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

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

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

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by Ashley Childress on 2025-07-12T20:51:53Z

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I changed my username back to anchildress1 (just dropped the extra “1” from anchildress11). For whatever reason, my usual username wasn’t available when I first made the account, but my OCD-tendencies finally won out!

Odds are, I probably made an account years ago and totally forgot. Cue the “wait, this seems oddly familiar...” moment. 🫣

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!


The brief rounds of testing I did say the auto-redirect will handle any references or links that are out there, but just in case I apologize in advance if anything gets weird. Let me know if you run into problems from the switch!


🛡️ RAI Disclaimer

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.

TL; DR: AI helped, but you can blame me for the chaos! 🫠

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