Posted on Oct 27, 2011 Updated on Jun 3, 2021, 1:53 am CDT
What if Coldplay was instead named Coldpause? Or the Beatles were the Moths?
These sorts of questions have been on the minds of more than 16,000 Twitter users this morning. Since about 6 a.m. ET, the hashtag #lessexcitingbandnames has been a worldwide trending topic.
Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.
