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Anamonator
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 16:17:42

My name used to be UltraGamerAustin because I used to make videos with that name for a little while from mid 2023 til early 2025 and also my name is Austin. I’m not active on that channel anymore and I rebranded it to my current name “Anamonator”. I came up with the name Anamonator because I wanted to shift away from gaming and have a name that can be used more universally. And I also wanted to be an animator too. I guess my name sounds like “An animator” but I was thinking something completely different at the time.

“This Website is my everything but I still go outside lol” - A Wise Man


If you don’t drink ocean water, you have nothing.

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Noltrollroll
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 16:23:31

At 1/3/26 08:36 PM, winningliam wrote:Alright this'll be interesting... Some of all have some WACKY names, or just interesting ones. But where did they originate from? For example, mine was something I came up with on the fly for pokemon go, and it's stuck ever since. (Yes I know, pretty boring) So how'd you come up with your online name?

meh idk i was thinking of something funny that would go with noel, so i thought "noltrollroll" sounds funny enough

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EctoSludge
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 16:28:51

Ghostbusters, except 'sludge' was funnier than 'plasm'.

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MuramasasEdge
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 16:37:54

My clan leader titled me.

He is Masamune's Edge.


don't edge
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AberraByteZombie
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 16:46:16 (edited 2026-01-05 16:47:53)

I start making music the last year. Because i wanted to help my bro to make a game, and my first try was an abominable soundscape directly from hell. So i study, and the music pass to evolved to just be an aberration; literally i called my first tracks 'Aberration 1, Aberration 2, etc.'


After months, the art of the game change to be more retro, and i was feeling that the music don't transmit that. So i start making Chiptune, and was better that my last creations. So i think of shared my work to see if somebody likes it. And i need a name, and i make aberrations, my first work shared with the world was going to be a chiptune; and i'm not an instrumentalist. So all my music is digitally, MIDI 100%... AberraByte, can transmit my style of music.


Now the 'zombie' part come because i lost the AberraByte original account xd, so now this new account is the return of the grave.

Right now, I'm surfing the sea of ​​unknowns!

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Khreno
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 19:35:05

Childhood nickname ^_^ from my dad and sis

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Mister-Neil
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 19:45:42

My father used to call me "Mr. Neil" all the time. It just kind of stuck. It's my real name with just a little something extra. It's a way to be unique on the internet without having a full-blown pseudonym.

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ErrantVultureNG
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 19:47:28

So how'd you come up with your online name?


Was my Xbox username

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Br00talD00dle
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 20:06:53

It's just fun to say.

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ShadenLines
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 20:46:16 (edited 2026-01-05 20:46:23)

My name is a summary of what I do. Most of what's in my gallery is proof of that.

Pen pusher, brush dragger, wood butcher & usual suspect.


You can check out my stuff in the folders here if you're bored at work.

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ShadenLines
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 20:47:34

At 1/4/26 10:03 PM, coltrne wrote:i took my name and removed a letter :)


Your name is Coltrane?


Is that your first name or last name?

Pen pusher, brush dragger, wood butcher & usual suspect.


You can check out my stuff in the folders here if you're bored at work.

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SpyderByter
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 21:10:33

It began as SpydrByter which was based off a Spider geddon comic I read long ago, then it was LeSpydr which was based off the fact that I love TF2 and my favorite class is the Spy. So Le (Being french for the) and then Spy then mix Spy with Spydr then boom! LeSpydr/LeSpydrbyte. Now I just go by a bunch of aliases.

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ProsciuttoMan
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 21:49:10

A friend of mine said my old username was "fucking lame", and so I asked what I should go by if the old one was so horrible. We were eating prosciutto ramen, so "prosciutto man" got brought up as a joke, and it just stuck.

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coltrne
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 21:56:32

At 1/5/26 08:47 PM, ShadenLines wrote:
At 1/4/26 10:03 PM, coltrne wrote:i took my name and removed a letter :)

Your name is Coltrane?

Is that your first name or last name?


first! named after the saxophonist :)

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ShadenLines
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 22:09:21

At 1/5/26 09:56 PM, coltrne wrote:
At 1/5/26 08:47 PM, ShadenLines wrote:
At 1/4/26 10:03 PM, coltrne wrote:i took my name and removed a letter :)

Your name is Coltrane?

Is that your first name or last name?

first! named after the saxophonist :)


If you're serious, then it is possible that we've met in RL once or twice. (If you want to follow up, send me a note)

Pen pusher, brush dragger, wood butcher & usual suspect.


You can check out my stuff in the folders here if you're bored at work.

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OVERSCORE
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 22:21:44

At 1/5/26 01:38 PM, DrCynical wrote:I thought I was being cool when I was 12 years old


REAL same story here lmao

I think I've lost my mind and I love it

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ColorfulCeleste
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 22:47:12

My story is that my original fursona I used was named Celeste. I knew I was (mostly) going to be drawing, so I went by "ColorfulCeleste" (colorful as in art). I now use a different fursona (Aurora) but the name stuck, hence why I am still "ColorfulCeleste" a couple years later XD

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The-Great-One
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 23:13:58

When I signed up for Newgrounds my original username was Wilber7. Back then you didn't need permission from an Administrator or Supporter Status to change your username. You could just change it, whenever you wanted to. However when the 2007 redesign was being worked on, the username lock down was announced. I wanted a username that looked and sounded better, so I picked BlueYoshi2. I later on didn't like having a number in my username, so I chose TheGreatOne. It was already taken though, so with a dash here and a dash there it became The-Great-One.

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Nitgo
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-05 23:18:56

At 1/3/26 08:36 PM, winningliam wrote:Alright this'll be interesting... Some of all have some WACKY names, or just interesting ones. But where did they originate from? For example, mine was something I came up with on the fly for pokemon go, and it's stuck ever since. (Yes I know, pretty boring) So how'd you come up with your online name?


Take a guess

Thank you for your time.

He/him - Computer scientist

Best regards, Nitgo.

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Chrome-Effigy
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-06 00:59:25

I changed my name from Aterum which was a portmanteau of Ater Umbra which is Latin for Dark Shadow but that was too teenage edgy after a while so I swapped over to Chrome Effigy. I landed on effigy as a representation of myself and chrome because its a metal and shiny and it brings to mind robotic imagery to me.

what? you don't remember me? That's Fair

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Tapestoppa
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-06 10:11:33

I use 2:

tapestoppa - got it because I was originally using my first name as a username and my mom got mad at me for it so i had to change it and the first thing i saw was an effect plugin i had open in fl


thacinnaman - I like cinnamon.

Musician who tries to make everything

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Capim
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-06 11:15:18

needed a name that could be pronounced both in my lang and in english :)

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b2go
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-06 12:44:53

i still remember that warm day in august 2024. i was just sitting and writing drum and bass when i thought i needed a new nickname. at first, i wanted to take liquid2go, but decided to make it shorter and more memorable b2go. here we go

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xXRadDarkoXx
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-06 16:54:51

One of my cousin's cats is named Darko. I am not sure if him or my grandma named him though.

I also think cats are rad. The X's on my profile were commonly used in usernames back in the day too so I just wanted to use that again.

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Ellormasteroo
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-06 17:56:19

I have based mine on the term "The Loremaster" but I made the 'the' in Spanish and added to oo at the end because I think it's funny.

I hate school with all my mind, heart and soul.

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Powgal
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-06 18:00:48

I came up with it when I was really little, originally "powgal14" (the 14 had no purpose or meaning XD) at the time it was really popular to shorten words so I just shortened "power girl" to "powgal", ik it's really cringey but the username means a lot to me.


On my newer stuff I just call myself Powgal, but if I can't I go by powgal15 since that was the username that lasted the longest for me on other sites. (yet again, the 15 means nothing and has no purpose XD it's a long story why it changed from 14 to 15, in a nutshell I had to make two accounts on something without realizing so I went with powgal15 instead)

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al3xizt3hc00l3st
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-06 21:53:58

@Webtoon eddsworld mentioned!!


anyways, this username is smth that I came up with on the spot after I used 1 of my other usernames 4 my gmail cuz I couldn't think of anything else. i can't remember when i started using this username but it just kinda stuck with me.


after I made this username, i realized that my cousin had a similar user, whoops.


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ummm...uhhh...I um...uhhhhhhh...ummmm

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Little-Radiodemon
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-07 08:15:53

I like Hazbin Hotel

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porksausages
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-07 12:56:49

was the last thing i ate before i made my twitter account like 15 years ago and i just kept the name

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DJ-ASHIXX
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Response to How'd you get your username? 2026-01-11 06:07:19

hello im DJ-ASHIXX (that's very fucking obvious LOL) And my nickname on this website have a long ass history. so. i was at first i was DJ-Alukard then DJ-CATBORG-CHAN but finally!!! in the summer of 2025 i desided on DJ-ASHIXX (and no, its not a reference to ash from evil dead nor pokemon i just liked how to word Ashixx sounded) so... yeah thats all i wanted to say... ~ DJ-ASHIXX

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