Obligatory “not today” disclaimer: actually fucked up over two decades ago, but found out today.

At the dawn of theinternet, I made an account on imgur. I figured (correctly) that I wasn’t going to use it often enough for the username to matter much, so I just went with the first part of my email adress and a number four times.

Turns out that there is such a thing as nazi number code and it’s never a good idea to use an even number of 8s for usernames when you’re not a nazi.

TL;DR: Didn’t know about nazi code, accidentally selected an imgur username ending with the equivalent of a double Hitler salute

  • NewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My birthday is 8/18 (18.8 if you aren’t in North America), so I have a few accounts that end 818. I legit had someone ask me, in all seriousness, if I was an idiot nazi who screwed it up.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      That reminds me of a t-shirt a Danish comedy metal band put out which, translated to English, says

      “Club 664: the satanic cult for stupid people” 😁