What Was Your AIM Screen Name?

What Was Your AIM Screen Name?
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Can We Guess? · Funny · Personality · Retro & Nostalgia

By BrainFall Staff - Published: February 10, 2025

Before texting and social media, there was AIM. Your screen name was your identity, your digital brand, your statement to the world. Whether you were dropping emo lyrics in your away message or sending *BRB* every five minutes, your AIM name said everything about you. But which one would have been yours? Take this quiz to find out!

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Question 1/12

Your AIM away message is most likely:

  • ‘BRB skating, hit me up.’
  • ‘Ugh, people are THE WORST.’
  • ‘I’m just a kid and life is a NIGHTMARE.’
  • ‘At the gym. Txt me.’
Question 2/12

What’s your go-to AIM font and color?

  • Pink Comic Sans with glitter effects.
  • Black Arial because I’m serious.
  • Red Old English for maximum edginess.
  • Green Courier New, hacker vibes.
Question 3/12

Which early 2000s social drama do you relate to the most?

  • The *MySpace Top 8* friend wars.
  • The ‘Leave Britney Alone’ saga.
  • That time *Neopets* ruined my virtual stock portfolio.
  • AIM fights over someone using your crush’s initials.
Question 4/12

What’s your dream internet career in 2003?

  • A professional skater with a YouTube channel.
  • An emo musician posting songs on MySpace.
  • A famous *Halo* or *Counter-Strike* player.
  • Owning the best sparkle-layout MySpace page.
Question 5/12

You just got home from school in 2003. What’s the first thing you do?

  • Hop on my skateboard and head outside.
  • Sign into AIM and immediately check who’s online.
  • Update my MySpace page with an emo song.
  • Log into *Neopets* or *World of Warcraft*.
Question 6/12

What’s the best way to end an AIM chat?

  • ‘brb sk8ing’ and log off dramatically.
  • ‘g2g my mom needs the phone’
  • ‘AFK pwning noobs, ttyl’
  • ‘May the force be with you.’
Question 7/12

How did you customize your AIM profile?

  • Sparkly text and glitter graphics.
  • HTML-coded ASCII art and dark quotes.
  • A sports roster and motivational quotes.
  • Game stats, XP levels, and a ‘leet’ gamer tag.
Question 8/12

Your AIM crush logs on. What do you do?

  • Change my away message to something deep and vague.
  • Casually type ‘hey lol’ and hope for the best.
  • Drop a cryptic song lyric and disappear.
  • Send a totally unnecessary ‘you up?’ at 1 AM.
Question 9/12

Pick a 2000s trend to bring back.

  • Neon jelly bracelets and fingerless gloves.
  • Those bedazzled flip phones.
  • Skateboarding being *the* coolest thing ever.
  • The art of making a perfect AIM away message.
Question 10/12

What’s your AIM screen name *definitely* NOT going to include?

  • Numbers that mean nothing.
  • Unnecessary capital letters and underscores.
  • XD or ‘Rawr’ anywhere in the name.
  • A reference to a video game no one plays anymore.
Question 11/12

You’re designing your perfect AIM layout. What’s the theme?

  • Gothic, black and red, mysterious vibes.
  • Glitter, pink, and cute fonts.
  • A neon green Matrix-style hacker aesthetic.
  • A tribute to my all-time favorite band.
Question 12/12

You find out someone blocked you on AIM. What’s your reaction?

  • Update my away message with a really *deep* song lyric.
  • Eh, whatever, I’ll just block them back.
  • Stalk their MySpace for clues.
  • Hack into their Neopets account and steal their stuff.
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