ITT: The story behind your username/artist name.

[CWeissRun]

Mine came to me while trying to think of an Xbox Live name. Wanted something original, with no numbers. Thought about who I am, what I do, etc. I'm a distance runner, and my name fit perfectly.
"See Spot run? CWeissRun!"

[vladnuke]

My name is Vladimir. I used to be obcessed with nukes. Hence Vladnuke. That sorta stuck with me forever.

[colortwelve]

(From Venture Bros.):
Henchman 21: So, if you're dead, does that mean you can, like, know anything?
Henchman 24's Ghost: Yeah, I guess.
21: Okay then, what's the meaning of life?
24: The color twelve.

I really wish I could find a clip of that exchange... It's much funnier than it seems to get credit for

[NewWorldMare]

(thread resurrection much)

My name's a pun off a Rush song called "New World Man". I needed an alias for creating pony stuff, so I just replaced "Man" with "Mare". Not very original =P

[MatthewMosierMusic]

Well... My parents got together one day and were all like "We should make peoples!" and they decided to cook me up. Then, once I was out of the death hole, they were like "We should use the last name Mosier, 'cause its our last name! It's awesome!! And Matt is a cool first name, too. Lets go with that!"

And that's how Equestria was made.

[NewWorldMare]

death hole

I... what?

[colortwelve]

death hole

I... what?

Seems legit.

[wu long cha]

oolong tea is one of my favorite teas, but i thought "oolong" was overused for a name. "乌龙茶" looked cool, but i don't know chinese and the characters would be a pain to paste over and over. finally
i opted for the romanized version, wu long cha.

i actually considered other teas too: ginger tea, chai tea, chamomile tea...

[soup2504]

WELP!

... It all started in 5th grade! I had an obsession with soup, so I named my account to pretty much ANYTHING soup250

Then it turned to soup2504, and I've been using it ever since!

Except the name I use for music is soupcan (which is a horrible name, IMO, but idc, SOUP IT IS!) because I didn't want to be called "Soup2504" for my music (???)

[Freewave]

Well I've been a dj in equestria for a few decades now (semi-retired now, i do the occasional princess weddings and all). After doing a little unicorn magic decades ago (Twilight got me a few books to help with some spells-dimension shift, time travelling, shape shifting, yada yada) I was able to dimension jump to Earth. After hanging out in Ibiza and UK over the years off and on (Octavia doesn't like me to stray too far from home) I've tried to make some music myself more recently based off these experiences. I mix EDM "(Earth Dance Music)" with our own equestrian beats with some measured success (are "computers" aren't quite as evolved sadly) and I'm still getting the hang of it. Still I love that you guys seem to have so much more and varied music than we do and I do love to sample it. Ultimately I'm not wild about this music which your people call "dubstep" (its been linked to hoof and mouth disease over here) but for the most part its very cool music especially the music about us ponies. We really do appreciate all the shout outs and glad we finally got the internet over here so i can chat with y'all more regularly and we can import some of this music back to listen to. It's sad that sometimes we see a lot more conflict and fighting on Earth then we see in EQ but then again we're a very different species so I guess that's to be expected.

Oh yeah (on-topic) for awhile I used to also go by Vinyl Scratch (was a nickname) but Serato got wind of that and threatened to sue so I dropped that as nickname, but I've been going by Pon-3 ever since my pal Paul Oakencolt came up with it for me years before (he's been visiting Earth more consistently then I have and is a lot more well known under his "human" name).

[Ed Viper]

WELL,

My name is pretty cool, I guess.

My full artist name is Emperor Übermensch (I often shorten it to EmpUbermensch for forums and the like). The Übermensch part was prompted in part by the Angerfist song "Übermensch" and also the medic's line "I am ze Übermensch!" in Team Fortress 2. As far as Emperor goes, well I sort of felt like "Übermensch" wasn't quite enough on it's own, it needed an article of some kind. I considered Mister, Doctor, Professor, but nothing was quite working. Eventually, the word "emperor" just kinda came to me and I decided to tack it on there. Not a bad name, if I do say so myself.

Also, I am Cheez in a collab duo named "Makt & Cheez". I don't know how we got that name.

[K3WRO]

I have no idea how my name got here, I think it's pretty lame, at least it's easy to remember

Well, My original name was Kurogane, so I only kept kuro, and spelt it differently

wazam

[Fimbulin]

I made up Fimbulin off of a very old Scandinavian word. It basically means something like, "Cold one"- like I'm cold-hearted or something. I love old languages. I made it up because my previous screen-name was already taken on an online game so I made up another 'more intimidating' one. I like this one a bit better anyways.

[Lethaargic]

space = outer space
psy = psytrance

[Doofcake]

My online alias before Doofcake was August, which is my second first name (Yes, I have two first names, not a middle name). And the alias before that was Henry, which was the name of the character I made up for my short stories, Henry Woodlands. But Doofcake came to be when I first started making music, February 2012. I didn't like neither Henry nor August as an artist name and I couldn't think of a name myself, so I went in the #bronymusic ponychat channel, where I always hang out and I asked what my artist name could be.
Obviously, nobody could think of anything good, I got suggestions like: "KeepOnRockingAugust", "Yelling at August" and "The Living August". But at one point, after everyone had suggested silly names, Aviators said something like: "I can't think of a good name, I'm such a doofcake" and for some reason, that made me go DING! And I said that's the perfect name (I'm weird like that). Upon further research, I came to love the name a LOT. Turns out in Australian street slang, "doof" means "A massive party". And cake is... Well... Cake. I like cake, I bake cakes all the time. Who doesn't like cakes?
So there you have it. Origin of my artist name. Good thing is, the name is available pretty much everywhere too, except for YouTube, someone had taken Doofcake on YouTube, forcing me to use DoofcakePony.
People call me Doofy in #bronymusic a lot though. Dooby pls

[CommandSpry]

Anagram of SMRDcompany. Leet?

[BronyTuber]

Usual username is Tuberculoid, its usually shortened to Tuber, I just stapled Brony on the front of it because I'm so damn creative

[inkBot]

A couple of years ago I decided to go ahead and buy myself a domain name, and needed a good name for it. I could've used the nick I primarily used back then, LuZeke (which is a combination of the first syllable in my name and Zeke, which I'm called by most of my friends since university). However, I wanted a domain name that people could easily remember, and almost no one ever knows how to pronounce LuZeke for some reason. So I thought about it and came up with inkBot. The reasoning behind it is pretty simple. ink = I draw, Bot = I like robots, and the word "Bot" has a pretty nice ring to it in general.

[Derpageddon]

Oh man, a resurrected thread allowing everyone to talk about themselves. Quick every one go post one it. *jumps on band wagon* Anyway.

I normally go online under the screen name Elusive Shark but I didn't want that as an artists name. Didn't want to use my OC's name either. So awhile back I came up with the name Crusader as I liked the single word name like what Justice has. Eventually MLP happens and the CMC's are a thing. Fast forward to the end of my first year in college I'm thinking about adding a music major as a second major but that didn't happen simply because Earth does not have enough hours in a day (I want to live on a different planet with more hours). So I decide that instead of trying the formal rout to learning music composition, I would learn myself. Eventually I found this community and needed an artist name. So I took what the CMC's are trying to do "find out who they are" and this is a project for me. Thats where Project Crusader came from.

TLDR this name reflects what I hope to learn from composing music. Its a Project to find myself through making music. (Sorry about the long post)

[Cherax]

I'm not wild about this music which your people call "dubstep"

This.

In my younger years, I made music as Look to Windward (though I barely released anything), which comes from a section of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland - not because I appreciate classic American poetry, but because I love Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, the first one I ever read being Consider Phlebas. (I do like Eliot, but honestly, the other sections of the Wasteland are pretty dense and confusing to me!) Look to Windward died out for two reasons: firstly, a prog-metal band from New Zealand released a pretty good EP under the name, and I didn't want there to be confusion about the name, even though I used it first; and secondly, I eventually started learning how to actually write music and make it sound good, and became so horrified by my past releases that I wanted nothing to do with them at all.

In December last year, I recorded a chilled-out, choral version of TLC's No Scrubs as a birthday present for a friend - and people liked it enough that they wanted to download it from somewhere. I had to think of a band name, ASAP! I spent a week agonising over the issue, asking everyone I knew for suggestions, but no dice. Inspiration only struck when I went with some friends to the aquarium, and we found... this guy. I loved how tiny and adorable he was, in stark contrast with how beautifully violent his scientific name was. A few other aquatic names were contenders, but all save for Cherax Destructor were taken.

Cut to present day, and now there are related videos of blue yabbies on every Youtube video I upload.

[Indigo Spectrum]

Truth be told, I have no idea how I thought of my artist name. When I was creating my account for MLR, I needed an artist name, so I just thought of Indigo Spectrum randomly, and I went with it.

[Spark]

I needed a username to register here. Since I had always favored fire-types in video games, I decided to try Spark. I'm actually surprised it hasn't been taken yet.

So until I find a better name, I'm happily stuck with this.

[itroitnyah]

My OC's name was Cloudchaser... and then "Hurricane Fluttershy" happened. My jaw dropped when I heard the name. I just dropped the "Chaser" after that.

Holy celestia man, that's pretty awesome xD. Yours and ArtAttacks names have the greatest stories behind them, hooves down.

Me? Well, a few years ago, when I was about 12 or 13 or so, I had myself this awesome ipod touch, and I loved it to pieces. (almost literally, because I kicked it off of my bunkbed one time while I was asleep. It was fine, nothing was wrong with it at all.). And I literally had over $150 of paid apps on it, no joke. Some of them had a sign up option for the company or whatever that made the games (not zanga or whatever), so I decided to join one day. So when it asked me to make a username, I couldn't think up of one. So I just used the basic rules of english to form a word that would be my username, and this came out of it. Just out the blue, randomly. So I used that, and it stuck.

But eventually I sold my ipod so that I could buy myself an xbox 360, and I kept "itroitnyah" as my live gamertag (still have my account and have gold too, if you want to add me). Eventually I decided to start doing some art, because I can draw somewhat, and I made a youtube account called "arttroll" which didn't last long. So now I'm back to itroitnyah

[natsukashi]

Okay, originally I was known as ... I honestly can't recall because it was just a run of the mill nickname of some sorts. Then I started frequenting Golden Sun forums because, one of my favourite games. That introduced me to quite a few people and a bunch of new music. After listening to Gåte's album Islilje, I went by that nickname for some time being. After a while I transposed it into al bhed, which spelled out Ecmemza. Though these names have nothing to do with my current name, but they're part of my backstory. I'm building up pretentious pretense to soften the blow of my origins.
As I noted earlier, this community introduced me to a lot of new music, so I got into j-rock. One band in particular, called Vidoll, caught my interest. So in a spontaneous burst while browsing their time periods which (this being Visual Kei) were measured in looks I took a liking to their current one. Called natsukashi. Their guitarists stagename was HIDE so I was originally natsukashi~HIDE but when the tilde wasn't accepted, I dropped the HIDE as well. SO THAT'S WHY I'M NATSUKASHI YO.

Dash's Sunglasses is an homage to the best sunglasses in the series. I am very unpretentious when choosing nicknames. I've started to kinda lose interest in Dash's Sunglasses as an artist name though, because I came up with DJ FISTBUCK which is a fun pun, and people know what to expect from that.

So I said that I dislike being very pretentious when choosing nicknames, and the last one does kind of break that rule, Unsterblich is a direct representation of the wish for a magnum opus. But it's in german, because Germany is cool. >_>

[CyberpunkColt]

CyberpunkColt --> Cyberpunk -->My. Life. Depends. On. Technology. My life runs on technology. It feeds on it. Without technology I would explode internally in such a way that it would create a rift through time and space and destroy us all. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? IS IT?!

colt because PONIES.