja
zeno61
My very first username that I made for my very first mmorpg played. Probably based off from some old anime I forgot now. Sometimes I'm too lazy to think of new usernames so I stick with this with most of my accounts.
big suck
an extraordinary set of events
WavePoint
My first username is from Minecraft called "endersteve137" (Ender is from the Minecraft mob called Enderman, which teleports around which is cool, Steve is the default protagonist of the game, and 137 which used to be an ID for a command block (command block is a block which manipulates a block or mob or ANYTHING where the game normally doesn't do with a command from baby simple to year-refined.), but now switched to a name instead) I started to used this name all the way from 2013 to 2016, even though in 2015 I stopped playing Minecraft. But when I created my username in Geometry Dash which is called "WavePoint", I slowly switch my username from "endersteve137" to "WavePoint" in 2016, because the wave in that game looks so cool along with any electronica, follows the beat and goes 2-3x speed alternating from mini portal and normal portal. :D

I hate the username "endersteve137" now.

Here's the video that amazed me with the wave and helped me create a fresh username! (wow 0/10 orginality)
Florent-Nemesis

Waves have points, so don't go in front of them unless you have a wall or sawblade or whatever... to kill it :cry:

Y U DO DIS :x
Eoneru
I created this, I think, 2 years ago....
Akagi came from a typo of the word "Akaji" which I think translates to fire in Japanese and i did a quick Google search and I was wrong, because I like fires, it's cool to look at.

Leonel, coz its my middle name (eg:Firstname Leonel MI. Lastname)

and I slapped those two together and I created my own identity online. :)
Sayorie
author of nekopara
T3ars_old
All the tears that i have given to the world.
Peronsoda
Been using Peronsoda as long as i can remember but its orgins are from a softdrink (chocker :roll: ) which i used to enjoy and probably still do
JetstreamCece
A typo (:
HLT EKS
I like to play coop/multiplayer games, my favorite role was being a medic/healer or support. I love helping the team but I really also like stealing kills. Then my friend told me I was an Extreme killstealer, and there originated my name EKS (ExtremeKillStealer).

P.S. HLT is my team (Hidden Lotus Team)
Zangston
I was very nomadic with my usernames and came up with pretty much a different one for each account I made. Then, when I had to make a name for my League of Legends account, I had to come up with something original, since the one I was planning on using was taken.

I just took a simplified spelling of my last name and the last part of my first name.

Winston + Zhang = Zangston

I'm so creative.
Loli_Samurai
This manga I read, forgot which one. There's this guy who had a t-shirt that said loli samurai on it. I thought oki den i'll take that, not very original I know.
Kyujuroku 96
A spanish rock band that I heard about on the news. Ive just taken the name because its cool. Never listened to them though
-Yuni
It's an abbreviature of ''Yunibāsaru tensai'' which is the romaji of the japanese translation of ''universal genius'', i thought it sounded cool so i took it.
HoboFromHell
It was actually a running joke among my friends. I made jokes about becoming a hobo in school even though I didn't mean it, but for them it was funny, and eventually when I got Xbox Live for the first time the only thing that came to mind was HoboFromHell21. I thought they wouldn't like it, but my friends loved the name so I stuck with it. It's a good reminder of middle school, and the name still sound okay to me.
Alexander_Weird
Well, I really want my name to be called Alexander irl, and I'm weird af. Boom! Username born
Kuen
It's just my first name 5 times, i'm not really a creative person.
rya
I liked japanese word akuma and added ry to it (idk why, lol), now I'm using just three first characters of it.
Yakutatazu
my name comes from self-hatred...

役立たず (yakutatazu) = useless, deadbeat
Acr0h
My names origin is a bit wierd and a bit long as well.

i was once sitting in my room with my friend and we were thinking of a xbox live name because i didnt want the name that xbox had given me anymore.
then my friend said ''i got it'' and he wrote Acroh (which did not work but he added a 0 instead) it sounded cool so i went with it and i asked him why he chose that name and the reason for it was because i sounded (when he said it and its also the correct way to say it) ah-crow.

then i used that name for a long time but then at some point in time i changed to pc gaming and i did carry the name over. it was just that acroh was almost always taken when i wanted to name myself. then when i made a lol account i couldn't name myself acroh or acr0h so i was desperate for a name. i then put on 'TheBeast' and thats how this name came to be. (i actually got mocked because i was really bad at lol and then they thought 'thebeast' didnt fit me. now they think im a 'TheBeast' of osu! funny how things goes huh?)

also if you see me in chat then dont write the whole name in chat only acroh because its so much easier :)
Wakatteru
Needed a name that didn't have any connection to the last one I had. Whew.

The name came to mind after failing to complete Difficult stepcharts on Dance Dance Revolution A. Anna is the girl that is (hopefully) my avi.
IAmRelapse
I just wanted a name that sounds cool, and Relapse came to my mind and just added the "I AM" to it.
Jackertud
Came up with it when I bought an official Minecraft account on 2010. I just got the name Jack and then added some random syllables. I kept thinking "er" as it is a thought when trying to come up with a word to say, and so I ended it with a tud. I kind of regret the ending syllable, because people simply consider it to say turd. :lol:
Keep
My real name is like super long and complicated so people usually just call me kate but then in this one group chat. one of my friends tried to call me out but then it auto-corrected to keep so I was like "that's gonna be my new name now" and then I had to wait like 30+ days to rename.
ulrichfaniOSU
I came up with my name from my YT channel. But i wanted my name to be something related to osu! aswell so i just put in "ulrichfaniOSU". Sure people wonder where i got that name but its a long story anyway :P

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSz_sto0zuMzVb-YaGwW9fg
Sandy Hoey
My name came from a made up world me and some of my elementary school friends came up with. Don't ask any more, it gets wierd
Lyorek
A combination of the word "Lore" (which i love for whatever reason) and the name of a character from my favourite book series
Amaineko
brain cancer
Satalia
my mind :o
Pachiru
From a osu!map about a song that I misunderstood... I thought she said Pachiru ;-;
Akira Ishioka
Nattsun
Touhou. I just like Cirnos personality, a character designed to be a punchingbag, what can be more appealing?
Bobbles
Well, I took my Minecraft IGN "Bobbles" and added "OwO" after it
AnimatedAndy
Cloudy cause I like cloudy days + Kino because of this stupid guy from Maplestory
Comfy Slippers
well.. i like my slippers
LEMEME123
My enjoyment of meme
kai99
i think it came from nintendogs my first dog was named kai...
maybe im the dog idk
but i likey
Pochacco
changing IGN too much so i decide to go with this...

basically a fan of sanrio series and this was my favorite character of the whole dear aside from Dear Daniel
Hai Tai
$ko^zvl*xH7b9hDRxi_4Tx^OIbq4xL2c
Axel
Well.. Its my real life name!
Ton_old_1
Im friends with fantasy, so yolo
Tohru of Shadow
I was hardcore P4 garbage when I created this account, so that's where this mess of a username came from ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
MAGNIFIA
I'm a competitive gamer by nature

I use MAGNIFIA for every online games I played and excelled at

MAGNIFY THE INVINCIBLE AND ALMIGHTY

That's pretty much about it
Megumj
I have choosen my username, cuz my real name is Gerard. And some people call me: Geertje. So actually is that the reason for it. XD
Tophat Pigeon
One day i was just googling random pictures of random things until i somehow got to googling 'birds in hats' and i came across a very cool forum.
This forum had many many pictures of birds in hats, as the name implies, I really really loved the pigeon in the tophat, plus I was also in need of a name change on steam so from that point on I decided that 'Tophat Pigeon' was going to be my name.
(Don't know why im replying to posts that are 2 years old :P)
NestLover
from a game called Dragon Nest Online
i love thats game.
AlienSushi
Well. I was 13 when I made it, BUT I LOVE SUSHI, &&' I don't fucking know where I got the "alien" from :o
Taj
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AltoPelado
Gonzo from The Muppets :V
Kondou-Shinichi
google translate
Keiger
I honestly don't know how i came up with this, i think i thought of the word surrealism, then got rid of the ism and added an Its i guess
lol
:)
Shaper
I was looking for a clean, simple name because my previous name(s) in general were a huge mess. Anyways, I saw this name being used on some Call of Duty 4 server, I immediately liked it and sticked to it.
Rhein Kraft
Well, my username was NaruAyase2195. It had "NaruAyase" without spaces since it came from Naru Ayase from Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live.


And I put 2195 for some reason...just because I felt nostalgic about the first NT build of Windows, which is Windows 2000 build 2195...


And yeah, I'd just stick with it until I can think of the username change for now.
My Angel Kitten
because i love cat and catgirls
Kyujuroku 96
The yugioh card Number 96: Dark Mist and one of the main antagonists of Yugioh Zexal, pretty much because after finishing the anime is the only number I can write and pronounce
sleampy
When I was younger (2012 or so?) I would watch a lot of the Minecraft let's plays on Youtube (cringy I know..) and there was a guy in one of them called "neonninja" so I just kinda stole his name as my own. Yeah, pretty great story I know.
gaming epic
Honestly, i don't even know where it came from. Me and my friend were searching for a good main username for me and he came up with it. Should ask him where he got it from though. I'm pretty curious too.
Nanonii
So it was a name of this Echo(from Pandora Hearts) rip-off OC i made when I though that nanonii was a coolieo nickname. I used that as my Osu user and I kinda wanna change it cause heck I have too many online aliases.
WingSilent
Mine came from a keys combinations of my keyboard, right-left-righ-left
Kujar3
I didn't come up with my username myself, it also doesn't mean anything really. From my understanding it's also a name used in some foreign countries so eh. in 8th grade my friend invited me into an online game "bitefight" (terrible game but we didn't know any better :P), I was strougling with my character's name, chose a vampire. Out of nowhere my friend was like "why not Kujar" so I went with it. I made a friend in game called "Kraven2", we became good friends so I renamed to "Kraven3", on my second character I went with "Kujar3" and that stuck with me for well... like 10 years now. I use this username in any community ever since.
DJ Enetro
Ok. First post in G&D, feel honored.

Anyways:

There's this game based on browsers but playable on mobile called Neptune's Pride: Triton. Back then I was using the name "Pentagonizer" (portmanteau) as my real name. Wanted to have a different username though, it was taken by someone else.
One day I decided to make an alias: my username. Enetro is a corruption of "entropy", but I put the DJ to make it sound cool, like DJ TOTTO and others
hope my posts will be quality enough
Neitel
Well it was totally created from my mind, just think some nickname that is weird and that nobody has it and ready xD
Kongou_San
Kancolle my favorite character :D
Dustytuft
My real name
Ryoid
Hmm Let me think..........................cant think of anything
it just pop up on my brain thats all
burningapple
i burned an apple
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