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On the Origin of BluChickenNinja

January 28, 2015 / 44 Comments

I’ve always thought that my username was far too silly to write about. To be honest it is the result of a joke among a few of my high school friends and six years later I still can’t get over it. But I’ve had so many people ask about it and what it means that I’ve finally decided to write about the history of BluChickenNinja.

So the first thing you should know about BluChickenNinja is that it has no meaning. The second thing you should know is that it was not my idea originally. I asked my best friend and creator of BluChickenNinja about its origins and he had this to say:

I did a talk in french class about chicken breeds that are called blues

we then joked about a chicken being actually blue and then for some reason it was a ninja

so I credit you for the ninja.. the bluchicken is mine

And there you have it. BluChickenNinja was originally a joke about blue chickens. However our story isn’t over yet. Because the final part; how blue chicken ninja turned into BluChickenNinja, is mostly a fluke.

THE ORIGIN OF BLUCHICKENNINJA

I was a shy teenager. On the internet you can be whoever you want but I was shy online too. As a teenager I thought usernames were a big deal. I know now that I was wrong but at the time I thought that picking the right username was important. In the past I had just used a random name generator to pick something. However some time in 2008 I decided to use blue chicken ninja as a username.

But there was one tiny problem. This particular website had a character limit on usernames. My username had to be 15 characters or less. BlueChickenNinja had 16 characters. I decided that instead of finding a different name I would just remove one of the characters from my already chosen name. I tried a few variations but eventually I decided to remove the ‘e’ from blue. And BluChickenNinja was born. The result of a joke about chickens and some websites arbitrary character limit on usernames.

When I signed up to WordPress I knew my blog would be called BluChickenNinja. I had tried a few other names on various blogging platforms, but was never able to come up with a name I liked. Now that this blog is getting sort of serious I thought about giving it a serious name, but in the end I decided I liked having a silly name. What is the point in having a serious name when it would be just one of millions of other blogs with a bookish name.

I have lots of memories attached to BluChickenNinja and I would rather have a username that means something to me than something I hate. I know BluChickenNinja confuses people but I also know that many people have found my blog from seeing the name. I didn’t intend for that to happen but I find it hilarious that it does. I still find it crazy that a silly joke has turned into something I have to explain because so many people have asked about it. I don’t know what my teenage self would think about all of this, she would probably be horrified.

This post was getting just a bit too serious for my liking so…

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