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

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    LOL nothing of the sort. I first started using this alias when Quake 2 came out, and I joined a clan called “Crack”. I was [Crack]Happy (because I’m such a happy guy) and I just kept using it elsewhere.

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        1 year ago

        Because we were all crack shots. It was a quake competitive team, and headshots from long distances while rocket jumping were a pre-requisite for even being considered.