I've considered changing my username, not sure to what yet, but I feel like doing yet another rebrand. The problem is that you need to be a supporter to change your username on Newgrounds which is a monthy subscription that's £2.43 as a minimum price. It's not the cost that's the problem for me, I was planning on becoming a supporter at some point in the future anyway to help the website, it's the fact that I don't have a stable source of income (or a debit card yet) and I plan on spending almost all my money in my bank account to buy a new phone so things like subscriptions scare me a bit. Probably won't change it today, or tomorrow, or the day after. I want to change it though as I came up with that username when I was 13 and even though newgrounds has forced me to become attached to it, I want to do things that having a name like "PearlHikara" just doesn't really fit. I don't want to use my real name though: it's not a bad name, I quite like the combination in fact, but ya know, privacy and stuff. I'll go down the stage name route where it seems like a name I could have possibly gotten from birth, but not really. I've also stuck with the OC I created when I was 12 (she's changed quite a bit design wise, but she's still the same person). I did have another OC back in 2021-3 that I killed off because he wasn't waifu material. It feels a bit odd representing myself as a hot ginger fairy girl so my plan is to go down the "what youtube animators do where they draw a slightly more attractive version of themselves" route which makes more sense. Also PearlHikara's hair is ever so slightly linger than mine and a brighter shade of ginger which is annoying me slightly. I'm also not very feminine in real life so it just makes more sense. I guess this will mark the end of an era when I do get round to it.

At least my name still isn't "PearlRainbow Animations".

The sad thing is, it means I have to change my splash screen and I really like it's design. It's based on my username though so I'll have to scrap it after only using it once.

edit 12/02/2024:

I've got it. It came to me right as I was going to bed last night:

Rosie Ultraviolett. RosieUV for usernames.

Rosie 'cause roses are my favourite flower (second favourite plant to the potato) and also I can make that into a cool logo and it's a name I used to use a lot when naming things back when I was a toddler. I don't know why but maybe it's because one of my middle names is "Rose" so 3 year old me thought it would be fitting for a teddy bear.

Ultraviolett because the electromagnetic spectrum is cool, it gives me an excuse to use my favourite colour (purple) and it sounds futuristic, which works as I'm a game developer.

I'll change my username eventually (mostly once I've got it changed on Newgrounds) but yeah.

edit 12/02/2024 not at midnight:

YendorNG on the NGP discord server gifted me a month's supporter! thx :D