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so i was getting bullied in an iron scrim, so i changed my name from ohsosnake542 to fuck you guys. later i shortened it to fyg.

my mom chose it

i smashed my keys and deleted every second vowel until i got something that sounded cool
i was 8

I had switched schools (7th grade) so to make friends i joined the basketball team. since i was new people didn't really like me until like 1.5 weeks into the season i started doing really good. i drained a 3 in a really good player's face which caused people to go apeshit, and one person yelled "yo, nick went nikkomode" and for some reason it stuck.

nikko nikko neeee!

Anyway I got my nickname from my (still shitty) aim.

i like pirates

I always thought you just hated Aim tbh

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its my surname minus 3 letters

also a portmanteau of my irl last name / first name, dropping a few letters here and there until it sounded like a somewhat decent name

just wanted something unique to me since my first alias was randomly generated by jagex a decade and a half ago and it couldve been mixed up with any of the 4 people in tf2 that had something similar

its an unfortunate accident i dont have an alias but when i signed up for this stuff, that one day, i was using this one and now its too late to change

when i was 12 i thought it was really funny that the kids who were a couple of grades (10!! children!!) lower than me pronounced the word "random" as "wandum"

oops

It was the name of my first D&D character, I just smashed two suggested names from the player's manual into one

i thought edgy aliases were cool, i hate my name now lol

Half life 1 HEV suit cut voiceline "Warning: Biohazard Detected"

my uncle created an account on private metin2 server forums with that name, we were sharing accounts in-game and on forum since we've been grinding the same character together and only I was posting on forum and I've become popular there due to my opinions about the game aspects, so eventually it stayed as-is
edit: his nickname were always things he saw on the first glance when creating an account anywhere so he has a nickname Persil in-game

i was tired of being called "Boom Legshot" (who wouldn't be), and decided i wanted something french-sounding, but i don't speak french so here we are

i used to play burnout revenge on xbox 360 and thought 'drifter' wasn't unique enough

My alias used to be teddy bear related (which comes from my name), was too long for etf2l, so teddy bear = stuffed toy = Stuffed.

old machinima(?) video of some dude w the alias bot1 on xbox 360 pretending to be a recruit bot on modern warfare 2.
started as bot1 when i first got steam, mirrored it to 1tob after a while, removed the 1 at some point. A couple people in pubs still call me bot1 if they recognize me from like 2013-2014

Something I find kinda funny is Tobs actually started out similarly. He was shazbot/sexbot at first and mirrored it later on. He's still ishazbot on twitch

i've got a manky eye...i'm a black scottish cyclops

Had a friend in middle school named Kevin that was pretty cool. Stuck with it, I guess

nickname a different jack at my school had and i thought was badass so I yoinked it

Idk why but I’m really wondering where translucent feces got (her?) name from..

I like the number 71...

pvt dishsoap, my original alias came from being a part of a pyro main clan of some sorts where our aliases were based around different types of soap. i shortened it to dishsoap around 2016ish i think

on a side note Marquis (current alias) is just my name and i think my aunt gave me the name bc my dad was just gunna name me Rodney Jr. Marquis comes from an old Atlanta Braves player by the name of Marquis Grissom