Obligatory “not today” disclaimer: actually fucked up over two decades ago, but found out today.

At the dawn of theinternet, I made an account on imgur. I figured (correctly) that I wasn’t going to use it often enough for the username to matter much, so I just went with the first part of my email adress and a number four times.

Turns out that there is such a thing as nazi number code and it’s never a good idea to use an even number of 8s for usernames when you’re not a nazi.

TL;DR: Didn’t know about nazi code, accidentally selected an imgur username ending with the equivalent of a double Hitler salute

  • platysalty@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Ehh, then a lot of Chinese people are nazis. We love the number 8. I’ve got 88’s in some user names.

    Also bonus cause I’m born in 1988

    • howrar@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      My city has a Chinese grocery store that’s just called 88. It’s considered a lucky number.