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As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.

— Christopher Poole

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My formative years were in Houston. I was in middle school, and everyone was dropping the last half of their names and adding an 'o' to the end. My little crew that I had, we were an all-female rap group, and everyone had an 'o' at the end of their name. I was Lisso. Then this dude started getting lazy with it, saying Lizzo.

— Lizzo

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

— Steve Sabol

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

— Mos Def

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

— Vanessa Hudgens

I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

— Gabriel Luna

✗Opposing Perspectives

'Mahershala' is my nickname.

— Mahershala Ali

My nickname used to be Moses - still is Moses - for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.

— Nelly

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.

— Lizzo

'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.

— Penn Jillette

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

— Mos Def