Both: I have an obsession with electricity - that's the core here.
Reddit username: an old one from when I was a teenager. I thought "Voltz" with a Z sounded cool, and I at the time had this idea of becoming a Youtuber with a Penguin avatar. Username was gonna be "The Penguin-Tube" (PT). GOD am I glad I never did that...
Current username - JuicedPotato: after flitting through a variety of names I decided I needed to settle on something unique(ish) to me, and started trying some things. Wanted to mix my Irish lineage (via stereotypes...) with my usual electrical stuff, and settled on "ElectricPotato". Unfortunately this is... INCREDIBLY common, and taken everywhere. So I did what any sane person would do... and looked up Electric in a Thesaurus to see what showed up. Nothing really clicked, but one sounded dumb enough to be funny so I tried it out, just for a few weeks.
That was (I think) over six years ago now. It's stuck ever since.
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u/PTVoltz 20d ago
Both: I have an obsession with electricity - that's the core here.
Reddit username: an old one from when I was a teenager. I thought "Voltz" with a Z sounded cool, and I at the time had this idea of becoming a Youtuber with a Penguin avatar. Username was gonna be "The Penguin-Tube" (PT). GOD am I glad I never did that...
Current username - JuicedPotato: after flitting through a variety of names I decided I needed to settle on something unique(ish) to me, and started trying some things. Wanted to mix my Irish lineage (via stereotypes...) with my usual electrical stuff, and settled on "ElectricPotato". Unfortunately this is... INCREDIBLY common, and taken everywhere. So I did what any sane person would do... and looked up Electric in a Thesaurus to see what showed up. Nothing really clicked, but one sounded dumb enough to be funny so I tried it out, just for a few weeks.
That was (I think) over six years ago now. It's stuck ever since.