I could have sworn I posted here once, but it seems I didn't. I get asked this at least once a week and I even have a section on my About page regarding it
I'd say my tag is a source of pride to some degree. It was originally "Plague from Karma", basically two random words slapped together to make a phrase name kid me thought was cool. I played a shitload of MMOs back in the mid-2000s, and as you probably know, a kid that's like 8 years old on an MMO is guaranteed to be a shitter. I was...I got banned from quite a few and was pretty garbage at most of them. I never played anything mainstream, and I think the ones I played died when WoW rose to prominence. I eventually got into Ace Attorney starting with Dual Destinies and switched to Plague von Karma as a reference to Manfred von Karma, an antagonist from the first game. "von" means something along the lines of "from" or "from the" in German, a language I also speak a good bit of.
Between the original name and the name switch, I did change tags a few times. Chippy2000 is one of them, which was a reference to Starlow's pseudonym in Bowser's Inside Story. In the event the name was taken, I'd change to Chippy2001 or something. There's...a lot of cringe attached to those names, a luxury "Plague from Karma" doesn't have thanks to being reserved to old live chat rooms on mIRC and Skype. I've also gone by Trickster (not to be confused with the PS staff member of old), Fran, Shairo, and a few others, all of which were largely spur-of-the-moment.
To be honest, I've had many occasions where I consider leaving this old name behind. You may have seen me
try to change my name to Fran a while back on that basis. It's mainly because of my history of being a pretty toxic presence back when I was a closeted maniac. However, I also believe that abandoning this name would never truly be possible; people would (and did) call me PvK regardless, I have numerous things credited to this name, and more. Even with all that considered, running from my past isn't the play...it made me who I am, after all. A lot of people helped me become who I am today, and I think abandoning the "name" they helped out back then would be a slap in the face. That is why while I sometimes look at it and go "man, I was an idiot", I also smile while doing so.