One made-up word, earned slowly
Nobody names themselves Dlonem on purpose. It took a random name generator, a decade as a potato, and one rebrand to get here. Watch the moon fill in.
Carlman622
Every online life starts with a first username you can't explain. Mine was Carlman622, on Roblox — the account is still out there, frozen in a striped hoodie and a Roblox cap it's been wearing since January 2010. No deeper meaning behind the name has ever been recovered.
The dream project back then: building an authentic Hunger Games map. This was before Discord, before Skype was a given — so my cousin Randy and I would fire up Roblox and call each other on our families' landlines, staying on for hours while we played. Unlimited phone plans were not yet a thing that existed in our houses.
Randy's mom eventually opened a phone bill with hours upon hours of our calls itemized on it. The Hunger Games map was never finished. The bill, reportedly, was legendary.
Noaha the Warlock
Middle school, World of Warcraft. A warlock named Noaha carried me through the Lich King era — including a proud stretch of joining Icecrown Citadel raids I had absolutely no business being in. I'd get kicked for having no idea what I was doing, queue back up, and try again. I never made it past the second boss. Damn, I would try.
A death knight needs a name
Sixth grade, going on seventh. It was time to roll a death knight, and I couldn't think of a name — so I hit WoW's random name generator over and over, never quite liking any of it. Then I took one result, removed a couple letters, swapped another, and landed on a word that didn't exist anywhere: Dlonem. I named the character and moved on. The word waited sixteen years for its real job.
The Mr.Potato years
On Steam I became Mr.Potato — and to basically everyone who knew me, just Potato. (One guy insisted on "Tater." There's always one.) Old friends from that era still call me Potato today, which is exactly how you know it stuck.
Right up to the rebrand, my profile picture wasn't even a potato — for a while it was a turtle in a baseball cap. I didn't have my own thing going yet. That was the point of everything that came next.
The Game Center
Right as Discord was taking off, I founded The Game Center — my first real community project. Game nights, meme channels, seasonal server icons for every holiday, giveaways, years of running jokes. It even had its own website. Ten years later, the server still exists — and so do all forty-something versions of that controller icon.
The word comes back
A potato is hard to build a brand on. Looking for a name that was actually mine, I remembered the death knight. Dlonem was unique, unclaimed everywhere, and already had history. The YouTube channel launched under it in 2019, and the letter D started showing up in profile pictures — first in a ghostly Danny Phantom style, later sharpened into the crescent-and-scythe mark it is now.
Dlonem LLC
Today the word covers a YouTube channel, three Discord communities, a Crusader Kings III mod with thousands of subscribers, and a small studio shipping privacy-friendly mobile apps — officially incorporated as Dlonem LLC on July 1, 2026. Sixteen years from name generator to legal entity. Full moon. Still building.
The mark, wherever it lands
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