A bit of username nostalgia...
I've had the username “beanclam” for like... 17 years (wtf). It’s the name I use for twitter, instagram, patreon, behance... pretty much everything. Here's the story from an interview I did recently:
--Your website is www.beanclamchowder.com. That’s an intriguing name. What exactly does that mean?--
Sometimes, I think about the origin of that and put my head in my hands and sigh. Time travel with me to 1999, where I was in high school and my friend (who had a Marine Biology class) was given a worksheet with different aquatic species on it. She then proceeded to give her friends nicknames from said worksheet and I was bestowed with “beanclam.” I got off easy (it was way catchier than “bristleworm”). I thought it was funny in a way only high schoolers think is funny. So I started using it as my username in the shiny, new world of internet forums.
I liked it enough (couldn’t think of an alternative) that I used it for my high school senior project in 2001. I coded (with basic HTML what an innocent time) an art website for myself, “beanclam.tripod.com.” And I started posting my art online. Even back then, I thought that name recognition was important when it came to art but I should NEVER reveal my real name on the internet.
So beanclam kind of stuck … for 17 years. But when I tried to buy a proper domain name, “beanclam.com” was already taken (disappointing, but the landing page is just a giant picture of a beanclam, appropriate), so I went with the next best thing.
