• Tanoh@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 days ago

      Maybe not, some immature kids think anything with X in it looks cool. Just look at Musk renaming twitter.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 days ago

        It used to be “the thing” in early 2000’s or around there.

        Sudden flashback to Pepsi X as well.

        They’re definitely not there just he taught the simpler form was taken. Simplicity and minimal design is not what was in vogue in the noughties.

        These young’uns don’t get it, amirite

  • tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz
    23·
    10 days ago

    Fake: there is no way anon needed to wrap x’s around that tag

    gay: the possibility two people beat anon to that tag

  • squaresinger@lemmy.world
    12·
    9 days ago

    For context: This happened in a German speaking country.

    Friend of mine thought it would be cool to have Bladesaw as a gamer tag, but he was a kid and his English wasn’t great, so he spelled “saw” with German phonetics: “Bladesau”.

    Until he was at some gaming event where he entered some competition and was called up to the stage as “Blade Sau” (Fat pig).

    • Lesrid@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      I have a similar story where I thought Hades would be a nice edgy name. But everyone with a mic pronounced it Heyds. So I later changed it to Hadies and for some reason that worked

  • hbar@lemmy.ml
    8·
    9 days ago

    As a child, I loved the x files. I wanted a cool name for AOL. Thought I was clever picking the character Deep Throat, I was so cool. Didn’t realize till later what it also meant.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    5·
    10 days ago

    The Predator series would have been better if it was Dutch with a new crew being hunted by a different alien Big-game Hunter every time. Like he becomes infamous for taking out the first guy so they all want a go at him for clout. Then they could have different gimmicks like a guy with dogs, or an urbane alien who chats you up and uses poison.