e4 has some pretty incredible usernames. Some are actual names (@smpratte, @bill, @mika, @martin, @Leo), but others are Pokemon spelled backward (@xileets - steelix), acronyms (@pfm, @ddk), Xbox Live gamertags (@D3F14NC3), animal names (@koala, @Rattlesnake), Pokemon names with numbers (@Charizard1020) or adjectives (@wisewailmer), Pokemon towns (@Cerulean), or simply unique (@c0ll3ct0r, @lolzicost, @kpod, @HumanForScale).
So how did you come up with your username?
I just wanna say I didnāt realize until this post xileets was steelix backwards. And he even has steelix as his pfpā¦ 
Mine is also my old Xbox gamer tag haha
Wow you have a great memory @Dyl.
Funny story about my username. My nieces and nephew saw it the other day on my Nintendo Switch and they;
This is how I felt in that moment:
Sufficiently descriptive, a few spelling twists, no references to Pokemon and trying to avoid cheesiness. The first and best idea that came to mind.
Game Center ign lol from the days where i used to play a lot of mobile games as kid on my iPod/iPad from clash of clans, Dragonvale, dragon city etc XD
used it aswell for the Mobile MOBA Vainglory before it died
Its my old university login code. References my actual name. Glenn Otto and i must have been the sixth with that specific combination of letters.
I wanted something personal so I included my name (Josh), but I didnāt want it to just be my name because I wanted something distinct. I focus on the collecting aspect and donāt care about stonks so I thought it was a good representation to have my name represent my collection. The āOddā part is two-fold, Oddish is my favorite Pokemon and I also have a rather odd collection (a unique species collector and tons of odd errors) 
Shoop Da Whoop | Know Your Meme
Ancient internet āmemeā. A much younger me was bored one night and making a new character in World of Warcraft, circa 2005ish. I had the brilliant idea to name my character after the video/picture my friends were obsessed with obnoxiously referencing at the time. Shoopdawhoop seemed too long for a name, so I shortened it. For whatever reason added a āsā to the end of Shoop.
Been my nickname ever since, throughout many MMOs/online games. Even my closest IRL friends still call me by this name lol.
It is my name, but written in a cool way when I was 15 and made a discord account! When I made an account on here, I thought why not use the same name. So it is kind of just my name
It was probably around 20 years ago in the early 2000s R/S/E were the newest pokemon games. I remember really being into the GameCube version of Animal and Tales of Symphonia. My username on the official Nintendo āNsiderā forums was PKMN_FLYING_MASTER because Wingull was my favourite PokĆ©mon at the time and I really loved flying types. Still do to this day
Hereās a taste of what it was like on the PokĆ©mon boards
I decided to create a YouTube channel back in 2010 to post CoD MW2 throwing knife montages, as I used to constantly use throwing knives in the game after seeing a YouTube video on it by Wootnessy. Wow, 13 years flew by quickly. I needed to come up with a username, and since I only planned on posting throwing knife montages, I decided on ThrowingKnifeKiller. Still use it on various platforms to this day.
Years ago while re-entering this hobby I had to decide username for Finnish Pokemon forum ( doesnāt exist anymore, RIP ), while doing it this following song was playing on the background:
Iād say itās really fitting name since most of my favourite creatures/places in Pokemon have something to do with water. 
Charizard for my favorite PokƩmon and 10 for the month of October and 20 for the 20th day which is my birthday October 20th. Just worked well 
Func fact itās not my real name.
I feel like an impostor when people call me by my username and think itās my real name 
My name is Connor and my grandma used to call me Conway Twitty since she loved that guy. Probably should have chosen something Pokemon related lol.
I used to upload CoD videos as well! Those were the days.
I used the same username online from age 14 to 30+ and was consistent enough that some people recognized me from time to time from the really distinct username I used on every website and forum. But around 2020 I decided it was time to really reduce my internet presence and keep a lower profile, so I wanted to use a username that was more subtle.
I chose Stagecoach and have been Stagecoach ever since. Itās just a word I like. I like the aesthetics of it.
When I joined E4, I lived and breathed a casual MTG commander deck that was 5-color and had mana fixing issues. I was fairly new to commander/EDH. One of my favorite cards at the time was a pure blessing for mana fixing, called Chromatic Lantern.
Ez, filthy frank called himself papa frank, and he is a god.
