You know, it occured to me the other day that I've explained the 'Loopy' part of my username a few times, but I've never explained the other half of it.
I've had a few people read my username differently over the years, but it is "Loopy the one". Back in the early 2000s, a good friend of mine listed links to his friends profiles on his Neopets page. Most were in one paragraph, but at the bottom there was a separate bit that read:
And to separate her from the rest, the one and only Loopy.
Well, when I was trying to make a deviantART account, the name 'loopy' is obviously taken, like always. I was frustrated with this and knew I needed to have something to make it more unique, otherwise I was going to end up with a number salad at the end of my username like on Neopets.
"The one and only Loopy" is a bit too arrogant even for me, and besides, I clearly
wasn't the only Loopy, and that was the problem. So then, I was just 'the one Loopy". I wanted Loopy to be the first word as well. Hence "Loopy the one" Just the right level of conceited for me, hah. I always wrote it out as loopytheone though, all as one word, all in lowercase.
Also, telling this story, I've realised that it's been
19 years since I first started using this username! Damn I feel old!