I don’t mean my username! Yours!
I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking ‘guess’ or saying ‘:)’ or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person’s username?
Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone’s name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people’s weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.
Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?
I haven’t read any PolandBall comics, but the sub came up quite often on reddit r/all, so my only thought is it’s a reference to that. But that’s also because I’m uncultured and may not understand what the state of mind of poland refers to.
It’s not from Polandball at all, i hate that den of racism, orientalism and all kinds of shitty chauvinism.
It’s actually reference to one of the oldest polish memes “Russia is not a country, it’s a state of mind” usually being thrown at something weird happening in Russian social media. But since that’s just a pot calling kettle black, when i first created that account to spread some polish facts on chapo, what else i could call it :D
Ah good to know, I never looked at those posts because they were like a million panels long and I didn’t get it, I just knew that they were popular.
I think I’ve heard the state of mind meme buried in the back of my head, just couldn’t place it. Now I know!