StrawberryStray? StrawberryTabby [Or another cat breed] ? I like StrawberryChaton, sounds fancy! Regardless, We'll always know you as Strawbs!

Ya, Strawbs would def stay :3 I could use that as a name but not sure.

Fa told me they were working on username change, but that was almost 3 years ago when they told me that

Ya, they said it quite a while ago so I would def need to just make a new account.

What's wrong with neko?
Just becuase you had a fascination with Japanese culture in your teens?
Is this one of those woke culture things?
Or do you genuinely not like the word?

I don't feel a connection to it since I'm not Japanese nor speak it. It's just not a huge thing in my life and was done cause I was just an anime nerd at the time.

I will say that FA might release a username on here for you if the account is empty/abandoned for a long time I think?
I remember my sister doing something like that

Name changes for FA have been stated to be coming at some point, but no idea when or how. I completely understand wanting to change though. Marzi isn't my original FA, and time changes how you see and feel about yourself. I would give it ample thought, and maybe work out what you would want for a new identity. Don't rush it by any means. Make sure it's something you're comfortable with going forward.

One thought I had was maybe like... StrawberryNessa. It would be a name that still keeps the overall flow of your current one with the StrawberryN, but changes the ending of it. Don't rush into it though. Take your time. :)

Idk about other sites, but I sat on that predicament for a long time- wanting to switch names on here but not wanting to loose watchers.

I ended up switching from @/furchild to this account. And yeah I have about half the followers I did over there. (Probably more due to like, a year long hiatus from furry art before coming back to just say “hey follow this new account”) But anyone who was actively into my art did follow. Which I feel is more important/truthful in the long run. And now! I have a username I’m more comfy with.

The biggest thing I’d suggest if you’re going to switch accounts:
- make multiple journals, and an art submission announcing the movement to the new account. Set the art sub as your ‘featured’ work so when people come to your page, they know you’ve moved
- don’t lock the account. If you don’t want people lookin’ at it anymore you can remove and archive all your older art except the moving sub. This way if there’s any stragglers that come to your account they aren’t hit with ‘this user basically doesn’t exist anymore’ and knows where to find you
- update your front page/user info on here to scream “I’ve moved accounts!!” And link the new account a lot
- bonus you can change the icon on this account to say something like ‘moved’ but I think that’s just extra hassle personally
- on your new account, maybe somewhere on the front page say ‘moved from x’ so people extra know it’s you and this is the active account. not some random reposting under your brand. Again I don’t know how useful this is but I did it for a bit and I’ve seen other people who switched users do this too

(Sorry for the super long comment ahaha. On mobile it looked much shorter!)

I’ll also echo what everyone else is saying which is don’t rush into a new username if it’s just a sudden itch or you’re unsure/hesitant. The last thing you want is to make the switch, and end up disliking that name as well; having to do the whole process again.

Regardless of what ya choose! I’d def follow over. Your art is so cute (I’m just real bad at interacting behh)

Aw thank you for the reply! It sucks to lose the watchers but honestly, a huge percentage of my watchers are likely in active accounts at this point.

Def not a sudden idea, it's been something I've been sitting on for a while.

I find your name cute but you should do what you like most! Maybe strawberryKat. Kat is dutch for cat :p

I totally understand where you're coming from about the username and Japanese thing - I did the same thing in the past. But to be fully honest, I think using "neko" in your specific case isn't really too bad! It's a lot less "weeb" than other usernames I've seen, even my own former usernames. Plus, "neko" is at least a pretty commonly known word for non-Japanese speakers! And Strawberry is in English, at least it's not fully Japanese or so. X3

Of course, if you're really not liking it, then yeah maybe do consider moving to a new account. I'd definitely recommend all the stuff sapphiix said in the comments here. But personally, I think your username is great! It's descriptive & relevant to who you are, and personally I think it sounds better than, say, "StrawberryCat" or "StrawberryKitty" or anything like that. :3

StrawberryStrawbs maybe?

also unrelated adorable icon! ;w;

It is hard to change your name when you have a big following. Being from Canada it would make sense to use the French word. Although with as popular as anime is world wide, I would almost think more people know the Japanese word for cat then the French word. As someone who doesn't know either, I still knew that neko was cat lol.

If you did change it, you might email the admins of the sites you are on and see if they could change it for you. It might be less work for them to do some work on their end than go through the process of opening a new account and closing the old one.

I'm French so that's why I'm leaning towards that :3 it's about finding a name that's more "me" to me. My name is cute, but I don't relate to the Japanese aspect at all.

I actually find most people don't know what it means, and can't pronounce it. Same issue with chaton but I'm used to it.

SOON. FA will be allowing people to change their names! :3 You don't have to "lose" your account when that comes in!

I just don't know if I could wait though :< they've been saying it for three years so how soon could it be?

If you really want to change your username, then don't wait. From what I was told some time ago, giving the possibility for people to change their username on FA would basically require rewriting the code, something that should be done given how old the site is.

To make it simple, when you create an account on a site, you're given an id by whatever software runs the site. It's something you usually never see and it's a string of numbers and/or letters. On many sites, changing names is easy, since your name is just a variable for the software : the display name for user #123abc is 'StrawberryNeko'. If you change your username, the site just updates the 'display name' field, but you're still user #123abc for the site, so everything is still associated to your account, whatever your displayed name is.

Unfortunately, I was told that the software used to run FA does not do this. Instead of making you user #123abc, it uses your name as your site id, so in FA you are user#StrawberryNeko. Thus why changing name is impossible at the moment and people who want to do it have to create a new account.

And I've been told that rewriting the code to make it possible for people to change names while keeping their account and everything in it would be very difficult, if not outright impossible due to technical limitations that goes beyond my comprehension. Friends of mine who know much more about coding and website told me that the easiest way would be to start anew, basically, that trying to modify the code runs a high risk of corrupting it and loosing many things, if not everything.

I mean, they've done it already with the image database. I am SURE that usernames aren't far behind. If people keep talking about this as a QoL feature, I'm sure it'll come up sooner rather than later.

I'd say change if it feels right and if you need to, make a new account. The people who follow you proper will move forward with you. But still keep this account as a reminder cause some people don't always notice right away.

Strawberrion the obliterator!

Strayberry