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comment by zants
zants  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the meaning behind your user name?

"Zantareous" was my username in RuneScape - I was trying to make something medieval-ish (start it with an uncommon letter - Z - and through in tons of vowels seems to be Medieval Names 101).

As I started using the name on other websites it was condensed to "zants" or sometimes "Zanty" because 1) some websites I signed up for said "Zantareous" was too long; and 2) at the time, I was scared that people would Google "Zantareous" and find out that I played RuneScape (I eventually stopped using Zanty for that reason as well - it could be tracked back to RuneScape forums that I had used it on).