Embarrasing gamer tags

[Elvis Starburst]

I know I had one before this one, but I can't remember it for the life of me. I also wouldn't call this embarrassing, but my old Live account name was Heavendor. I thought it was good~ Though nobody could tell if it was Heaven-door, or Heave-en-door. That drove me mad.

My current PSN is also probably seen lame to some, but I still enjoy it. TheNyxAvatar. Yup, P3 bitches!

 

[Vorpalrabbit]

I've only ever had 3 aliases; When I was 13 and getting started on the internet in the 90's, I was Garen87. Then for years I was Werecritter, because Werewolves are lame. And finally I've been using VorpalRabbit or VorpaltheRabbit for a good 10+ years now

 

[JasonKaotic]

Echh.. my username here now is my username/gamertag for most things because I'm too lazy to think of something else.

It used to be Jasonater when I was younger, then I figured that was really sad, so when I got 'round to making an Xbox Live account I wanted to make it something else but had no idea what to do, so I just thought of something that'd fit in with other peoples' gamertags, then that kind of stuck with everything else.

And I've already changed my username on here so I can't change it again. Wahh.
For the love of god, please do not think I'm an emo kid.

 

[likalaruku]

I saw an embarassing gamertag on an episode of MMOGrinder. what the hell was it again?

Too many episodes, I just couldn;t find it. I did however find some amusing tags.

*Grumpy Bacon.
*Daisy Horn Boobs.
*Hulk Peacock Face.
*Bunnywuffles.

Personally, I often use Baconwaffles in games I'm not taking seriously.

 

[Ham Blitz]

When I got my Xbox360 many years ago (7 maybe?), I just wanted to play it and not worry about whatever Xbox Live was. I let the system choose a combo for me and ended up with "AquiredCarp" as my gamer tag. It's not so much bad as it is horribly awkward to try and tell people what it is. "Aquired what?" Is the usually response.

I don't know why but I actually like that gamer tag. I would put a space in it when possible since that's how I like to do it but besides that I like it. Maybe since I like the word carp a lot. Not the fish mind you, I don't really eat fish, just the sound of the name.

I haven't really had many tags, the only ones that reoccur are Baconious (which I used back in like middle school) and this current one. Well, I guess when I tried WoW I had some terrible ones where I made a stretch to put Bacon references in the names (I haven't changed much clearly, I'm just less stupid with it).
The worst I can remember was Natures Bacon for a tauren druid or something like that.

 

[Jewrean]

Mine is Jewrean.

The Jewish Korean.

My friends called me a Jew because I was tight with money.
My friends thought I was good at video games... like a Korean.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I have never been embarrassed by my gamertags. My psn one is my first and middle name. My xbox one used to be that with the numbers 4203 (42 being the answer to life the universe and everything as well as one of my lucky numbers and 03 being the year I graduated high school). Now, however, everything except my psn has been changed to my haunt name which is blow pop. Sometimes using a 0 instead of an o because I have to but all the same meaning.

 

[motiff]

I'm still as young as when you guys started making your first aliases, so I don't know if my own judgement is very good.
I used "tifftaffjr" for a while, because I once signed up for an online game as "tifftaff" ("Tiffany" and "taffy".) "Jr" as a suffix for the successor once I lost the password for tifftaff.
"motiff" is a lot nicer name if you take into account that it was originally a name to the YouTube channel me and my friend Morgan founded together. Nowadays, it serves as my username for most games, because it's the only decent pun to my first name.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

On 360, PS3, and GFWL my name is OvenFresh420. Yeah, yeah, I know. It was 7 years ago, my brother and I had just waited in line to get the 360 and when we set it up we had partaken the namesake and there it was. I've since racked up so many achievements, trophies, Demon's/Dark souls buddies and I refuse to pay Microsoft to change the name. And I don't think you can change the PSN name, and I can't make a new one because I have Plus on it and aforementioned trophies. I haven't even smoked in years.

The sad part is that people have sent me messages saying they declined to play with me because they saw the name. I mean, I know there's a lot of hurr durr stoners out there online who talk about weed the whole time and aren't very fun, but cut me some slack.

 

[Poppy JR.]

I think mine counts. It is named after this happy fella from the Kirby games:

Spoiler

I saw a guy named Hitler_Lives once. Nobody was amused.

 

[unbreakable212]

One of my friends has someone on his xbox live friends list who's gamer tag is - Bum 4 55P, I still do not know the story behind it.

 

[Bertylicious]

I have a friend whose PSN name is arsespider. His mate entered it when he went out for a piss when he set it up several years ago. There's probably some sort of lesson to be learned there.

 

[DanielBrown]

Not sure if they'd be considered embarrassing, but my very first was Bizzarro on an internet café. It was the username I had on some site a long time ago. Second would be my World of Warcraft account, which was Metalbanger(slightly cringe worthy).
These days I just go with DanielBrown, or DanielBrown89 if that's taken, because my imagination sucks.

My PSN friends aren't that embarrassing either. One is called ChuckNorrriizzzzz or something though.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Early high school was the first time I actually used a gamer tag, during high school game tournaments (ya, we had those). I couldn't think of any name, so a friend suggested I'd think of something terribly awful and anime. SamuraiOfTheMorninglight was the result.

They were less amused when I won the Half-Life Deathmatch matchups with zero experience, hehehe.

Come to think of it, it was those events that actually brought me to gaming. Maybe I should thank them someday.

 

[smithy_2045]

No embarrassing usernames for me. Having said that, I'm still strangely proud of my CS:S alias for a while, which may or may not have been "PROFESSOR CHUNKERS". So maybe I'm just not embarrassed easily by my username choices.

 

[nvzboy]

I quite regularly saw people with their serial code for username on battlefield 3...
That and I once had the glorious idea of calling myself sirkokonfaes on some games just for laughs.
Other than that... I use this screenname everywhere. Came up with it when I was 13 and kept it ever since due to lack of inspiration.

 

[sagitel]

once upon a time i played this browser game called travian. it was pretty big here. so i had my usernames such as mohammad.n and things like that. then i went "creative" and made my last account by the user name of furious tiger. that was the silliest user name ever. but now i use kamol (which comes from a time a MMORPG never accepted any of the names so i typed it in random) and Sir/Lord naghi or NaghiMan (my family name has naghi and people call me that)

 

[Fishcactus]

My old gamer tag from when I was 11 was Diecheese...because I didn't like cheese. Yeah...I don't use that anymore.

I always just use Fishcactus now, since it's rarely taken and I love it.

I always hate gamer tags or usernames that are given to you. Pottermore is the worst, i'm QuillWizard10937487362873 or something.

 

[Fox12]

Well, most of my gamer tags are Hannibal.

Because I'm a history buff I named my tag after the legendary Carthaginian general who fought Rome in the second Punic War. However, because no one knows who that is everyone assumes I'm referring to Hannibal the serial killer. As a result I've gotten some rather awkward stares and comments. I still refuse to change the name though.

 

[bliebblob]

When I was a kid I went with angel of bullets for a while. Oh the cringe... even now... Also shadow or shadowhunter depending on what was available, but at least that was no worse than your average gamertag.

Also had the_truth@... as email for a while... Let's just say I was pretty glad when the world collectively decided to switch from windows mail to hotmail. It was the perfect excuse to forget that emailaccount even existed.

Nowadays I try to go by scatman, and if possible equip myself with a way to play the scatman songs over voicechat. The far less serious tone of the name nicely reflects my current attitude towards games. Plus people often start humming or singing the songs just from seeing the name, and playing the actual song at that point never seems to fail to entertain lobbies. More than once I've turned left 4 dead games into impromptu danceparties this way. I'm not sure why, but everyone just seems to love scatman john Occasional batman-scatman puns also never seem to get old. Quickly team, to the scatmobile!