• Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    130·
    11 months ago

    That’s kind of how stage names work.

    I’ve insisted people call me “esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie” for months and only like 2 people here ever did that. Breaks my heart.💔

    • purplexed@lemmy.world
      34·
      11 months ago

      Whoa whoa whoa, are you Margot Robbie? As in, the esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie? What an honor.

        • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
          36·
          11 months ago

          NGL, The first time I saw your username I really truly believed, and My heart was pounding and I was astounded and I was about to post something telling everyone that

          she’s really here! She’s one of us!

          I went down quite a rabbit hole reading everything in your profile before I realized

          you’re extremely knowledgeable about computers and you spend a lot of time on Lemmy, couldn’t possibly be a world-traveling, in-high-demand, constantly busy Hollywood actress.

          But I’ve also imagined after every interview we’ve seen her do, she immediately picks up her smartphone and goes straight to Lemmy because this is where she spends all her free time.

          • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
            17·
            11 months ago

            It’s surprising how much extra time I can save when without Twitter or Instagram in my life.

            Also, why can’t I know a little bit about computers? Didn’t I tell you Barbie is everything?

          • LukeMedia@lemmy.world
            3·
            11 months ago

            One of these days there’ll be an interview where Margot Robbie talks about her constant use of Lemmy

    • blazeknave@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 months ago

      You’re the most prolific person on Lemmy or I just always notice your comments. Because I’m a huge fan of course.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
      86·
      11 months ago

      It took me years until I finally learned why he did that. It had something to do with the music industry owning his name. He reclaimed ownership of all his music and art and made a departure from the extortionate music industry.

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Maybe you know, did he want to be called “the artist”? And then everyone added “formerly known as Prince”?

  • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
    65·
    11 months ago

    Vin Diesels real name is Mark Sinclair and weve all accepted that too. Marilyn Manson’s name is Brian Warner and Alice Cooper was born Vincent Furnier. Stage names are pretty common with performers

    • chepox@sopuli.xyz
      28·
      11 months ago

      I had to double back to your comment because at first I glances at it and thought yeah… Then I thought about it some more and thought … Yes! That is exactly how they work. Papers plus or minus but that is the way they work. We all agree upon it and bam. You are now named!

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
        9·
        11 months ago

        I found out about him in Guitar Hero 2(?) because Soothsayer is on there and was the only song that used all 4 fret buttons even on the easiest settings (which would normally limit the fret buttons needed to just the first 3). I couldn’t physically press all 4 buttons at once (the distance between them was such that my pinky didn’t quite reach enough to actually press the last button in) which was why I only ever played at Medium or lower.

    • kellyaster@kbin.social
      25·
      11 months ago

      In case people don’t know, JK Rowling’s pen name is a reference to Robert Galbraith Heath, a psychiatrist who experimented with gay conversion therapy in the 60s and 70s using surgically implanted electrodes on gay men’s brains. He claims to have “cured” one of them. He did lots of other fucked up things too, and of course Rowling denies her pen name has anything to do with him. FWIW, she also claims she’s not a bigot, but her words and actions clearly indicate otherwise.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 months ago

        JK Rowling’s pen name is a reference to Robert Galbraith Heath, a psychiatrist who experimented with gay conversion therapy in the 60s and 70s using surgically implanted electrodes on gay men’s brains.

        Unless thats some conservative dog whistle I don’t know about, (and I’m no JKR apologist) your statement directly contradicts her own official answer as to the origin of the name:

        Why the name Robert Galbraith?

        I chose Robert because it’s one of my favourite men’s names, because Robert F Kennedy
 is my hero and because, mercifully, I hadn’t used it for any of the characters in the
 Potter series or The Casual Vacancy.

Galbraith came about for a slightly odd reason. When I was a child,
 I really wanted to be called ‘Ella Galbraith’, and I’ve no idea why.
 I don’t even know how I knew that the surname existed, because
 I can’t remember ever meeting anyone with it. Be that as it may,
 the name had a fascination for me. I actually considered calling
 myself L A Galbraith for the Strike series, but for fairly obvious 
reasons decided that initials were a bad idea.

Odder still, there was a well-known economist called 
J K Galbraith, something I only remembered by the time it was
 far too late. I was completely paranoid that people might take 
this as a clue and land at my real identity, but thankfully nobody
 was looking that deeply at the author’s name.

        source

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    11 months ago

    All I know is that I love it when they call me big papa.

    Often, while waving their hands in the air like they just don’t care.

    • 4am@lemm.ee
      4·
      11 months ago

      They love him after he called transgender people a “fad” so