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.💔
Whoa whoa whoa, are you Margot Robbie? As in, the esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie? What an honor.
Of course I am, would I really lie to you over the Internet?
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.
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?
One of these days there’ll be an interview where Margot Robbie talks about her constant use of Lemmy
I want to believe…
And I want to believe I will finally win that Oscar next March…
I will be rooting for you, esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie
Fingers crossed that I’ll get to call you esteemed Academy Award winning character actress Margot Robbie
Yay
Godspeed
You’re the most prolific person on Lemmy or I just always notice your comments. Because I’m a huge fan of course.
We should form a Margot Robbie groupie club! I suggest The Margots.
Sounds fun, can I join?
Hey, have you ever met Taylor Swift? I heard she gives great IT security advice over at https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity
But was she ever an Internet forum moderator?
Prince literally wanted us to call him a symbol with no explanation.
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.
Could’ve picked something easier to pronounce, though.
It was actually brilliant. Got everyone talking about him without really giving up ‘Prince’ in the public consciousness.
Never thought of it that way but yeah. Gave up his name without actually giving it up. Brilliant. That guy was savy as fuck. Also a genius.
He chose an unpronouncable symbol because it allowed him to break his recording contract.
I seeee! Never heard the finer details of that whole thing (I was young and not super into his stuff anyway). Smart guy though by the sounds of it!
I asked GPT why:
In the early 1990s, Prince was embroiled in a contractual dispute with Warner Bros., his record company. He felt they were restraining his creativity by not allowing him to release albums as frequently as he desired. In 1993, in an act of rebellion, he changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, which was a combination of the male and female gender symbols, in order to free himself from his contract obligations to Warner Bros. Since the symbol had no pronunciation, he was often referred to as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince” during that period. He returned to using the name Prince in 2000, after his publishing contract with Warner Bros. expired.
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The comment is talking about prince.
I am le stupid
The unpronounceable symbol :
Hollow circle above downward arrow crossed with a curlicued horn-shaped symbol and then a short bar(known to fans as the “Love Symbol”)
I’m in awe of the outstanding quality of the symbols pic
24 x 28 pixels, 320 bytes, from Wikipedia…
Prince_logo.svg.webp
… if it really was SVG format it would be much greater quality.They may have made the classic “let’s batch-optimize all images for the web” or maybe using a CDN provider, either with wrong settings.
Yeah SVG would make it almost endlessly scalable.
Yes … and I did not find the original SVG but I found this 800 pixels :
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Prince_logo.svg/800px-Prince_logo.svg.png
From this :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)Nice - i also found lots of prince wikis, but not the svg
I know now what to hear tonight, perfect
Maybe you know, did he want to be called “the artist”? And then everyone added “formerly known as Prince”?
Artists be like that. Stage names have been a thing for quite some time.
Writers use pen names too. I’m kinda confused why OP even thinks this is notable?
Maybe they don’t. They never even finished the sentence, so maybe they were going to say “…is incredibly mundane and unnoteworthy”
I’m a performer, people have literally worked under the assumption that my stage name is my legal name. It’s not really surprising.
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
But Sinclair stations DO sell diesel.
Gene Simmons is really Chaim Witz
I love this thread. It’s becoming informative and amusing.
Isn’t that just kind of… how names are supposed to work?
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!
JK Rowling also writes as Robert Galbraith.
Does that qualify as irony?
Like Rafael Cruz’s proposal that everyone else must use their given name, TERFs have rules for thee not for me.
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Irony of the subtype heavy.
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.
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.and of course Rowling denies her pen name has anything to do with him.
What’s wrong with LAG other than computer lag?
I don’t see how. The initials JKR dont appear anywhere in there, is there something Im missing?
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I agree Noble Shift.
I second BarqsHasBite
right on ShotgunSamurai
Like a lot of celebrities?
Lady Gaga:
…yeah? What about that fact?
All we hear is, radio Gaga
Exactly.
Where’s Lord Gugu, btw?
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They love him after he called transgender people a “fad” so
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.
I mean, have you seen/heard her perform? She’s very convincing.
yeah her music videos are absolutely mesmerizing. I would do anything she tells me.
Just wait until you hear about Engelbert Humperdinck.
Humperdink! Humperdink! Humperdink!
I bet he was born John Smith, and Engelbert Humperdinck is a stage name that he chose for some insane reason
