Mass Interview: Stories Behind a Username

"My username is ScratchStang. Stang is a made up word from a long time ago and sounds really cool. I wanted my username to be just Stang but it was already taken so I added Scratch to it."

@ScratchStang

"My username, -TotallyEpic-, is pretty straightforward, and means what you'd expect: Totally Epic. Woohoo for creativity. Anyway, I picked that username because it described what I wanted to do, which was make projects that would make people say, "Wow, this is totally epic." Whether or not I've succeeded at that goal yet is debatable, but I'm defiantly always trying to live up to my name."

@-TotallyEpic-

"I chose my username before I started Scratch; when I was about 9 years of age I thought of the nickname soulslayer as it sounded kinda cool and it was what my friends at the time called me, and to this day I have not grown out of that nickname and chose it as a username as it is nostalgic and symbolic of my childhood. However, these days I much rather people call me just 'soul' as slayer just kinda scares people away before they even know me. In school we had a sort of a revolution where we pretended that the teachers were dictators and needed to be overthrown thus we created a small secret society which operated under the code name of 'the uprising' where for several years we caused mischief which included everything hiding the teachers coffee/tea to causing the entire class to revolt and we had to be assigned code names as we had to remain a mystery thus my nickname. We recruited members from other classes until are organisation consisted to around 50-60 individuals from different year groups and to this day the teachers were left mystified at who were the culprits to this massive revolution and have no idea it started from just a small group of four people who had decided they had enough."

@SoulSlayer786
(Super amazing backstory!)

"The origin of my username is quite long ago... Once I really liked "Sonic The Hedgehog" and all the games from the series. My favorite character was "Silver" and so I started naming myself "Silver" everywhere. But at most sites that name was occupied and later I also deleted my old social networks and created new ones. Thinking of a new name, I got the idea "Silverdroid" because I recently got a new smartphone running Android. So Silverdroid = Silver The Hedgehog + Android"

@Silverdroid

"Well, I chose spikepie because one year ago, I was obsessed with pie. I made a bunch of mystical pies such as the narwhal pie, snake pie, spike pie, vampire pie, and so on. I called myself SpikePie because of this obsession. Anyway, at least its not jibberish and numbers! I can actually make logos for my name!!"

@SpikePie

"My username was chosen because it actually is my real name (XD) and it has a special Chinese meaning, "King of the Mountain", due to the fact that I was born in the Chinese Year of the Monkey (2004), my parents had to "protect" me by giving me the name. Most of my friends call me "Ari" though."

@Arisandra

"My username is a combination of things, and is rather complicated. One, it's what my friends call me for short. BJ. My last name is Skistad, but I also love to ski. (Which is ironic because I snowboard instead of ski.) That is just the short version of it."

@bjskistad

""Will_Wam" was first created when I was thinking of a Minecraft username. It doesn't actually mean anything, but "Will_Wham" was already taken so I went with Will_Wam. Then when I joined scratch I used the same username."

@Will_Wam

"To answer your question, my username means exactly what is sounds like, a roasted squirrel. I chose this username, never expecting to use it ever again, but as you can tell it stuck. I got it from my grandmother's cook book. I was looking through the recipes, turtle soup, quail roast, dandelion salad, ect. Roasted squirrel was one of the recipes. It does not roll off the tongue like ScratchStang does, but I have used it for so long that I can't possibly change it."

@RoastedSquirrel64

"Aerdian means nothing. I had a list of hundreds of names I both generated online and came up with on my own. Aerdian happened to be one I came up with on my own. I had a list of around 50 that I liked, but I went through, narrowed it down to around 10 and searched them to see for which ones were the .com domains available for. Aerdian happened to be the one. It means nothing and I chose it because I liked it."

@Aerdian

"My username means "Alpha Centaurii", which is a three-star collection, including A centauri, B centauri, and Proxima Centauri. I've always like stars, and used to go to planetarium shows when I was younger. When I was little, I read a book, and I thought the illustration was really cool- but the username "AlphaCentauri" was too long. I wanted a short and simple one. Centauri was taken, but I liked "Centaurii", and that's the story of my username!"

@Centaurii

"I chose it a long time of ago because of the YouTube channel Smosh. I was real fan then and had my name Smosher. I then changed it to Smosher200. No reason why though."

@Smosher200

"Aurona doesn't necessarily mean anything, but I guess it could relate to Aurora or Aura. Sort of like a feeling in the air. Something you can sense, but isn't there. I chose it because I just wanted it to begin with an A for easier logo creation, and it sounds pretty good too."

@Aurona

"My username is a combination of my first fandom and my favorite animal."

@TurboKitten

"So to me, when I chose my username I wanted something unique, unlike my old one (AgentAI). I decided that I would have to go with something that's not a word. I really liked the uniqueness of @Haulea's and @Aurona's, so it took me a while to really consider what I wanted my username to be. The first part of my username is "Alt". Like altitude I guess? It basically symbolizes me reaching new levels and advancing through my design and coding skills. The second part" tion" doesn't really have a meaning. I know that I used the letter "t" twice, but Alttion would sound really bad. I don't really know how I came up with that part."

@Altion

"My username comes from the name of a cat who passed away a few years ago... and he was crazy! I made this account to honor him."

@CrazyNimbus

"The first part of my username, Aqua, represents my favorite color - blue. 'Lite' just sounded cool, and the two words sounded great together so I came up with @Aqualite."

@Aqualite

"My username -Royale- was chosen since:
-Has and Even amount of letters (6)
-It sounds cool -It is like 'Royal' but cooler because the letter e can do that
-Makes me feel awesome
-I wont feel embarrased about it 2 years to the future
-Fancay
-Fancay
-Fancay
-Styleish
-Fancay
-More Fancay"

@-Royale-

"My username, HazelLeaf21, comes from the name of my OC, Hazel. Her original name was Leaf, and so I decided to make that my name."

@HazelLeaf21

"I chose this username was because it sounded like a mix between scratch and machine."

@Scrachine

"My name is Anderal (AND-ER-AL) Idk what it means and I choose it because It was one of the First A words i thought of and i liked it the best."

@Anderal

"I'm a bookworm and my lucky number is 42 XD. I tried to do bookworm42 but it was already taken, so I just put the 42 at the front instead."

@42Bookworm

"I like sheep and I make projects/design/code. My previous account was Sheep_tester, and I liked it, but it was filled with old artifacts and it was a test account, which are looked down upon in our Scratch society. And so I made a new account called Sheep_maker and boom I exist now."

@Sheep_Maker

"I chose my username because I absolutely <3 medical science. I was reading a book about Influenza one day, and I thought, what if I took out the "a" and added an "i"? Then I tried it and I thought it sounded like a cool username, so I used it."

@Influenzi

"My username is an inside joke. But I can explain it. Me and my friends were playing around this old shed, and a wasp flew out. Someone mispoke and called it a Wahsp. We couldn't stop calling it that and saying look out it's the Wahsp! I took it so far as to create a new account."

@Wahsp

 "Someone used to call me Little Bit because I am reaaally short. I like games, especially retro ones, so I chose 8 Bit. And I really like penguins, so I chose penguin. I put them together and got this. :p Kind of a weird reason but... *shrugs*."

@8BITPENGUIN

"Yayme=Actually proud that I have strived myself to code 1=Independent, 2=2 Brothers, 3=3 sisters, 55=5 kids in my family, and I double love them, 2=2 parents. That's all Yayme123552" 

@Yayme123552

"My username means (dictionary definition): 'the most awesome scratcher ever' i got it from a YouTube video where someone said Melodic and I switched the L with a R."

@Merodic

"My username represents me as a person. My main personality trait is my inteligence, and I gain lots of knowledge from daily experience. I aspire to inspire those with my wisdom, and an important part of this is through self confidence (which I either exude or lack). I am trying to claim this inner wisdom that I know exists within me, and channel it to my daily life."

@Sydney_The_Wise

"I thought that it would be cool to have a username that sounded cute and sort of like an uncommon name. So I was awake in bed in the middle of the night contemplating my existence and then boom! I came up with Mibli!"

@Mibli

"Hello! My username is Makethebrainhappy. I chose this username because my website was called letsmakethebrainhappy! I picked that website name because it had never been used before, and I thought it was a good name!"

@Makethebrainhappy

"My username is awsomecatbooks. I had to spell it wrong because there is already someone who has the username spelled wright (lol) I love to read so I included books and I also love cats. I don't actually think I'm awesome, but It's a really cool name!"

@awsomecatbooks

"I chose my username because I have always loved trains. I just like everything about them. My favorite trains are Japanese bullet trains, which are called "Shinkansen", which you can tell is my username."

@Shinkansen

So when I was still @-Connection-, I wanted to make an OC. After about an hour I made NEC. Nec was a pulled from conNECtion and was meant to sound like Nick. I had gone on for whie on other things outside of Scratch with the alias of xNecx. I ended up making a pun with NextGen and NecxGen was born.

@NecxGen

Thank you everyone who participated! Everyone's stories are very intriguing.