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What is a Modded Gamertag?
The Xbox Live online gaming service limits the type and number of characters that you can place into your online signature, called a gamertag. Those who hurriedly created an account to use their console are often stuck with unimaginative names, such as Jeff15 or XXAmyXX. Not that such names are necessarily bad, but they are so common that they inspire little interest in those who see them. Additionally, they express nothing about the personality of the person on the other side of the game. Using custom software, some users modify their gamer signatures to better tell the world more about themselves and alter them as they want, rather than being stuck with a singular tag in every game.
"Rick Roll" Meme Gamertags
The Internet shared experience can be informally codified into units of common consciousness called memes. Memes ultimately are like an inside joke for the masses. The "Rick Roll" meme (fooling an unsuspecting person into seeing Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" video) has made its way into popular media from "Family Guy" to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A funny idea for a gamer group is to each take a separate line of the song and make it into their gamertag, effectively "Rick Rolling" everyone in the game arena. Use the custom gamer symbols to finish the line, such as "Never gonna give you '" and "Never gonna let you ↓"
Popular Characters Gamertags
If you are a fan of a character from popular media, there is no reason not to share this fanaticism through your gamertag. With creative use of the various custom symbols, you can create a number of names in humorous ways. For example, if you place the "A button" icon next to the "Left Button" followed by US, you can create a colorful "ALBUS" gamertag naming yourself after the wizard headmaster from the "Harry Potter" universe. Other examples would be "BART" from "The Simpsons" or "RARiTY" from "My Little Pony." Any name that contains "A", "B", "L", "R", "X", "Y", "RB", "LB", "LT", or "RT" can be crafted using a custom tag.
Game Specific Tags
A clever and humorous gamertag often is best crafted specifically to match the game in which people will see it. In "Team Fortress," for example, there are a number of bizarre memes well suited for custom tags. The "baby eating heavy" joke is easy to reference given that you can spell "BABY" in multicolored custom symbols. In "Call of Duty," sometimes giving yourself a seemingly odd name can be funny because of how it describes a kill. For example, if you create a gamertag called "YouR LAck of skiLL" when you defeat someone, they will see, "You were killed by YouR LAck of skiLL." There are dozens of hilarious variants on this type of tag.