“Ebolakid? I feel offended!”
First of all: It’s “ebolakid” with all lower caps.
Second of all: Don’t. It’s just a name.
When choosing an online handle you need to choose carefully. I’ve used ebolakid on and off for about 15 years now, and like all things it has an origin. Good or bad, it comes from somewhere.
About 18 or 19 years ago I was in an (for now) undisclosed band. The old songs are on Spotify, maybe I’ll write about it some day. For some reason, as part of our pre-show routine, we huddled up in a circle and put our hands in the middle just like your local sports team does. When everybody was ready we shouted “EBOLA KIDS!” from the top of our lungs. Why we did that I can’t remember. When I was registering for Xbox Live back in 2004 I needed a good gamer tag. For some reason I thought that “ebolakid” would be cool to register and It’d be funny to see how long it took Microsoft to make me change the name.
They never did, so 15 years later I’m still ebolakid on Xbox Live.
When I got into the hobby developer business in 2014 I needed a name to hide behind. For better or worse, I reused ebolakid and everything was set in motion. A year or two later I registered ebolakid.com and here we are.