What's the story behind your username?

I don't have to say much. If you know the song, you know. One group: Black Eyed Peas

i grew up with older tech (and by that, i mean older than what the "cool kids" were keeping up with). i've learned to appreciate the limitations of the tech i had, and was fascinated with pushing the boundaries of what i had. the first phone i've ever browsed the internet through was a nokia 6230i that i yoinked from my mom when i was around 7 years old i believe (i still keep it), and since then i've been tinkering with old phones.

one day i came across the nokia 6600 and thought "hm, that phone in particular resonates with me. i feel like i should adopt it as my identity."

and that's how i'm here today lol

Saffron is the closest thing I've seen to a good name for me.

The story behind my username isn't very long :/. I've been using it for a little less than five years. Before this one, I used a different username, but I'm slowly abandoning it...

I created this username shortly before officially starting my transition. It's a combination of my new girl name, Kari*** (secret for safety :P), and Shiba Inu, the dog breed, because I really like them :3
The numbers don't have any deep meaning; they're just random numbers :P.
I use numbers like this in my usernames so I don't include too much information.

so me and my friends decided to make awful soundcloud rap album for funnsies, the idea was that we would completely improvise it. so in the heat of the flow i came up with the most ridiculous and stupid name: MC BIG BALLS

i have swag (allegedly)

I made my account around Thanksgiving day and I was the person that was in charge of making the candied yams. Candied yams are my favorite Thanksgiving food so I named my account after it

unsummering is the name of a song from an artist i rlly like named r. missing :) the song plays on my profile so if anyone likes electronica then def check them out !!

My "career" as a musician started accidentally, doing just shitpost and ruining other people's music without the intention to make actual music. So I wanted a nickname that was self-descriptive and fully anonymous, not telling anything about me as a person. I then though of the default artist name some audio players shows when opening audio files that has no name in the tags, "Unknown Artist", and so "Unknown Pseudoartist" was the most fitting and clever I could think of.

Against all odds thanks to the practice on ruining songs I kept learning a lot about actual music production, arranging, etc and eventually became an actual musician and became capable of even composing my own music and more. But still using the same nickname from my shitpost beginnings just because it's fun.

reading everyones makes me realise mines rly childish, buuut i honestly thought this user was super "swag" or something, the day i made it the musical "dead girl walking" (i think thats the name) was stuck in my head, also the rebL part was influenced by this, the random spelling was another "swag" thing. on other platforms i usualy use my firt name and the first letter of my last followed by a number or weird spelling, but if im trying to be annonimous its usualy a combo of "local...." or "ur...."

i always felt like i was alienated from most people even though we do the same things, feel the same things, do the same things.

i feel like my ideas and desires are kinda different from most people, and that makes me a bit of an outcast in most social spaces, not to the point where i get rejected but the point where people just don't understand me or relate to me in any way.

that is why i keep creating this identity of being "unknown yet familiar" like an animal you haven't discovered yet. that is why i put the name "foreign" in the front.

that same feeling of being disconnected derives from my rejection of popular natural desires. (such as dating, sleeping, consuming.) not as in not feeling them, but not WANTING to feel them. i really wish human desires just weren't a thing, because to me they are a burden. but yet i still am an animal like anyone else. just a mammal.

unknown yet familiar, just like a foreign mammal.

pls don't take this as cringy, i dunno how to express these feelings without sounding corny.

Those are some awesome, interesting replies!

The kind I was hoping for ^^!

display name: my name is randall

username: its a line from the author notes in my immortal

My friend put me onto the Armored Core franchise and I got into it really quickly. In Armored Core V theres a character named Rosary and I thought it just sounded really cool lol

yk kajiu paraside? the roblox version of changed? I like the lore for the creatures and would play them as the lore intended. the user lore accurate kinda stuck with me so ya. that story haunts me ://

I have an original character that I've had for a long, long time named Alpha who I always used as a sort of fill-in or representation of myself. The character name Alpha has become my own pseudonym at this point. 
My username pretty much everywhere else is alphashadow or some variation of it because the character Alpha has dark powers, and alphashadow sounds cool.

I love cryptids! I'm also unfortunately a country boy and will forever know all the lyrics of Take Me Home, Country Roads. 

i use "enfants terribles" bc my fav band named an album like that (i rlly like this album)

i use "enfants terribles" bc my fav band named an album like that (i rlly like this album)

>>Nokia 6600

IS THIS THE REAL NOKIA 6600?? PLEASE BE MY FRIEND