Name Swap Alert: OCD Strikes Again (But It’s Just the Username)

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Published: 2025-07-12T20:51:53Z

Tags: #watercooler #profiletweaks #ocdmoments #usernamenews

I changed my username back to anchildress1 (just dropped the extra “1” from anchildress11). For...

<p>I changed my username back to <code>anchildress1</code> (just dropped the extra “1” from <code>anchildress11</code>). For whatever reason, my usual username wasn’t available when I first made the account, but my OCD-tendencies finally won out! </p> <blockquote> <p>Odds are, I probably made an account years ago and totally forgot. Cue the “wait, this seems oddly familiar...” moment. 🫣</p> </blockquote> <p>I was doing something completely unrelated and somehow ended up staring at my profile page - the editable text field practically begging me to try it. And... it worked! 🎉 I finally feel like myself again!</p> &lt;hr&gt; <p>The brief rounds of testing I did say the auto-redirect will handle any references or links that are out there, but <strong>just in case</strong> I apologize in advance if anything gets <em>weird</em>. Let me know if you run into problems from the switch!</p> &lt;hr&gt; <blockquote> <h3> <a href="#rai-disclaimer"> </a> 🛡️ RAI Disclaimer </h3> <p>Everything I share here is my own perspective—created with the help of AI tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and their friends), but always with a human in the loop. I do my best to catch accidental bias and fact-check, but if you ever spot something odd, let me know! AI isn’t perfect, and neither am I.</p> <p><strong>TL; DR:</strong> AI helped, but you can blame me for the <strong>chaos</strong>! 🫠</p> </blockquote>

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