What does "ATSUOVER" even mean?

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Music:
Airport Lounge - Kevin MacLeod
It's Raining Somewhere Else - UNDERTALE
Mad Trick - Mr Kimy
Trophy Gallery - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
All of Me (Instrumental) - Shadow the Hedgehog
The Hideout - Hi-Fi RUSH

[@mrgoopsrevenge]

i dont wanna talk about it

[@ThemostUNoriginalever]

Please do

[@Yourlocalwordrobe]

do it

[@GooberInternet]

were you taking a shit when you came up with it

[@OrangezLanternz]

Do it Please

[@inskilled2950]

LOL

[@raggamufin1896]

atsuover is one of the most creative names i’ve seen on the internet tbh.

[@knifuette]

a little off-topic (not really but wtv) but i really like ur username! ^^

[@V22.]

yeah

[@Estrellitarcoiris]

Yep

[@Heli-draws]

True

[@raggamufin1896]

@@knifuette OH M G’Z THANK U SO, MUUUCH!!! URS IS SO CUTEEE!!!

[@zayne5914]

Most informative 3 minutes about delicate, fragile, and maybe triggering context. Absolute liquid gold. 10/10. Bravo.

[@IsaacGarcia-j4j]

Name stealer

[@Vinyknobs]

me personally, vintage doorknob

[@walterhartwellwhite2988]

Nice.

[@Nate_The_Crab]

I had a phase where i was really into horseshoe crabs, and one neat fact about horseshoe crabs is that they aren’t actually crustaceans, but are arthropods more closely related to scorpions and spiders. So my username has been the same since :)

[@gangsterman5590]

aw thats cool asf

[@johndoes_art]

Hey thats pretty awesome

[@Sour_Kandi]

That's so cool!!!!

[@Berry_Benderson]

Cool username. Weird phase though.

[@KingstonK17]

i wasnt expecting to learn anything in this comment section, but thanks

[@drachenknight21]

deepest lore

[@TheJustForFunDude]

This is so true

[@pwntixx]

word

[@YAIXOURN]

How did you post this an hour before this existed???

[@qihuang6610]

why is this posted so early

[@TheOriginallRedPlayer]

YOU DIDNT EVEN WATCH THE VIDEO YET BROOOOOO

[@InfraredScale]

It's somewhat comforting to see so many other people insecure about their names, I use a lot of different names on a lot of different platforms and I'm not comfortable with any of them :P Scale both refers to the musical term "scale" and the scales of a dragon, a red dragon being the channel's mascot. I like the color red and themed the channel around it, but "Infrared" sounds much cooler than just red so here we are

[@e_shy1]

This one has a pretty big origin. So, this all originated from my mom. In a couple of ways. She was the one who gave me my middle name, Yishai (pronounced e - shy). You can see where this is going. When I started playing Roblox, I was only a guest. But when they removed guests, I was forced to make an account. I had trouble figuring out a name and how to sign up for that matter. I asked my mom to help me sign in. Obviously, you have to choose a username, so I asked my mom to help me figure that out as well. She had the brilliant idea of making my username e_shy. That account got hacked, so I created a new one called e_shy1. Once I started actually getting social, I gained a couple of friends who I really like. Before, people called me "e" cause it was the first letter of my name. Eventually, one of my friends started calling me "shy," and the name stuck.

[@interstellarnuggo]

Ive had many usernames over the years but this happened to be the one that ended up sticking, but surprisingly, this name has plentiful lore behind it. So it all started when one Christmas my mom got my brother a metal poster thing that had pictures of nuggets on it with the words "Nugs Not Drugs" printed on it. I found that funny so I made it my playstation username. When Among Us started reaching its peak I was playing it, and I came up with the name Nuggo and always used it as my name in Among Us. Around the same time, I started a Minecraft SMP that I called NuggoSMP (and got a minecraft user that had nuggo in the name around that time) Finally, my youtube channel name was JacksonAnimates for a handful of years, and one day like 2 years ago I decided it was time to change it. I've slways had a fascination for space things so I wanted to have a word that represented space in my name, a word i thought would be cool. I also wanted Nuggo in the name because I started using it everywhere else. Thus, the InterstellarNuggo username was born!

[@Mptzae]

that's pretty cool

[@eltanqueegocentrico]

Un loreee

[@obed9889]

i aint readin allat

[@cirnotheartist]

all i read was up until "I found that funny so I made it my playstation username." and remembered that my sister has THE SAME EXACT POSTER.

[@lenny_5414]

i aint reading allat

[@Soundbox3214]

In high school I would practice beat boxing and making sfx with my voice a lot, often to the annoyance of others. One day during band camp, a fellow percussionist and I walk past each other while I was making said weird noises, and he said to me "You're just a sound box". It stuck to the point where a few years down the line I had friends who referred to me as Soundbox more often than my real name. I replaced the Os for Øs a few months back so I would stop being confused with others by the same name, and here we are.

[@Asytto]

Nice

[@johndoes_art]

W name

[@kindofhuman8147]

I was really into carykh’s Ten Words of Wisdom series when I was both younger and when that series wasn’t a one episode per year thing. I thought he would eventually make a season two, and in that case I wanted to join, and have a book character who was all green. After finding a website that showed what color your book would be based on your name, I found out a name starting with “ki” got a green book, so after some thinking I came up with “Kind of Human”. I guess it means a bit more now but back then I just wanted to have a green book.

[@inzane101room]

Ayyyyy fellow BFDI fan?

[@kayk7moto]

object show fans r gonna love this

[@rainzikn675]

yo (twow fan real

[@GooberInternet]

fellow osc member based I wonder if Cary is actually gonna do a TWOW season 2 considering the first ""season"" is already done, but that's a different reply section for a different glass of milk.

[@rainzikn675]

@@GooberInternet The answer is probably not from him himself. TWOW took very long and seemed like it was taking a toll on him and how busy he was. I think we should let it be. But there's a community of miniTWOWing out there that is very active

[@Raine_Clouds]

can't wait for the official atsuover movie to release in 2040

[@creattor980]

2:35 Atsu with "i love you" and a heart, made my day

[@Z_ariTTy]

I basically was thinking of combining the names of "whitty and zardy" together and I got that. Over time it was a bit hard to pronounce to people but some people call me "artty" "Z" or "zarity"

[@dakrtnut1969]

Zardy :D

[@DaHatKid]

A Hat in Time. That’s it, that’s how I came up with this.

[@Jimjamuel]

Zitty

[@deethwarrior]

My handle is from a full world I made up when I was 12 (deeth) which has become an inside joke for most people who know me (rin is just my actual name and I change my username alot)

[@SneakTheOcto]

Alright, time for the epic Sneak lore: My named used to be Sneaky-Boi. This origin came from two things. The first was Splatoon 2, at which my main at this time was the Carbon Roller, which can either be used for absolutely aggressive Leeroy Jenkins style assaults or sneaking around and getting quick and easy stealth kills. You can probably guess which style I picked. The second part came from a stupid video where at some point the person said something of the lines of: “I gotta go undercover, like a sneaky boy!” The rest was history. I took those two words, turned boy into boi because humor and thus, Sneaky-Boi was born. At least until I discovered I was Non-Binary and like a corporation oversimplifying a logo it got cut down to Sneak! (Why did you read this my name is cringe and I am cringe and ahhhhHHHH-)

[@two_tone_bandit]

I think everyone is a little embarrassed by their handle, so don't sweat it.

[@Fizzginley]

I am also more than half these things. Non binary. Sneaky, cringe. And I also enjoy splatoon two. ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ

[@crymsonXyc]

not cringe! cool name!

[@RandomTheAnimatorThe3rd]

My user name used to be RiChRiCh73 but it’s so cringe I changed it to RandomAnimator but THEN I thought I could make it a little longer so now I’m RandomTheAnimatorThe3rd but people just call me Random

[@Fizzginley]

@@RandomTheAnimatorThe3rd at least it’s truthful. No big fat lies here.

[@VincentVanDoodle2022]

A co-worker saw me drawing and said "Ah, I've got the perfect nickname for you."

[@ItsPeepachu]

I like these sorta chill videos with the animation and stuff, hope you do more!

[@dustyhandz]

I actually went thru a tiny bit of name change, and trust me my past names were horrific and still give me first hand embarrassment, but the origin behind my current name "Tabificus" or "Tabificuz" when the first is taken, is simply- I wanted to name myself Corrosive but obv that was taken, so I just looked at what the word was called in other languages and I loved how it sounded in classic Latin soo, that's basically it. It's just the word corrosive in Latin!

[@johndoes_art]

Dude why is everyone so creative My names john and i do art. That is literally it.

[@dustyhandz]

@@johndoes_art i mean my name legit was "Endergamer3000" so like, sometimes being creative is not a good idea 😭

[@NoteBard]

Goddamn that's a great thought process! I just like music lol

[@dustyhandz]

@@NoteBard It's still really creative though! I like it

[@splatteredwithink]

love the name lore, that’s sorta how mine kinda came to be for my handle- but it was because my art style for my sketches or whenever I wrote things was very extraordinary from everyone else, and it was messy in a good way (i’m also a SUPER clumsy and messy person.) so me being the messy person I am and my sketches and drafts were messy, so “splatteredwithink” was a good username/handle to have. I’m also a huge splatoon fan so that was great too-

[@Blu_Nova20]

This one actually has a pretty simple origin. So, I used to play the Forza Horizon series *a lot.* And I found this Google Doc full of manufacturer colors from multiple car companies. And I was scrolling through the Lamborghini colors and I saw one called "Blu Nova". I thought, "Hey, that wouldn't be a bad username." Now every one just calls me Nova.

[@AutumnLeaves_011]

How I came up with my name, Autumn: so kind of a backstory of an old name I liked, it was "Yellow Ivy". At the time I really liked yellow and green so I wanted to come up with a name that showed that. I asked myself, "What's the first word I think of when I hear the word green?" and the first word was Ivy. I thought, "Yellow Ivy...... I like it" so I just chose that. That was my old online persona name for like 2 years, but that was 4 years ago. Now with the name Autumn, around the beginning of 2022 I was trying to look for a new name that fit me more than the name I was going by at the time since im trans(im gender fluid, they/them pls)and at the time I identified as bisexual and was watching a lot of bisexual tiktok compilations on KZbin and some of them were saying how Fall is a bisexual season and literally because of that I called myself Autumn. Now my sexuality is unlabeled for the most part(queer is fine I guess fo my sexuality if I had to choose a label), but even though now I'm no longer bi the reason why I still use that name is because I feel that it reflects my gender expression accurately. So I basically use my actual name added with the word Leaves at the end. The End.

[@4PPLEC0RE]

ive gone through lots of usernames. typically they’ve related to my interests: e.g., creeperbuilder or even the dreaded mrs_iida. this one came about one day when I was tired of honeyapple_xml, since it was partly based on fnf and I wasn’t into it anymore. i had decided on a little play on words: the -core is both a reference to different names of aesthetics (like “cottagecore”) and also just.. the core of an apple. because I like apples. creative, i know

[@awpulz]

apple

[@Zer0butReal]

I'm going into the depths of my brain for this (you asked for this Atsu) My username was originally "Agent 0", because I really liked splatoon and I had an OC named Neon who of course I had to put somewhere in the storymode, and to avoid any possibilities of names like "Agent 5,6,7" ect, I came up with 0, because who would choose that? Eventually I got out of my major splatoon phase and changed the spelling to "Agent Zer0", as if it was a normal name (and it also fits with the lore of my character). And after that, I didn't like having to type agent, so I just went to Zer0. TLDR: Splatoon oc name that expanded into a non-splatoon character

[@saturniidspectre]

Reminds me of Zer0 from Borderlands 2. Excellent game, I highly recommend the series.

[@somethingforsenro]

the funniest part is that agent 0 isnt even that uncommon in splatoon ocs nowadays

[@Zer0butReal]

@@somethingforsenro which is ironic because I found that out right after I changed the character

[@lxrdofthegame]

I used to be on Google+ ALOT and during it's last few years of existence I had met someone that was a real fan of Death Grips. Wanting to impress them, I listened to the entire Death Grips discography. Even though I didn't really like tha majority of their songs, I was a big fan of the song Lord of The Game from their album Exmilitary and thought the name sounded cool. So, I stuck with it and it's been this ever since.

[@pinkpelswag]

Buckle up, this is going to take a while. My original username was actually RevolutionarySquarePills, which I got from a small background detail from a Vocaloid song, specifically Left Brain Right Brain by Wonderful Opportunity. Then, to make things a little more unique, I made an OC to go with my username, which is the little guy you see in my pfp. Her codename was “pinkple square” for a while (she was originally a shade between pink and purple), until one of my friends misspelled “pinkple” as “pinkpel”. The name stuck, and now I’m Pinkpel. Edit: I hate to be that person, but HUILESNJILFESHIHLFES WHEN DID THIS BLOW UP???? THX FOR THE LIKES??????

[@hartenny]

just gonan put mine ehre so my comment doesen't get DROWNER in the multiple others ou tthere. Hartenny was something i came up with while trying to make a new steam username,something with an -y at the end would fit me,cuz,i'm in the OSC and all that..

[@Splat56]

Hi Pinkpel, I’m My Name

[@georgiagalaxy]

I like your name :) is very cool

[@Geekster1984]

I'm a geek, and 1984 is the release year of my favorite movie, ghostbusters. Now i'm Geekster1984 wherever you wanna find me. i am incognito with account names in some places, however...

[@Splat56]

@@Geekster1984 heh heh heh, same

[@Jacalliope]

I'm gonna be completely honest. I was debating with a friend, I came up with Arcane because I wanted something similar to my old one "Arcadia/Arcaiac" and thought Arcane was close enough and then I- I just stuck my OCs name "Creation" at the end and called it a day

[@pickleking4113]

My username name comes from a children book story from Austria. I had to make a whole hand made illustrated book for class and i chosed that one, it grew a lot on me since it was the first time i ever feel really proud of my work and abilities as an artist, merits that were not to visible for me back then. The book is called "me importa un comino el rey pepino" (i use the Spanish translation cuz it just bangs more tbh) wrote by Christine Nöstlinger.

[@zombathinlostleghackercat5233]

Nice seeing you again, EnergeticShadow. I will call you that from now on.

[@lyrchr]

I went through ALOT of name changes, but for this one, "lyrchr", I wanted a more unique name than my prior "oUNiVERSEz" which is just "UNiVERSE" but I had to add "o" and "z" to the end because of how many people obviously want the name universe. So I went plotting with a few words, at first I was thinking of the word "Lurk" not super uncommon but not really common either, so I knew some people wanted the name, then I thought of "Lurch" and thought 'Now we're getting a little less common!' but, obviously, Lurch is taken so I was like, okay well I really like lurch so lemme see if there are different ways to spell it that sound like it, so I checked "Lyrch", that was taken, okay, how about "Lurcher", probably already taken too, "Lyrcher" taken... I then said, 'Lemme remove the e..' "Lurchr" ... 'taken..' "Lyrchr" *DING DING DING* name not taken! I check every other platform, the name is available everywhere, even on twitter and roblox, which caught me by surprise. And that's how I got my name

[@Birth0fVenus]

I went through a LOT of name changes. But ever since i've gotten into mythology and space I chose the name Venus. I thought it was pretty nice since it has the connections of 2 things I like :3

[@EzraNexus]

Venus and nexus is kinda same lol

[@lazypotato3642]

my calico cat is named Venus too, what a coincidence :0

[@Silvarrus]

My old username used to be Vampiel, back when Damphir wasn't officially recognized as meaning "Half Vampire". I got Vampiel from some high school friends who noticed I had an extra tooth over my right canine, a larger canine that loomed over it. So I was Vampiel to them, or half vampire. It eventually got shortened to Vamp or Piel, depending on who it was that was talking to me. Being randomly called Piel by people who know the older tag in newer groups is... Hilarious, to say the least. "Why are we talking about banana peels?"

[@devilheartcandy]

Lol that’s cool. I remember I’d always give my ocs vampire fangs because I never see canines being drawn on characters lol

[@tea1322]

HAHAHAH the banana peel one 😭😭

[@certifiedsillystring]

brainstorming then I went “I like silly………. Sillystring…” I slapped a certified at the beginning and I was set

[@qtiIIq]

Yay the lore finally finally dropped!!!! Great video as usual anne!! Oh btw my name origin? I slammed my keyboard 15 times and just made something out of it lol

[@rengumu6156]

Ah, internet nicknames, somehow if they are the most common thing you ever saw in your life, they still can surprise you out with their origin. Really cool video, Atsu, as always! That's reminds me of how I've ended up with my current art name - ReredRAM. All started back in 2015 I think, when I've wanted to change it for something more cool than just my warrior cat sona name, Oak. Then I've stumbled upon a well known thing as Undertale, oh yeah, this fandom has basically gave me a large push to socialise and draw more. Sooner or later i've found that theory that claims if you swipp swap letters in name Asriel Dreemurr it will spell serial murderer, and I was like "woah, that's so cool, i wanna do that too!", but instead of making something same cool as that, i've just reversed same thing and got my new art name, Reredrum Laires, I've really liked it a lot, since it looked cool, and laires part almost sounded like my pal's name from that time, Larens. It was like it until 2019, when I've decided that this nickname is too large and shortened it to just ReredRAM, and almost immediatly came up with the maskot - anthropomorphic ram with sweater, that had a ram steak patch on it, basically 2 jokes in one - a real ram and a rare ram steak. And as a amage I've gave a long ears to my maskot, same as Asriel had, to point to a true origin to that wacky nickname.

[@bestuan]

thats a cool nickname

[@Dunkkong]

Listening to a podcast when they came to the topic off mythical creatures. Someone said they wanted their own. Their creature was named “the mooseman” and it got me thinking: hey, I’m Swedish, our national animal is a Moose (or elk) so it would be a really good name since it was a little connected to my country. On that day i changed my name from the comic character spawn6878 to themooseman

[@FGC_Koal]

Koax was actually the first ever in game room ID that began my interest in the competitive scenes for fighting games. I honestly just found it catchy, so now I stick by it with some variations such as Koaxial, Koalicious, and just Koa as well

[@StarSpawnMusic]

I have 2 main handles. Star Spawn is a moniker riffing on my name meaning star. It was originally Star Child but that seemed a bit generic and Star Spawn seemed a bit more Lovecraftian. The perfect name for me to release music under. My other username most places is Business Hippie (or riffs on that depending on name requirements) and I got it because I have long hair, stoner demeanor, and a love of wearing formal clothing.

[@seaodette]

I had a big obsession with swans when I was younger because of Swan Lake. When my cousin got me into pokemon, I found about Swanna and how it was based off of Swan Lake and I loved this goddamn bird so much. It was added to the first name I came up with, my name having used to be Swannaswag (swag was added because it was like cool word to use at the time and it rolled off the tongue idk). I even created an OC based entirely on a Swanna and made them my sona. But after a few years passed, I thought I should start to think a better name for myself, as well as wanting to break the tie between my OC and pokemon and redesigning them to something more original. Going back on that Swan Lake bit, I decided to take the name "Odette" from the main character. The "sea" part is just because of the water type pokemon idk, I thought ocean stuff was cool and I couldn't think of anything special to add.

[@retroisfound05]

How I came up with Retro: I've always been interested in old video games on old consoles such as the NES, Sega Genesis, the DS, etc (especially the old Sonic games). I remember playing and enjoying said games when I'm just chilling at home during weekends. When I had to come up with a username, it just kind of hit me. It's gone through a couple of changes over time, but what didn't change was the inclusion of "Retro", because I found it to be unique, in a way. As of rn, my username isn't really all that special, but maybe that'll change someday.

[@Slicetheidiot]

wait what if you had like 404 instead of notfound kind of like page not found rather than the fact someone else took that name

[@retroisfound05]

@@Slicetheidiot Me, being the one who took that name lmfao Honestly, that's a nice suggestion, however, I really like the format of having 3 words as the name. It's a format I've kept pretty consistent throughout my name change

[@Seabs14790]

Your name is so #retro

[@Tack-hy5ci]

I just thought of a random object and thought of a thumbtack

[@cola3101]

so two crucial parts here, both discord related (revolting i know); firstly, a very old friend group server i had contained a "secret room" called the lounge and i consistently made jokes and references to there being a mini fridge present. i then, inspired by the simple concept, scoured the internet for days looking for snacks and drinks to import as emoji into the server, just for fun. i eventually landed on an EXTREMELY low resolution image of non-brand-specific "cola" that i thought was genuinely hysterical for the pure idea of it, and imported it immediately. bonus lore is that i have since managed to get it added to several other public servers via means of *asking nicely* part two: i had a bit of trouble coming up with an identity on discord, and would frequently switch up my username to random meaningless nonsense. but one day i decided to hop on the bandwagon of the "CEO of..." trend of usernames, and thought back to that goofy ahh cola emoji. it was perfect. as if fate had alligned specifically for my stupid shenaniganry. "CEO of Cola" it was for a while. i even took time to make a dumb OC to match the new brand, as pictured in my icon here and almost everywhere else. unfortunately that rendition of the name didnt stick for all that long, and i had changed it numerous times for more shenanigans. when i decided to permanently rebrand, i couldnt part with the charming character that i had created, nor the simplicity, memorability, and iconic nature of what i already had, so, finally accepting that i am not and never will be the corporate leader of a business enterprise, i ditched "CEO of" and the rest is history. blue skies and a potential legal dispute with the coke company lie ahead for good ol' non-brand-specific Cola.

[@z143p]

A few years ago (2020 quarantine time) I was driven down the rabbit hole of anime and Danganronpa. Being a silly little middle schooler, I liked the Japanese word for despair, zetsubou, because it kinda sounded cool. So, I used that as a username for a while and replaced some of the letters with numbers. After a bit, like maybe about a few months, I got into the MCYT and Dream SMP side of things (cringe ik). On a stream, I forgot who it was, he ended at 1:43:00 and I read somewhere that "143" meant "I love you" and I thought that was pretty cool. I eventually incorporated the 143 into my user, taking the z out of zetsubou, and out came z143!!!!

[@axer101hasleft]

What about the "p"...

[@z143p]

i just added that because "z143" was unavailable 😔@@axer101hasleft

[@gooseiscool93]

ZETSUBO NO SHIMA COD ZOMBIES BRAZZZZZZY

[@mateuszkrytyk5711]

you couldnt waterboard that shit out of me, why the fuck would you watch deam smp, even shit I did in middle school wasn't that low

[@mr.parakeet7977]

Parakeets have always been the animal I associate with most (energetic, empathetic, loud... kind of annoying) and the entire concept of me just being a parakeet in human form has always stuck with me. Sometimes I combine it with my name (which is honestly just the second half of parakeet but spelled different) to make it Parakeat!

[@Sutski-en1nm]

Yeah, I had the same mentality as you Atsuover, like, fr. Ok, so, when I was a baby lil goober who had just discovered how to draw anime, yes, I named my characters random stuff ( I used to make copied fnaf characters, lmao) so, my first character that would represent me would be "Annie the cat" (yeah dumb) bcuz I was obsessed with sonic. then Jen, and afterward other stuff, but i made a character called "Suski" and I was like, "DAIUM" so I decided to add a T in the name, making it "Sutski"! and yeah, my character sutski had MANY BUT MANY changes, until now (tho in my channel i have like nothing cuz I'm preparing everything for my journey, yay). Yes, i love animating, gaming, drawing, making music (i love FNF too) but i haven't posted anything but gacha stuff, because i do it for fun! and i'm making a series called "Studk in 2D" and it's tough for me to get voice actors and other... I love your music, i listen to it every DAY! you also inspired me a lot! So yeah! Thanks! Bye!!

[@Scrufus]

I remember seeing mr. scruff - ninja tuna on a windows 7 and was like "wow it would be very original if i just took the word, removed the last f and put "us" at the end"

[@sanguine1038]

i remember i went through a phase where i was just depressed about everything and i just had a time where I made that who I was. i also looked up synonyms for words to come up with names so “Cynical Boy” eventually happened and after going through life a bit more i realized i was not just a depressed person with nothing to do, so i looked up antonyms for cynical and sanguine showed up. i don’t remember where 1038 came from though

[@StarrylaGata]

Quería cambiarme el apodo que tenía de pequeña, así que quise buscar una palabra relacionada a las estrellas (obvio en inglés porque jaja inglés suena mejor) y encontré Starry, que combinaba con el de mi hermana "Flowery". Si, solo fue desde un diccionario 🗿

[@UnusualKillerd]

I came up with killerd WAY back when I was young and playing a little old mobile game called Call of Mini zombies. Since then I've stuck with it and edited it.

[@darsterz]

ever since i had those realisations about myself I've been trying new names and i think dar resonated with me the most, previously some friends knew me as ster/sterling and then i kinda decided to combine both for a twt account. turns out darster was taken so i had to add a z at the end bc z is a cool letter

[@NecroticNightshade]

I think I came up with the earliest version of my username/persona back in 2018. Back then my 'sona was basically a fusion of two of my OCs, one of them being named Nightmare at the time. Somehow I landed on the name Nightshade for the fusion and just ended up using the design as a placeholder 'sona for a good while. As for the Atroppa part, it's literally just from me misspelling/mispronouncing 'atropa belladonna', aka the Latin name for deadly nightshade. Slapped it on the front of my username and uh... yeah. Rest is history, as they say.

[@thatweirdo35]

Ohhh, my username also had 2 phases. So when I was younger, I had this oc based on a dragon from a mobile game I really liked. The dragon's name was supposed to be Blaze, but since my 8yo brain didn't know english, I decided to play the game in poorly translated russian, and his name was simply Fire ( Ogon'/Огонь). I decided to femmify and make the name more namelike and I got Agnia (Агния). At the age of like 10 I wanted to have an account on KZbin, and that's where the username agnia_dragon came from. ...But then I realized I was actually a guy. I didn't really have to think that much, I've always been the weirdest kid out there, so thatweirdo it is. Not really creative, but still :)

[@novastyleaces]

This one’s was kinda dumb and funny when I think about it. Me and my basketball crew used to always have this one collective hallucination where we would always imagine someone doing parkour while running next to our car while driving. So we all just called it a collective hallucination. When I spoke to them about it while we were talking about our . We all agreed that we had all seen it. So as good basketball player fade away a we’re kinda my thing and it was a re-oncurring gag that I’d make it seem like my opponent was hallucinating that I had the ball with me as I faded away and performed my layup. You can see where this is going. So I just decided to call myself the collective hallucination cause they were collectively seeing me disappear before their eyes like I wasn’t real. Which actually links in with my profile picture.

[@ReimondoCortexalotl]

So basically I originally used to go by "Neuro669" way back then and years later when I looked at my channel name, I thought to myself "Why and how did I come up with this name?" So I pretty much got to thinking and I thought hard about it in the process - and thanks to my sketch skills I inherited from my grandfather, this could be possible too. So I got to sketching (I used Nina Cortex from Crash Bandicoot as the base of it and altered it) and it was taking all of my brainpower and effort to come up with everything in the process. It was 1AM in the morning, I was tired and I wrote "CORTEX" on the side of it but didn't write the first name - so when I wake up in the morning and see it, something in my head just popped up and I wrote next to it "Raymond Cortex". I used my late uncle's name and a brain function, and combined them together as one name which was somehow genius to me - I don't know how I came up with it if it wasn't for me thinking about my uncle's name in the first place but it just kinda stuck since then and it became iconic for a long time. Pretty much don't know how to end it there 😂😭💀

[@TheJustForFunDude]

This will truly change every generation following this monumental moment.

[@TheJustForFunDude]

JustForFun ended up being a name i decided to use bc i felt like Just a Normal Dude was much too common (JustForFun is still used by other people, though i don’t see it as much compared to JaND)

[@static_mess]

i was a big fan of alliteration when I was younger, and I really liked drawing big blocky s', so I went with SlashSlayer at first, then added a .15 at the end, and then I changed it to SinnerSlumber, but now I changed it to Static Mess (which isn't reflected in this current name at the time of writing this), which is just due to the fact that I started to use a TV Head as an oc.

[@gallantbug6542]

I always used Bug in my old one, so I merged the word “Gallant” with it. Turned out good imo

[@Regal_Goose]

I got really into creating my online identity a few years ago, and at that point I was really enjoying Untitled Goose Game and started calling myself Goose King . Little did a young egg me realise the identity struggles I would soon undergo, and Goose "King" started feeling detached from me entirely, so I tried a couple different words to convey that sort of royalty, and it stuck. Fast forward to now and most of my friends just call me Goose, and in a way I've connected more and more to it over the years. I don't think there's anything else use by now.

[@thedocevary]

While my username doesn’t have much backstory, it does come from an old memory of mine, 1, the “TheDoc” part of my username actually comes from older notes I wrote of an SCP story using 049, the “Plague Doctor”, and 2, the “Evary” part comes from an idea with an original character I made(and HEAVILY updated) named Sean Evary, an immortal 16 year old with wacky friends and family(and anyone who knows me personally knows a lot about the characters and project mentioned)

[@DoodleNutZ]

Really nice video! I love these kind of things where the origins come up from, it may sound silly, but I'm all for it! As for your request, I had about 3 names I can think of, one I won't say because my name is written on it, but it was a stereotypical 8 y/o name. In 2020 I went with Shadingbrush, I saw some names that included art material and said "Hmm, this sounds cool!", my sona's hair looked like a brush in a way and I wanted it to sound a bit obscure, getting "Shadingbrush" as...well, a shading brush! I stuck with that for a while, it evolved throughout 2021, changed first to Shadybrush and then to Shadybrush0 (at first the o was silent, but I changed it later because I found it easier to write). Then, mid 2022, I re-did my sona as a doodle guy, it allowed me to do funky faces and heads, I loved it. I thought my username seemed odd, it didn't quite catch my attention...so I seeked for a new name. I wanted it to sound a bit crazy, like "Crazy Doodle" or something, so I searched for synonyms of crazy. One of those was nut. It sounded good to me, it said what I wanted without being too obvious, it seemed perfect!...almost. Something about me didn't like it ending in "nut", it sounded dry and pale, so I added a Z at the end because of the expression "x went nuts". Z seemed more cool in a way for me, so DoodleNutZ is what I came up with!!...this turned out longer than I thought...

[@the_last_refrigerator]

I was getting into clash royale after many years of not playing it, and my old gamertag was already taken (by my old account). I had to do something original. Spaghetti came to mind, but that too, was already taken. I wanted it to have a ring to it, to be easily recognizable as me, and last of all, be simple. I thought of random words, I had always liked the word refrigerator, kind of long but easy to say and mildly random. And The Last to imply a backstory of war or something. The Last Refrigerator was born.

[@o0DreamCream0o]

So I am a lass of many names, but my name comes from the fact that my character (who is supposed to be based off ice cream cause I made a little character bases on the fact that I realised that i crave ice cream a lot in times of crisis) was named dreamy, they were a nice character so I redesigned them as my sona. Their name comes from the fact their design is based off a dreamsicle float also that they kinda aline to a semi dreamcore vibe. Dream and cream rhyme and also ice cream, and the os are supposed to be like soda bubbles (Tldr: i named myself this because I eat ice cream as a comfort food and that spiraled into my main oc)

[@SammoeStarling]

I've always been connected with the name "Sam" When it came to presenting myself online. Whatever username I picked, it would have "Sam" in it somewhere. But obviously "Sam" by itself isn't really iconic. However, I've always had this idea of a furry animated series named "ITMOE". I won't go say any more details for it as I want the series itself to be a big surprise when I make it but "ITMOE" was something I really wanted to commit to when I felt like I was ready. So I wanted to incorporate it into my name. Obviously "SamITMOE" Wouldn't work so I decided to get rid of the "IT" and I ended up with "SamMOE". And I ended up liking the sound of "Sammoe" So "Sammoe" is what I committed to. And the last name of "Starling" was inspired by my mom's writer's name being "Violet Starling"

[@StarberryCreetH]

Ayo tell us when the series is being made, I'd like to see that.

[@flameisatamewolf5868]

People focused of fnaf lore but here’s the real hardcore lore

[@Inuusak]

The username "Inuusak" came from an old user i used to have which was "Inu-Sak" which was obviously a reference to "Inu Sakuya" which i was obsessed over at the time because fumo is funny. inuusak is also a combination of the name "Inuu" which is my old user name "inu" with an extra "u" and "Inu-Sak" so uh yeah what great lore

[@tizielechicero9077]

Damn the lore so deep inside me

[@Chivecookies_domain]

I only ever had 3 username changes throughout my entire time. My current username was made during the first months of the pandemic, after online classes, I would go sit down in a pretty tight corner in our dining room and draw there, hence the "Little Spot" part. As for Jula, one of my classmates had sorta bad writing, their "y" looked like "a", so it kinda looked like they wrote July as Jula instead Also wanted to change my username because my previous usernames were made by my 11 year-old weeb self

[@luckysapphic]

Originally my username was Starwish82, named after a character in my favorite book series and my favorite number. Then I found out the word “starstruck” existed, and suddenly I wanted my username to be that. But I thought it was boring on its own, so I added the word “silent” (I guess young me just really liked the letter s). And then, recently, after going through a questioning of my gender and sexuality, I realized I was trans non-binary. The idea of changing my name really appealed to me, so I looked up some gender neutral names. One of them was Nova. I fell in love with the name, and started going by that. I then had the idea to change my username to include my real name, but I wanted it to be a normal username as well. And now I’m Supernova.

[@arson5533]

Funny enough it was a combination of two KZbin videos. The concept is from lazy purples “how it feels to play pyro” and the name it’s self from rockit gaming “Temperature”, when listening to it I was just kinda like “arson huh? Has a nice ring to it” and the 5 was for no particular reason, just looked complete with a single number at the end

[@LARADEKA]

Not only she had a heavy voice change (Because for the newcomers, she has a mutation that makes her voice deepen, mistaking her for a man), but the persona is from an old character she used to draw. *_And then I came up with a freaking cryptic persona now. But I can still look back at how I discovered the "Internet", and became... this._*

[@User.64938]

I thought she was a trans woman?

[@LARADEKA]

I think she was trans, if I remember. I only came to her channel during the time when I was in the Friday Night Funkin' community.

[@User.64938]

@@LARADEKA I’ve been a fan since energetic shadow, Anne was called Adrianne and make but decided to become a transgender woman and changed names to “Anne”

[@LARADEKA]

@@User.64938 That explains it. Thanks for the insight.

[@LARADEKA]

Genetic-wise (I meant in scientific means, which causes it. It's not considered as "mutation", but genetic-wise, it sounds like it). But she is transgender, as far as I remember. *_Otherwise... yeah, it's just that. Transgender out of will._*

[@AurumMostaza]

Son dos de los últimos nicknames que inventé hace unos años, ya que antes solía poner un nickname nuevo para cada cuenta que hacía. Mostaza y Aurumshy para dos juegos de celular. Al final quedó Aurum Mostaza y como ya estaba algo grande, terminé adoptandolo como mí apodo definitivo en internet.

[@zinqhq.]

0:19 cringe? those animations were my childhood 😭😭

[@TattletailPasta]

I was always a fan of that indie horror game, the one about all the killer furbies. Yknow, Tattletail. Around the same time, I was in a humongous Creepypasta phase. Back in 2020, my smartass put the two interests together. Here I am three years later !

[@AndTwo.]

finally, atsuover lore

[@leidubscover5860]

Eu mudei o meu nome de usuário recentemente para meu nome original, mas antes da mudança eu era chamado de "LeíDubsCover" pois o objetivo da criação do meu canal no KZbin era fazer dublagens por cima de outros áudios de desenhos animados, e eu coloquei Leí no início pois é meu nome do meio e também era o nome de um antigo profeta judaico que aparece no Livro de Mórmon, então como era um nome diferente da maioria, eu decidi usá-lo no início.

[@redbelmontoficial2537]

Br aqui?? Legal

[@aftsfm]

I used to mainly use "aftsfm" as my nickname, "aft" was short version of "Assassin from Teufort" and I just slapped "sfm" next to it, because I used to be an SFM animator. After a year or two I thought, "Assassin from Teufort" sounds too complicated, and I renamed myself to "Teufort Assassin", sometimes I also use "Teufort Spy" as a nickname, then I thought "tfsfm" doesn't sound right, people will think "TF" stands for "Team Fortress" so I still keep aftsfm as a tag to avoid the confusion.

[@NautilusMakesMusic]

I used to be obsessed with a rhythm game called 'Project Arrythmia' and the level Nautilus by ol666 had a fire song and a cool name, plus further looking into nautilus, its similar to nautical and the nautilus which is an animal. And I like da sea stuff. And yeah i got into music and music creation and just added makes music. And the alternative name NautilusSAI is nautilus and then Twenty One Pilots' newest album Scaled and Icy (SAI) so uh yeah

[@JustAnotherRandomYoutuber]

Mine is kind of odd, an moronic. I had heard that there would be the @ tags for usernames aside from the channel's actual name, so I thought it would be really funny if someone made one with "justanotherrandomyoutuber". For those wondering, "justanotherrandom" has been a prefix for most of my accounts because its easy to remember, oddly enough. Anyways, I had a massive video essay assignment that had to be posted on youtube, so I had to make a youtube channel. That's about it, really. It's an old username prefix and odd in-joke combined with opportune timing.

[@hrize]

I'm a big Steven Universe fan so I wanted the name to have connection with it. I was scrolling through some irl gems and loved how chrysoprase looked. Very green but also misty. I like green, so I decided to use that and after some machinations I ended up with Hrize. I guess Chrys also sounds cool but I didn't want to make the inspiration so obvious for some reason??? But yea

[@ghosttubegames2266]

I mostly use now GhostTin as my user, and the reason is pretty solid, I needed an account to a social media that I knew I won't have any chance of using my real name, it was discord, I put my favorite youtuber at the time (named JazzGhost), removed the Jazz, put only ghost, and after Tin, why? I don't know, I probably could't put just Ghost because was alredy taken, and I remember now, Ghost could mean someone is offline most of the time or just observing things without interacting, and I knew myself just enough to know that was me, now is not 100% true that part of meaning, and GhostTin, the last part, I didn't even bother to look up what that means at the time (I do not speak english as native language).

[@jc_art_]

I thought it was just "ITS SO OVER" but turned into one word

[@scale455]

My user? Not really much to it besides it's similar to yours. However, it is also my preferred transition name. The "hendrix" part was inspired by my awesome cousin @alphahendricks, because they were actually the first person who actually got me confident enough to be more comfortable being me. Thanks cousin!

[@BradyT-gg5]

‘Brady.T-gg5’ directly translates to ‘B.T. the geek girl of everything’ which is pretty self-explanatory and describes me being Into a wide variety of nerdy things. (seriously one minute I’ll be talking about triple expansion steam engines, and then the next im talking about what a Mac valve does.)

[@showyafriendz]

My friend and I spent months brainstorming and came up with this when we asked ourselves what we wanted from people when they saw our name

[@ultra7575]

Ultra was a common word that was used to describe lots of strange, powerful, or odd things that I happened to like in my youth so I started calling myself Ultra cause I liked the word a lot and eventually it kinda just ... Stuck now all my friends call me "ultra"

[@chaoticatom6150]

It started with me learning about Dnd and how i associated myself as a Chaotic Neutral being then i decided. Well I like chemistry and atoms... So ChaoticAtom. Just a ball of chaos ;P

[@Wyatt_1987]

I saw a meme video on one of Dawkos vids I think, idk but it had a breakdancing mini Vanny in it. I wanted that to be my profile pic. Then I was like "I CAN'T JUST HAVE IT AS MY PROFILE PIC, I NEED TO LEGALLY CHANGE MY NAME TO LIL VANNY TOO!" and so I did... LIL VANNY WAS BORN

[@NAT1COSiS]

its just a type of extinct sea snail that i turned into a graffiti tag 😭

[@otomototonomoto]

I have an otamatone and love playing my dumb little beep-boop instrument. When I showed my friends and my family none of them could pronounce the name of it. I ran with that and I really like it, and now I can’t even pronounce my username lol

[@radioactivecat6119]

I had an obsession with fanart where people would draw like radioactive characters and then I just put cat at the end and called it a day

[@KessokuBassist]

I play a lot of bass, right, and I'm kind of a loner, so, there you go.

[@thecalciumnumberfren]

I had gotten into homestuck and I was trying to think of a trolltag for myself, I was thinking of random names and came across the start “skele” then it made itself from there. After that I was making a refrence to Spider-Man.

[@a-teacup-with-golden-cracks]

Trauma 👍 My identity was broken and I've slowly been reforming it and only recently have I started feeling whole again. The name is a reference to the practice of kintsugi, where broken china is mended with gold to give it new beauty

[@teenspider]

So me, my brother, and my cousin decided to come up with a team name in Minecraft. My brother and/or my cousin decided to go with "TeenMobs" (Yes, that is not a typo.) We'd go with whatever mob from Minecraft we liked best and since I liked Spider-Man, I decided to go with the spider mob, and thats it!

[@lottaspice6070]

Bro why are these videos so FUCKING FUNNY, im foaming from the mouth

[@GabetheWarrior8]

Back then Minecraft story mode was huge and when I wanted to make my own Minecraft user name I thought about calling myself Gabriel The Warrior but people wouldn't like the name because it was already taken so my brother said if you want this name you gotta add something else so it doesn't sound the same and thus we got to brainstorming and then we came up with one Gabethewarrior8 it was perfect and since tattletale games went out of business this has been my name ever since and the rest is history

[@PrivateEyesGuy]

I came up with my username “Private eyes guy” because of this selfie I took of myself depicted with my hand made beanie and some sunglasses I got at a food event, both of which happen to conceal my eyes. The “private eyes” part comes from the Hall and Oates song of the same name. It’s been my personal handle for the past three years.

[@alagonthesnail]

literally me just putting my name into a login just like you with sonic, but the thing spat out a completely mangled version of my name I guess because so many people had already taken the others, and I just kinda slipped the letters it gave me together into a coherent name, and now I just hope and pray nobody else has this name IRL. Side note, a popular youtuber made a video about "alogon", which means unutterable, and is 1 letter off my username, so now I feel kinda famous (and more people are registering accounts with my username!!!)

[@user-sonicsolosgoku]

I know it was 5-6 years ago but u made the saddest story ever about an EXTREMELY nice guy

[@madcat_4523]

I'm pretty sure it was because one of my cats are constantly angy, and I made it when I was ~10 yrs old... and now its just kind of a f it we roll situation lol

[@bonbon-totaldigiama3177]

Hmmm...Part of my name definitely came from me being a fan on the Total Drama series and Digimon. Contrary to what some people may believe I actually did NOT get the BonBon part from Fnaf. I picked the name I think right before the game came out. Im not exactly sure why I chose that, could be because rabbits are one of my favorite animals.