It's been my internet identity / haxxorz handle since the 1990s, and the story is about as benign as Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner and his black-and-yellow striped sweater.
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It started off on Discord as a joke I no longer remember the context of, and was originally just "PopeJoeI (as in Pope Joe the First)" , and then spread to other areas, like the site formerly known as Twitter.
Then Discord added the crowns to admins and it then became "PopeKingJoe" and that's that.
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An inside joke
It was about time.
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it's my name in Arabic, translated to English. very creative, i know.
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Good music.
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Been using it for so long, that I forgot how I chose it
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Because it's mine and it was available.