(02-18-2019, 03:30 PM)Roavin Wrote: Poppy, since we're here and I'm curious, could you tell us how you came to your rather interesting choice of nation name? Also how do you remember it

Um, well this is gonna be a weird story. Back when I created this nation and was revisiting nationstates after my long absence I had just finished watching a ton of videos from a youtube artist named "poppy", at the time I was unaware of the mars argo lawsuit surrounding her, but I was intrigued by her video style, always having been a fan of avant garde art styles in music, videos, poetry, and basically everywhere. Because, at the time, I was a fan of her strange style of videos that were honestly almost disturbing (for example her video where she says I'm poppy for 10 minutes) I decided to create a nation name based on that on a whim. (I now find her content pretty boring, I only really liked it because it was different but it's pretty repetitive now)

However, someone already had that name, so a sane person would have just chosen another name right? Well, I'm far from sane so I thought, if I couldn't have that name, why not have that name in another language? Problem was, the nation name thingy didn't allow other languages that didn't use the same symbols as English so I decided that the way around this would be to type the name in a computer language, ascii. If you translate my nation name from ascii to english it translates to "I'm Poppy", I also liked the idea of having a strange name that was primarily numbers just because it seemed different and, as I said before, I generally like things with different vibes.

Of course now, I've dissociated my name from the youtube rando it was based off of originally and now just use the name "poppy" as my preferred name here and gameside because no one wants to say my actual nation name. I don't really remember it per se, I just use the auto fill thing when I start typing it on nationstates, but I can remember most of it, just from seeing it so much I can remember "073 039 ~~~ ~~~ 080 111 112 112 121".