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Sexual deviant, attention whore or just plain sociopath? Discover what your Xbox Live name says about you

Words: Charlie Barratt, GamesRadar US

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Category: ALL CAPS

Examples: SUPREMEPLAYER, DA CHOZEN ONE, JOHNJINJONNY, CHOPKING, OMFGBUTTCHEEKS, BOTTERLIVE, MR CON MAN, SATANIC METAL, MEL AND ADDS, DESERT FOX 666, CARPE DIEM 99, NEWCITYBOYZ

We found this group the easiest to diagnose. The incessant use of capitalization for EVERY SINGLE LETTER isn't so much a CRY for attention as it is a DEMAND. Believe us, if these Gamertags' owners could forcibly pull your eyeballs in their direction, they would.

You have no choice but to notice their presence... every time they sign on, every time they sign off and especially every time they bag a kill. The large uniform text is like a virtual spotlight. What these folks might not realize is that their questionable aesthetic choice is so off-putting to the rest of us that it masks any other message or joke they were attempting to get across with their nickname. Too bad, because we're sure that whatever it was, it was totally NOT obnoxious.

Dr. Frederiksen: "Assuming the cap lock on your keyboard isn't broken and you know how to use it, these tags can signal a need to draw attention to yourself. HEY, LOOK AT ME! Sometimes hiding an underlying insecurity or need for attention and recognition is common in tags from other categories as well."

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lynx987 - 1 year 2 months ago

mines cky18200..........what does that mean

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abovedefault - 1 year 2 months ago

good article. Not completely right on the leetspeak one though. Ever heard of fatal1ty?

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PopeRocket - 1 year 1 month ago

^I agree. A lot of people use 'leetspeak' to get names that are not available when spelled correctly.

Now.. I will give 1 Internets to whoever can figure out where my tag comes from.

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MyGameName - 1 year 1 month ago

although it's not a LIVE gamertag but a PSN tag, what does mine fall into?

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Sizzler - 1 year 1 month ago

Pope, yours is from the Pope's hat? I don't know.

Lynx, yours is the Pop Culture refrence, because you used CKY, or the band "Camp Kill Yourself" (Better known as CKY)

And, WH47 D0 Y0U M34N 13375P34K!?

Also, mine is GOING to be Sizzler. And I don't see the refrence there. It stemmed from "SIZZLERSPERSONALPIKACHU" which I put for my Nsider username because I was going to Sizzlers that day, and I had to do something Nintendo related. I was also craving a personal pizza. I'm actually disgusted with what the name actually MEANS though, because, who would do such a cruel thing to suck a cute little electricity mouse?

So would it be Pop Culture?

But the name is just Sizzler. That could also fit under Sexual. Or, if you were thinking of melted flesh resulting from a flamethrower, that could fit into the Violence one. My first name is the CAPS category.

So which one? I need help.

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