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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 130 points 2 years ago

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.💔

[-] tuxtey@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

Whoa whoa whoa, are you Margot Robbie? As in, the esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie? What an honor.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

Of course I am, would I really lie to you over the Internet?

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

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?

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[-] _wizard@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago
[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

And I want to believe I will finally win that Oscar next March...

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

You're the most prolific person on Lemmy or I just always notice your comments. Because I'm a huge fan of course.

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[-] justJanne@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

Hey, have you ever met Taylor Swift? I heard she gives great IT security advice over at https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity

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[-] TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world 100 points 2 years ago

Prince literally wanted us to call him a symbol with no explanation.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 86 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Could've picked something easier to pronounce, though.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 56 points 2 years ago

It was actually brilliant. Got everyone talking about him without really giving up ‘Prince’ in the public consciousness.

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 70 points 2 years ago

Artists be like that. Stage names have been a thing for quite some time.

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 36 points 2 years ago

Writers use pen names too. I'm kinda confused why OP even thinks this is notable?

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

I'm a performer, people have literally worked under the assumption that my stage name is my legal name. It's not really surprising.

[-] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

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

[-] AnonWyo@startrek.website 11 points 2 years ago

But Sinclair stations DO sell diesel.

[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Gene Simmons is really Chaim Witz

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I love this thread. It's becoming informative and amusing.

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 60 points 2 years ago

Isn't that just kind of... how names are supposed to work?

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 28 points 2 years ago

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!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 39 points 2 years ago

The fact there is a dude out there who wants to be called "Buckethead" and wears a bucket of KFC over his head but also has the sickest guitar skills ever is even weirder.

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Never heard of Buckethead before so I had to look him up. HOLY FUCK can that dude shred.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I found out about him in Guitar Hero 2(?) because Soothsayer is on there and was the only song that used all 4 fret buttons even on the easiest settings (which would normally limit the fret buttons needed to just the first 3). I couldn't physically press all 4 buttons at once (the distance between them was such that my pinky didn't quite reach enough to actually press the last button in) which was why I only ever played at Medium or lower.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

Pro tip: it's easier to leave your whole hand shifted up and reach back for the green with your index finger.

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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

JK Rowling also writes as Robert Galbraith.

[-] I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world 46 points 2 years ago

Does that qualify as irony?

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 40 points 2 years ago

Like Rafael Cruz’s proposal that everyone else must use their given name, TERFs have rules for thee not for me.

[-] amio@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Irony of the subtype heavy.

[-] kellyaster@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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.

source

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago

and of course Rowling denies her pen name has anything to do with him.

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[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

.....yeah? What about that fact?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 19 points 2 years ago
[-] acutfjg@feddit.nl 18 points 2 years ago

Like a lot of celebrities?

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

All we hear is, radio Gaga

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[-] IanSomnia@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I mean, have you seen/heard her perform? She's very convincing.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

yeah her music videos are absolutely mesmerizing. I would do anything she tells me.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Just wait until you hear about Engelbert Humperdinck.

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[-] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Steph-Steph-ooh-la-la doesn't have quite the same ring.

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