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What's the Origin of your Gamertag?

Anorew

And or Username
I couldn't find a CHAT topic of this so I thought I'd create one (sorry if it's already been done, like I said couldn't find it)

Well mine is caused by my own stupidity.
It was way back when I was playing Star Wars Battlefront 2 (Keen for 3). Basically I was silly little child and thought that the O looked like a D. So I put the O in my name and didn't realise until my brother pointed it out ... 3-4 years later.
Then it stuck.
What's your story?

52 Replies

CyroWolf

Either I couldn't read or the box was misprinted of a transformer I bought called "Cryo(Cyro) Scourge."Added wolf onto that. Only till a couple months ago did I look up said transformer and see the error of my ways. At this point, there is no point in changing the spelling. Too lazy to come up with something new anyways.

ltayl1

1.048596

There have been threads similar to this one, but I'll go through this long explanation once more.

I use 2 usernames on most every site.

ltayl1 and
M4TCH

ltayl1 is derived from a system that Education Queensland (the government branch that runs the schools in my state) uses on their school networks. You are assigned a username that consists of the first letter of your first name, the first 4 letters of your last name and a number. So L(iam) TAYL(or) 1. On EQ's network I have a 2 instead of a 1, but that bugged me so I used a 1 everywhere else.

M4TCH is derived from a dumb nickname I was given in the 6th grade. A friend who I didn't talk to all that much literally just walked up to me and said "Hey Lieutenant Match!" He later explained that he got that from my initials (L.T) and the fact that I have really white skin and red hair. The name never really stuck but I kinda liked it so I started using it on Steam and Halo CE for a while. Eventually when I got around to making a Quake Live account the name 'Match' was taken so I just capitalised everything and made the A into a 4. That's pretty much it I guess.

I'll be surprised if anyone reads all of that.

1

@ltayl1: Who is that Australian guy on here who lives in the blue mountains? I thought that it was you but apparently you're in Queensland. I'm worried about him as he is probably on fire right now, or worse; his internet might be down.

BreadWolf

Weinerlord

A friend of mine mispronounced a comedian's name when we saw his poster in a casino. I don't remember the comedian's name, but it certainly wasn't "BD Breadwolf", which I thought sounded like a badass gamertag. So the Breadwolf was born.

MrFozzilla

the Inactive

I had many nicknames growing up. Fozzilla just stuck. Now I just add Mr to it. And its my name on basically everything.

ltayl1

1.048596

@1: Well I know of Christopher and Rogo who are in Adelaide, Rexx is in Victoria (I think) and there was someone else from Adelaide. I don't know of anyone from the blue mountains.

1

@ltayl1: Maybe we're safe then. I think I have a (rational) fear of bush fires.

deadshadow

foking furry

deadshadow is the name I used for my dA account and my gamer tags are just stuff that I make up and add numbers to

risaxis

BANNED

i just made mine when I was 5.

Christopher

My gamertag is TheGuyWhoWins

I just thought it would be funny when I actually won a match and the final leaderboard popped up with me in first place. I get shit (and rightly so) when I don't win though.

My username for most sites is PrivateAtkky, which is a nickname I received from a friend, then I merely put 'Private' in front.

TheOtherBlack

BANNED

Because I feel black.

M4xwell

Insanitarium

I was in 5th grade, writing my first story for school in a while. the main character's name was Roy, and he was a batallion whose motto was "Mission For Excellence against the Well-minded and Able-bodied personas."

I changed it to "Mission 4 eXcellence against the WELL-minded and able-bodied personas". Put the capitalizations together and the 4, and it goes to "M4xwell" (sound a lot like maxwell amirite)

KorporalKitty

PAM

I like cats and Private pussy was not allowed

Parks

Ass To Ass

rekraP is my name reversed I pretty much use it on anything gaming related. Before xbl I used to use Jmak and that's because of a name on the in game leaderboards in NFL Street 2 had a Jmac in it and I kinda liked how it looked. If the Jmak story is stupid it's because I was 10 or younger.

Deleted user

My name is Old Spice backwards. I had my Old Spice deodorant right next to my computer.

SpongeyGString

Akari~n!


Literally the first 5 seconds.

mlp_midnaspet

Homo-Queen*

Well its the same as my user name. It used to be 'midnaspet' but then i got into mlp so i took from Michael and just added 'mlp_'  The reference is in the game Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess. Midna is a character her"pet" is the main character.

ColdStew

All of my posts got removed by the OVERLORD.

cannonofdoom

Superannuate

Cannonofdoom is a stupid name, which amuses me.

ShadowBelmont32

It's a combination of two characters that I found extremely intriguing, with a random number at the end.
Shadow = Shadow the Hedgehog
Belmont = Simon Belmont (from Castlevania)

thus ShadowBelmont, and then usually sites require a combination of numbers and letters in a username, so I always add some double digit number at the end.

JohnStephen

My user name in most places is JohnStephen, which is my first and middle name.

My GT is AoD Juggernaut, that spawned when some friends I played with on Xbox decided we should make a clan. We never really competed and had more power struggles than Russia, but "Angels of Death" (Play on founder's name, Ben D' Eath).
All of us had to pick a name starting with AoD, such as AoD Predator, AoD Rival, AoD Revenge, etc. I think I was the last to change my name because I thought it was a fucking stupid idea, but AoD Juggernaut still beat the name JohnSn1p3r (I was 12).

Runlikablkguy

I wanted something funny and a bit racist.

The_Balla_Koala

balla rhymes with koala

MLP_JoshF

PSUlaxNumba1

I'm a Penn State fan (inb4 Sandusky) and at the time when I made my gamertag, they were number 1 in Lacrosse, a sport that I used to play.

MLP_JoshF

@MLP_JoshF: Though I'm probably going to change it soon, most likely on the release of the Xbox One, to something simple like JoshF.

M4xwell

Insanitarium

@SpongeyGString: doesn't answer ur new name m8

MLP_JoshF

I think my username is pretty obvious...

forcep

BANNED


http://internetboxpodcast.com/chat/topic.php?id=2032

I already went over this

SpongeyGString

Akari~n!

@M4xwell: New name? You mean my CHAT one? That was because my Pie F1avour account dun broke (I've been through that before, I think it was because of the whole hacking thing right around when I joined) so I made one with the first 2 things that came to mind. A sponge (I have a thing with sponges, it's weird) and a G string (guitar kind, fuck knows why).

Eddie

It is my name.

aWSOMN360

My brothers lack of patience combined with me wanting the letter N to be in it.

SpongeyGString

Akari~n!

@aWSOMN360: Looking forward to aWSOMNONE.

BiggerBen

My gamertag originated when I couldnt get BigBen as a gamer tag and thought what is greater than Big, oh Bigger. So it has been BiggerBen since I started playing Runescape.

aWSOMN360

@SpongeyGString:

Click to play

Chenzo

( ͡° ͜ʖ

I'll give a special gift to whoever can guess mine. It's been revealed before.

aWSOMN360

@Chenzo:
The Chenzo pepper?

Chenzo

( ͡° ͜ʖ

@aWSOMN360:

Click to play

aWSOMN360

@Chenzo:

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JiffyLewb

My first one (dylpickle78) was actually just a suggestion from one of my friends. I just added the '78' to it. jiffylube was the result of an inside joke with a few friends and ya know, jiffylube

Overt_Ode

I take my name from my late father, Overtoad - a fine crafter of hamburger GIFs.

When my father was in middle school, his friend made a website using webs.com, on which he adopted the username, "Overtoad," as a play on "Overlord" and his then-favourite animal, the toad
Huh. We can’t seem to load this image.

KimmyJ

King Chad

Making an account and Jimmy Kimmel is on TV. Hmmmm.... Jimmy K..... KimmyJ!

Parks

Ass To Ass

@KimmyJ: When I first saw your name I immediately thought you were female.

M4xwell

Insanitarium

@Chenzo:
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Honestly not sure, all i know is that you got your 'quote' from "Fired Up!"

KimmyJ

King Chad

@Parks: Well, that would make sense.

Chenzo

( ͡° ͜ʖ

@M4xwell:

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But I actually thought I got my quote from Cheeseburger Eddy in "The Longest Yard", but I can't seem to find any proof of it anywhere. It's still part of my code of conduct, though.

As for my username, a certain Miser who happens to be Stingy has pointed it out already... the first, as a matter of fact.

ADashofRainbow

ADashofRainbow is derived from DashingRainbow the successor to dashing rainbow which is based off of the widely known Rainbow Dash

my GT (cinnam0n Panda) is from that jack and joel video with Cinnamon the bear and every one knows the best kind of bear is a panda so cinnamon the panda, =cinnamon panda

ReservoirDog

It's my favourite movie.

Pat_RedHawk

Gamertag: QuePasserPa. ........................................................................... i come from a racist family and that kinda rubbed off on my little brother, and he makes fun of "que passa"

Deleted user

Mine is a misspelling of a misspelling of the Simpsons.

MrHoboSTD

I was 10, and had just been through sex-ed. But mostly because I was 10.

thecom3dian

I just really like Watchmen

Deleted user

When I was little (well, littler than I am now), I was flipping thru new channels my family had gotten from getting dish or something. I remember stumbling upon a racing game tournament. I was surprised anyone would watch others playing games competitively like sports at the time. I remember seeing one guy with a silly username of something like
"bad coyote funky"

His was the only one that stood apart from the other names by being silly (or memorable to past me) and I thought if I ever made a username online I'd want it to be weird and silly like that. Being uncreative, I took most of his name and only slightly changed it :P.

Been like that ever since. I wonder if I could find whatever thingy I was watching if I looked. (I'm kind of tool lazy to try tho)

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