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
Having a regretful username is something I experienced too.
Back in the late 90s, I used the nickname my girlfriend at the time gave me: “loverboy” (We were both 80s music fans, etc)
It turns out that was something very NAMBLA-y
When I discovered the issue, quickly switched it all over to my current username.
Only to have to do it all again when some dude from Staten Island named Mikey is poped
At the dawn of the internet
imgur
Hmmm
The internet first went online in 1983.
I may have t-shirts older than OP.
Tbf, having a shirt for over 40 years and not have it completely disintegrate is pretty impressive!
But yeah, for a minor history buff, I’m TERRIBLE with dates 😂
My randomly assigned 4 digit discriminator on Discord back when I joined was “1488”. Didn’t know it was a Nazi calling card until one of the members in the community I was participating in tried to get me banned over it.
Fortunately it only took a month or so with Discord support to get them to change it. I contemplated buying nitro so people wouldn’t think I was a nazi lol.
Why the fuck would they ban you over a DISCRIMINATOR??? YOU LITERALLY CAN"T CONTROL IT, IT IS DECIDED BY THE DISCORD PROGRAM!!
