Username checks out.
  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    I don’t know if a subreddit for it showed up, but the original Reddit convention wasn’t merely synonymous with saying “relevant username?”.

    A lot of users would create accounts wirh novelty usernames. These could be a little funny if someone made the account as a throwaway with the intent of just making the comment with the username as a joke.

    But it was considered to be particularly funny if someone had a “real”, non-throwaway account and commented where their username was funny in the context of the parent comment.

    A user account age wasn’t visible in the standard Reddit Web UI, but one could check, and so when someone both was commenting with the intent of making a joke with their username and the account had an established history, often another user would check, confirm that the account was a non-throwaway and then comment with “account checks out”.