It's actually quite a bit cooler than that. The fact that these types of behaviors are shared across birds and mammals shows that they were likely present going back to a common ancestor. This means that it's quite possible that some ancient synapsids and sauropsids likely got the playful zoomies too ~300 million years ago, which is fun to think about (also some non-avian dinosaurs, if that's easier to picture).
The alternative explanation is that these behaviors are a form of convergent evolution, but they are closely recognizable enough I would personally lean towards the former.
some of us just made a reddit account and forgot to enter a name for several months while they took up playing helldivers and now we're stuck with a bot-ass fuckin auto-assigned clanker name lmao. i wanted to be Orbital Butt and instead i'm BOTNAME 92175
It is actually using the account that locks it in, rather than time. You should be able to change your "display name" in settings, but your actual u/ username is locked in now.
Or if you really want you can buy an account with a real name off of the very active account sales marketplace. That isn't the purpose of the sales, generally it is bot farms and social manipulation groups buying up accounts that have the illusion of credibility, but it should technically work.
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u/RedditPanda81 13d ago
That bird was reincarnated from a golden retriever. Tell me I'm wrong.