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.💔
Whoa whoa whoa, are you Margot Robbie? As in, the esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie? What an honor.
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.
You’re the most prolific person on Lemmy or I just always notice your comments. Because I’m a huge fan of course.
Hey, have you ever met Taylor Swift? I heard she gives great IT security advice over at https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity
Prince literally wanted us to call him a symbol with no explanation.
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.
It was actually brilliant. Got everyone talking about him without really giving up ‘Prince’ in the public consciousness.
I asked GPT why:
In the early 1990s, Prince was embroiled in a contractual dispute with Warner Bros., his record company. He felt they were restraining his creativity by not allowing him to release albums as frequently as he desired. In 1993, in an act of rebellion, he changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, which was a combination of the male and female gender symbols, in order to free himself from his contract obligations to Warner Bros. Since the symbol had no pronunciation, he was often referred to as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince” during that period. He returned to using the name Prince in 2000, after his publishing contract with Warner Bros. expired.
The unpronounceable symbol :
Hollow circle above downward arrow crossed with a curlicued horn-shaped symbol and then a short bar
(known to fans as the “Love Symbol”)
24 x 28 pixels, 320 bytes, from Wikipedia…
Prince_logo.svg.webp
… if it really was SVG format it would be much greater quality.
Artists be like that. Stage names have been a thing for quite some time.
Writers use pen names too. I’m kinda confused why OP even thinks this is notable?
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
Isn’t that just kind of… how names are supposed to work?
