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Ep 3 – Marthah Maple | When a Gamertag Doesn’t Fit Anymore, and the 30s Era That Followed

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What happens when the gamertag you built your identity around doesn’t fit anymore?
This episode dives into gamertag rebrands, gamer identity shifts, and the quiet power of letting go.

Meet Marthah Maple, a Valorant duelist and competitive FPS player once known as GangstaBoo3000—a name she used to hide behind. When it stopped reflecting who she really was, she embraced a new era: quieter, softer, kinder, but no less powerful.

We Talk:

  • Gamertag evolution & online identity in gaming
  • Women in online shooters & navigating toxic lobbies
  • Twitch personas vs. IRL selves & reclaiming kindness
  • Discord lore, accidental usernames, & finding your authentic online voice
  • Valorant mains, cosmic pink hair, and choosing softness on purpose

🃏 In the ReRoll: Marthah co-creates her Gamertagged Trading Card—Star–Shot Silva, a glowing pink-haired elf with cosmic energy and quiet confidence.

Guest: Marthah Maple
Hosts: Scarto46 & Portabella
Produced By: Gamertagged Studios

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Scarto46:

Yeah, man, like Frodo's over here with like Aerosmith's daughter, and then all of a sudden it's like Mountain Dew. It's like I don't know how these things relate what? Yeah, there was a Mountain Dew commercial with like Game Attack. Hey, welcome to Gamertag. T his is episode three, and today we're going to be talking to Martha Maple. This episode explores what happens when we outgrow our names and the people we were when we chose them. Joining me tonight is Portabella, who will be our co-host and our editor for this episode of Gamertagged. Martha Maple's journey from Gangstaboo 3000 isn't just a username swap. It's a reflection of shifting identity, community and self-expression. Marthah, thanks for joining us tonight to talk about your evolution.

Marthah Maple:

Thank you. Thank you, I'm excited.

Scarto46:

We're super excited. This, this mic sounds amazing, by the way it does sound very good, yes wow, wow, okay, um, hey. So in the first part of this episode we're gonna jump into, like, um, your origin story, right. So when, uh, when you started let's like let's start at the beginning like your original gamer tag was not marthah maple, what were you and what do you remember about, like becoming that first gamer tag, or identity?

Marthah Maple:

yeah, um, I was gangsta boo 3000.

Scarto46:

Yeah.

Marthah Maple:

Yeah, I heard the shit out of that, you know. So I didn't come up with Gangsta Vu 3000 myself. I was pretty new to like the gaming space. My ex-husband was a big gamer and I kind of got to the point where I was like, if you can't beat him, join him.

Portabella:

Yeah.

Marthah Maple:

And coming up with a name was really hard, I'm not that creative. And he was spitballing and said gangsta boo from three, six mafia. And I was like that sounds pretty dope, so I went with gangsta boo. Uh, that one was taken and my favorite number is three, so I went for a three and that one. It just didn't feel right, so I added 3,000 to it bro, were you thinking like Andre?

Scarto46:

3,000 at the time, or what I?

Marthah Maple:

get that question all the time? I actually was not.

Portabella:

I mean, hey, you did it better, yeah yeah, all right, so you're.

Scarto46:

You're just like he. He gives you this name, right, like that's where you start, and so what? What is it like? Like you have your gamer tag for the first time, you're gangsta boo 3000. Do you introduce yourself to like people on the street as gangsta boo 3000, like? Is that how you roll?

Marthah Maple:

not at first, man, not at first. I think I had like a two-week stunt of streaming for a while there and then I did, and then I was like wait, hold up.

Scarto46:

Yeah, like that. What were you playing back then?

Marthah Maple:

A lot of Call of Duty. It's not something I'm proud of, but that's what I was doing.

Scarto46:

Like COD 2?.

Marthah Maple:

So I actually started on Black Ops 2.

Scarto46:

Oh yeah, okay cool.

Marthah Maple:

Dude, I think at that point I was still running into walls cause I couldn't figure out how to maneuver.

Portabella:

We all got to start somewhere.

Marthah Maple:

Right, dude, it was bad. I still I remember sitting there on the floor playing my Xbox and running into a wall and being like why am I getting nowhere?

Scarto46:

So 3000, right, like you said, you, you, you, your favorite number is your favorite number three. Yeah, okay, all right. So 3000, it's like futuristic, it sounds cool, like so, nothing to do with Andre, it's just like, hey, I'm going to pick the number Boom, 3000. I love it, that's. That's really big energy. By the way, that kind of fits Big energy. Yeah, that's who? Gangsta?

Marthah Maple:

Boo was.

Scarto46:

Oh, okay, all right. Can you describe what Gangsta Boo was? I think that would be awesome. You know, Gangsta Boo, she didn't give a f**k okay, she was going into lobby, she was talking, she was making friends with everybody um couldn't back up any of her, but she sure was talking it so do you think you were better at talking than you were like shooting bullets back in the day?

Portabella:

for sure hell yeah, dude hell yeah, for sure hell, yeah, it just it seems crazy because just talking to you, you seem like such like the opposite of what you're describing. Was that part of the, is that part of the appeal of being gangsta boo to you? Or because it seems like it's completely different?

Marthah Maple:

yeah, no for sure. Uh, gangsta boo is definitely like a personality that I could hide behind. Um, in real life I'm like very reserved, very quiet. It kind of takes a little bit to get to know me and get me out of my shell, um, but gangsta boo being online and just playing games for the f**k of it, it really gave me an outlet to let those parts of my personality shine that don't naturally shine in real life.

Portabella:

Yeah, it's a way to kind of be not necessarily a more truer self, but to be more an elevated version of yourself in that way.

Marthah Maple:

Yeah, exactly, exactly. That's a really good way of putting it, yeah exactly, exactly.

Scarto46:

That's a really good way of putting it. That's wild, bro, cause I, I, I mean you've always had like every time. If so, you have a huge personality, right? Like I was saying earlier, we've hung out a couple of times but I mean, yeah, you're really good at prop hunt, you know what I mean. Like that's like your top top 10 in the world at prop hunt, right, or something like that. Top three, top three Top three yeah, yeah, got it.

Marthah Maple:

And I do that on purpose, because I want to stay at three. That's my favorite number.

Scarto46:

Looking for the bronze medal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, make some eyes pop, so like. So I have this problem a lot right, like there's a lot of SCARTOs, s-c-a-r-t-o, like that's pretty common. Like I don't know, I thought I was super original and super cool. Apparently, like every time I try to like create an account, like that can happen where there's like multiple Scartos, so like I'm now Scarto 46 and everyone's like oh, you're lame, cause you got numbers after your name. Yeah, I mean, I've got that a lot. It's cool. So like, have you ever had that problem where you're like trying to, you know, like create or engage with someone and they had that gangsta boo name? Was that a problem that you experienced?

Marthah Maple:

Not since I added the 3000. I've never run it. I honestly I've run into people that have like gangsta something, but I don't think I've ever run into a gangsta boo, and surely not a gangsta boo 3000.

Scarto46:

I've never had that issue securing that did you ever feel lame because of your numbers? Anyone make fun of you? Absolutely not, dude. That makes it cooler. Yeah, that's what I said, bro. That's what I said too, so that's right. Yeah, um. So I, when we were talking um, or I think you know, before you said there was a moment like there's a real, there was a real gangsta boo like on twitch. Is that right?

Marthah Maple:

uh, so she was actually a rapper for three, six mafia oh, word, word.

Scarto46:

So you really thought about reaching out to the gangsta, gangsta boo from three, six mafia?

Marthah Maple:

I actually did reach out to her because I was considering taking Twitch streaming a little more seriously. I wanted to kind of like make it a brand and I started getting hung up on the well, am I kind of violating any kind of?

Scarto46:

Yeah, infringement, yeah exactly.

Marthah Maple:

So I found her on Instagram and I shot her a message and I bet I could pull it up. Okay, so I found it.

Marthah Maple:

Yes, excellent, I can't wait Okay so the message I sent her was really long, but it was basically just like hey, I'm a nobody and I want to stream on Twitch. I've been using Gangstaboo3000 as my name, like is there an issue with that? Is it okay if I use that? Do I have your permission, do you have any thoughts on it, type thing. And she responded to me within an hour, by the way, which I thought was pretty dope.

Marthah Maple:

I was like look at me, look at me, go Uh. But she said my name is Gangsta Boo, not Gangsta Boo 3000. Those are my thoughts. I was like very well thanks.

Scarto46:

Wow, All right. Well, I think like we've kind of talked through the Gangsta Boo 3000. So is there anything else like you want to add on about that particular time in your identity Right, Like that, like where? Your identity right Like that, like where you were, like how you were thinking, or maybe not like. Maybe that likes gives you a good perspective of it, but I don't know, I think.

Marthah Maple:

I think that's about the gist, like. I mean, really in that time I was just kind of figuring out who I was as a gamer, what I was into, kind of the circles I wanted to run in and game in, you know.

Scarto46:

So like that's not your name anymore, you don't go by gangsta boo 3000 anymore. Um, so like we're going to shift into that.

Portabella:

Yeah, it's more so because right now, obviously, your name is Martha Maples and we were really curious what sparked what sparked the idea to change your name, and not only that, to change it to Martha, of all things uh, so the name change was a long time coming.

Marthah Maple:

Um, I had left my ex-husband and the name was given to me by my ex-husband, and so it felt like kind of a skin I needed to shed in a way. Um, and in addition to that, having boo in my name, um invited some unwelcome comments and stuff from male gamers that you know it's. It's just weird to be playing like a competitive shooter and to be called boo every round.

Scarto46:

I didn't like that and so it was time to like especially when you're dunking on them.

Marthah Maple:

That's what I'm saying. That's embarrassing for them. I don't know why they would want to go that route.

Scarto46:

So when did your name change? Like what? So you were headed towards a name change like. You said like, but like what? Was there like a moment like that? This happened like.

Marthah Maple:

Um, there was, it was um, so it was. It took me years to finally find Martha and like it. Martha was the first name in years that felt right to me and I didn't want to change my name until it was something that like, I liked and felt right. Um, and so I think it was like 2021, 2020, maybe, maybe 2020. Um, I was playing Valorant and.

Marthah Maple:

Um, I was in a lobby with some canadian gamers and one of them was a woman that had a twitch channel and she linked it at the end of the game and I was like all right dope, so I went to check her out, give her a view. Um, and we got to talking in there and it turned out that they were also 30 something year old gamers, which kind of a hard find, kind of a rare find. So I was like, oh, this is cool, like people my age that play the games I like to play. Um, they invited me into their discord server and the first couple of times I went in there, we would just like kind of play games, shoot the shit.

Marthah Maple:

Uh, and eventually I gave them my real name and I'm not sure why I did that. It's not something that I usually do um, but I gave them my real name and then I think one of the people in the server kind of realized that I felt weird about giving my real name. So the next time I joined he was like, oh yeah, you said your name was Martha, right? And? And at first I was like why is he calling me Martha? That's not my name. And he kept calling me Martha and it kind of stuck. And then there was this other guy in the server oh, he's a goofy guy, he's a really nice guy but he's not the brightest bulb and so he changed my Discord server profile to to Martha, but he put an h at the end hell yeah, as soon as I saw that, I was like that's it, I'm.

Scarto46:

Martha, that's amazing one, that is super cool that that dude was like oh yeah, um, your name is Martha, right, like that. That's, that's super cool. Uh, but, dude, who were you? So you said there was years in between, right, like, who were you in between?

Marthah Maple:

I was still gangsta boo and hating it I didn't want to be gangsta boo anymore, yeah, but I couldn't. I I was not creative enough to find something on my own. I guess that, like, really felt right.

Scarto46:

I felt like everything that I was coming up was like very 90s aol, yeah yeah it's, it's so hard like, um, it's like you're trying to put a label or you're trying to like yeah, what is the right way to say this? It's like you're trying to to name something that you can't see, but you feel or you think about and it's got to like fit you, and that, like that time in between is like real weird, right, like you know, you're not that thing anymore and you're trying to make a decision and like I think it's hard for everybody to like, maybe not maybe some people like, yeah, just a random name generator, but like it's kind of like how you represent yourself to the the world, you know. And so I totally get that like in between time. And when you, when you said that Martha fit, like what was, what was it about that? Like it was just like it just like made sense. Is that what you're saying?

Marthah Maple:

I think it was the flair of the h at the end. I was like I could represent that that's different without being too different. Martha is a very unassuming name and I felt like it kind of fit the era of my life that I was in. I wasn't um, like gangsta boo. She was the life of the party in every party that she was in, you know um, yeah, yeah and Martha.

Marthah Maple:

It just kind of I had gotten away from that. I was feeling more secure in myself and my online identity and I let my gaming speak for itself, you know like my skill in the games rather than like my personality. Um.

Scarto46:

So I was like, yeah, it could be Martha, like you had grown to a point where you're like, yeah, I'm confident in, like I mean no one, no one knows this but like you're you're really good at competitive shooters, you know. So like yeah, no, you're scary Good, but like you've gotten to this point where you're like you're like ready to it's like you right. And I think what's cool about what you're talking about is like who you were when you were younger, like fit that model, but who you grew into no longer made sense Like of your relationship, just your personality. You grew as a person and you're like dude. I gotta figure out how do I represent that to other people Exactly. That dude somewhere right now is probably still misspelling Martha. You know that right.

Marthah Maple:

Dude, he's misspelling everything. I think he has a four-letter name and, Dude, he's misspelling everything. I think he has a four-letter name and I think he probably misspells that.

Scarto46:

Fucking love that. I love that guy. I don't even know him, but like.

Portabella:

He's doing his best out there, that's all we can ask for.

Marthah Maple:

He's the sweetest guy. He means so well.

Scarto46:

Yeah, but put him in a spelling bee and he's getting dumpstered. He's done. What were y'all playing on the Canadian server, valorant?

Marthah Maple:

Valorant and CSGO.

Scarto46:

Oh my God See, I don't, bro. I don't understand. Okay, like separate note. I don't understand why people love Counter-Strike or Valorant. It's round-based and you get, okay for me, all right. Younger version of me would get on Counter-Strike because that was a thing back in the day and I was like, yeah, man, I'm going to play Counter-Strike. And then I'd buy all the stuff, I'd walk one foot out the door and just get ripped like dead right, and I don't like that experience for me. Maybe that was like, maybe it's just trauma, like childhood trauma, right, but my experience with like Counter-Strike has always been like, not that I'm getting better, it's just that I am a piñata, that's probably the best way to describe it.

Portabella:

You know, maybe shooters just aren't for you. Maybe that's the problem.

Scarto46:

I played shooters my entire life, just the shooters that required me to get shot more than once. And in those games, like you get shot, you're done. What is it that?

Marthah Maple:

you love about those games that I just don't get. You know it's it's tough to play them when you're getting on, but when you're doing the one shitting, when you're doing the one shitting, when you're the one doing this, yeah, oh yeah, it's the best whenever you're around it's, this is back to your, this is back to your, your big energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, bro, absolutely absolutely, and like it's funny too because, like you know, especially with counter-strike, there's lobbies that a woman just cannot talk in what do do you?

Scarto46:

so this is this is like me asking a question. Like when you say, like there are like lobbies that a woman cannot talk in, like what do you mean by that? Like cause it's just like you're everyone's, like oh, it's a girl. First time I saw a girl like that kind of thing.

Marthah Maple:

I mean, if it's just a oh, it's a girl, it's a girl that's I, a girl that's I, can handle that. It's when they start shitting on you for being a girl, um, harassing you, cussing you out, throwing the game team killing, all that kind of stuff. That happens a lot yeah, I don't.

Scarto46:

I don't understand that. Um, mostly because male, female, whatever, dude like everybody's playing, having fun, man, like don't be a, it's all there is. Like it's just don't be a dick. Also, if you're really worried about like your orientation, like there's probably other things to worry about. You know like what? Why not worry about like meteors hitting the earth? Why not like worry about like recycling? You know what I mean. Like just worry about something else. It's so dumb.

Portabella:

Isn't that one of those things where they, from my experience, it's almost like they're just not confident enough in themselves. So the idea that someone else who is not the same gender as them, or regardless of whatever gender they are, and they get so intimidated by that fact that they have to project it towards the air quotes weakest player or who looks the weakest?

Scarto46:

their insecurities become your problem bro, I learned so much about what I think good dudes look like from being afraid of my mother and raising a daughter or being part of her life. Like, like, that's it. Like seeing the world like is created for women through her eyes. I'm like, well, I just need to like crush everyone that is an asshole Right. Or like create safe spaces where people can like do shit. Like she her existence drives 80% of the way that I engage with the planet. All right, so let's talk about Martha Maple.

Marthah Maple:

Let's talk about her, okay.

Scarto46:

So who are you today, right, like in the lens of this name, like as Martha with a silent H or you know whatever? Who are you today Like, wow, can you describe what, what, what it looks like, what it feels like, like color shapes, energy, like? Who is martha maple? Uh?

Marthah Maple:

I mean colors. It's got to be pink, um, but I I guess, like martha, is just somebody that wants to spread kindness.

Scarto46:

She's chill, laid back, shapes and energy I don't know like, if you thought about it right, like even just like inspirations, like what, like?

Portabella:

what worlds do you see martha in, if that makes sense yeah, yeah, exactly martha's in outer space, for sure outer space.

Scarto46:

Okay, like like on mars no, she's just floating out there.

Marthah Maple:

She's in the milky way with all the pretty colors swirling around her and stars and planets in the distance uh-huh.

Scarto46:

But she's like, is she like, uh, she's like dressed in like, uh, armor, or she's just like drifting man, she's just chilling just chilling.

Marthah Maple:

She's just laid back, taking it all in okay she's like.

Scarto46:

That actually makes martha super terrifying because, like she's not outwardly aggressive, right, she's like scared I'm at peace yeah, you're at peace, bro. You're making decisions. You're like, yeah, whatever, it's fine that's cool that's freaking awesome, okay, um, so she's drifting through space and she's uh, there's a lot of pink and you're in the stars of the milky way. Um, does she have like a? She have like a weapon on or anything? Nah, she's just like jean shorts and a t-shirt like YOLO 420?

Marthah Maple:

You know, okay, martha would be wearing something like. See, it doesn't make sense, for space, though, is the problem.

Scarto46:

Doesn't matter.

Marthah Maple:

If it makes sense, bro, it's all about leaning towards like a lord of the rings, elven vibe. She's got like a bow and arrow and a really cool cape and hood do you love lord of the rings?

Scarto46:

I love lord of the rings. Let's go. I have this debate all the time and everyone's like, oh no, I love Star Wars and I'm like I don't even want to talk to you anymore. No, what? Yeah, lamos, right, like, come on, lord of the Rings is where it's at.

Marthah Maple:

Here's the thing Star Wars is good. Don't get me wrong, I was Star Wars, whereas Lord of the Rings I have to watch that at minimum. Marathon it twice a year At minimum.

Scarto46:

So this is going to determine the fate of our future friendship. Okay, so this is a simple question that I need you to answer. The simple question is which Lord of the Rings is the Lord of the Rings?

Marthah Maple:

That is true, yes, they're also good in their different ways, but think it's got to be, uh, the two towers, because the battles in it.

Scarto46:

Let's go that. That is the best. So every time like I'm not feeling good or I'm like I want to chill or whatever that I put, I literally put that movie on and I play it all the way and I watch it and the girls are like this psychopath sat downstairs for three hours watching the stupid movie and I have watched it a thousand times, but two hours because it's so much progression from like yeah, man, we were just hanging out and like Frodo found this ring, to like bro, we're doing Helms Deep over here and like that movie is fire.

Marthah Maple:

Yeah, I know that movie is so good. I cannot relate to just watching one out of sequence, randomly, though I have to watch them. If I'm watching one, I'm watching them all.

Scarto46:

When you think about the original Lord of the Rings, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? First word Legolas. Okay, well, that wasn't mine. Wow, I don't know what you Wow. I mean you asked I don't know what you expected.

Scarto46:

I thought we were vibing, but now I understand. So mine is Mountain Dew. Okay, do you remember those commercials back in the day where it's like, yeah, man, like Frodo's over here with like Aerosmith's daughter, and then all of a sudden it's like Mountain Dew. It's like wow, I don't know how these things relate like yeah, there was a Mountain Dew commercial with like Frodo getting like Liv Tyler is like taking.

Scarto46:

Frodo across the river right, is it Liv Tyler? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it's like Red Mountain Dew is out now, code red, and I'm like what the fuck are you talking about? That's funny.

Marthah Maple:

I lived overseas when it came out, so I wouldn't have seen that commercial, but that sounds fucking hilarious.

Scarto46:

I'm gonna have to look that up on youtube like the most american thing ever, where it's like, yeah, don't worry, we're gonna. We're gonna save the, we're gonna save the ring. But, by the way, do you want to buy some mountain dew, like what?

Marthah Maple:

everybody's like of course I do, I think mine's definitely gonna be be probably the Shire.

Portabella:

That's the first thing that came to my brain.

Marthah Maple:

Oh man, I want to live in a hobbit. I actually just recently got a tattoo on my arm of a hobbit hole.

Scarto46:

That's freaking awesome. Can I tell you another story right now? So, portabella, we used to play Minecraft together.

Portabella:

I don't know if we used to pool, oh yeah, actually. No, it continued, we definitely did and I'll tell you how this happened.

Scarto46:

I learned a brutal lesson. I built a hobbit hole, mostly because I didn't know how to build crazy stuff, so I dug a hole in the ground. I dug a hole in the ground, I put a goat in there. I did all kinds of stuff. There was like a water fountain. I thought it was cool. She moved in with me for like probably two hours and then she started like trying to make the hobbit hole perfect and I'm like no dude, it doesn't have, it's just, it's just a hole.

Portabella:

You know, like you, don't have just a dirt hole. You had to add some like floors, and it was homie no, dude, you didn't have to be homie hello it was homie-ish, like me and my goat were fine until she moved in.

Scarto46:

Yeah, totally. She moved in and then here's here's the crazier part of this story she goes out. I think I've heard enough. She moves out. Right, this is, this is a. It was a. It was like a precursor to understanding how life would go. She moves out, she builds her own house. Her house is gorgeous. She's like oh look, I even built a roller coaster in my house and i'm'm like I did not do that.

Scarto46:

No, I'm still planting freaking seeds for my hobbit hole. And then we had a graveyard where our first horse was and his name was Glue. That she named Fuck what she's psychopath.

Portabella:

That is not no. No, that did not happen.

Scarto46:

It kind of happened like that. Who do you believe?

Marthah Maple:

I believe Portabella.

Scarto46:

Well, you also know that you're siding with evil.

Portabella:

So earlier when we were talking, you were kind of describing your gangstaboo name almost like an era of your life, and it's interesting to say that you kind of view them as what seems, seems like almost like time stamps. Um, what does Martha, in terms of like an era of your life capture, like where you are right now?

Marthah Maple:

um, so when you think of Martha, you don't really think of somebody like young and hip, right. Uh, I'm in my. I'm in my 30s era man. I'm in my 30s era man. I still game, obviously, but I'm also teaching myself how to crochet, I'm doing puzzles and reading books more and I feel like Martha just kind of fits that better. It fits the more relaxed era of my life that I'm in, where I'm not trying so hard, I'm just enjoying the now, whereas Gangsta Boo is very much trying hard.

Scarto46:

You're telling me that you crochet and play Valorant. You're so multi-talented. That's insane.

Marthah Maple:

Dude, and they're so different right.

Scarto46:

So like what do you crochet?

Marthah Maple:

So right now I've just been doing a lot of like stuffies um, oh, yeah, okay yeah, um, but I wanted to uh blanket here soon. I found a really cool pattern all right.

Scarto46:

So, um, how has your relationship with, like, your identity changed since you became Martha? Like, you talked a lot about you know, like the shit. By the way, I want to go back on that. Like you said, 30 year old, I'm on the 30s gamers they have. 30s gamers are cool. Okay, like we're the only people who've seen it all, anyway. So, yeah, 30s gamers are cool. That's a that's a thing that we should leave in. 30s gamers are cool. That's a thing that we should leave in. 30s gamers are the best. Come get some. Yeah, for real, how has your relationship with identity changed since becoming Martha? Like, what's that evolution been like for you? Maybe like in person, or like online, or what's happened with that?

Marthah Maple:

um, so when I first started changing everything to Martha, I didn't at first. It was just uh, I'm just changing my name, I'm not changing anything about myself. Um, and I went into a twitch chat that I had been in prior and the streamer record stall my comment. Something that I commented and was like oh uh, I've never seen your name before, but, um, it's not saying that you're a first time chatter. And I was like oh no, no, no, I like I've been here for a while, it's gangsta boo. And he was like oh shit, okay cool, you like had a rebrand. And someone in this chat was like oh wow, like the rebrand to from gangsta boo to Martha is like a total one 80.

Marthah Maple:

And I had to take like a step back, a step back and be like, oh it actually is like I never, like they have very, very different implications and when I started looking into that I just kind of realized that, like I am in my low key era, what do you mean?

Scarto46:

implications? So like, when you say implications, what do you mean by that?

Marthah Maple:

I mean OK. So when I was getting through 3000. People see the name and they make an assumption of what Gangsta Boo 3000 is going to talk like or what they're going to sound like.

Scarto46:

Yeah.

Marthah Maple:

So when I would speak, people would always be caught off guard. They'd be like oh, what do you mean? Your name is gangsta 3000. Like what the hell is this you? Know, I played into that a lot, but you don't expect to hear like this shrill voice and like bubbly personality coming from gangsta boo 3000, but you would be more inclined to believe it to come from martha yeah, I get you.

Scarto46:

I understand what you mean by that. That's cool. So like they recognize that you have like the same avatar or whatever when you were in their chat. So what happened?

Marthah Maple:

I think I changed it. I think I just I changed like my picture, I changed my name, I changed like all my socials oh word.

Scarto46:

So they were like you're totally new here and they were just like yeah, let me like. Yeah, yeah, that's cool, that's super cool rebrand. I like that. I like that. Someone said it was a rebrand I know me too.

Marthah Maple:

I like that too.

Portabella:

I was like oh shit, I did rebrand myself, huh so what like so, in terms of a rebrand, you seem like you're so comfortable in yourself now, at this point in your life. Do you think you'd have any advice that Martha would have any advice to give to Gangsta Boo now?

Marthah Maple:

Yeah, I would tell her to calm down. Don't try so hard, just chill and, like the people that are meant to be in your life long term, will be in your life long term. You don't have to try and be a persona in order to make that happen, just relax.

Scarto46:

I freaking love that dude yeah gangsta was high strung man she was intense, I mean she was a lot I think, um, I think that's really good advice, which is like I think it's so cool that you could like look back at the different sides of yourself and be like man. I just needed to chill out, yeah, but like when you're when you were starting out, when you're young, you're like you know you're taught when you're young, like you gotta go. When you're young, you're like you know you're taught when you're young like you gotta go get it and like hustle and push and you know and you know. But I love that.

Marthah Maple:

You're like dude, just chill out, it'll all work out you know, I think that, um, I don't know, maybe I'll change my uh gamer tag when I hit my 40s and I'm entering into a new era, because I really think that Gangsta Boo was very 20s and Martha Maple is very 30s. I might return to her in my 60s. I feel that Hell yeah, but who knows what's in store for my 40s.

Scarto46:

What would you say to someone who's like, who's like in an identity today and like, feel stuck and like you know I mean that happens. Right, like where we're, we've been a thing for a while and that creates expectations about like who we have to be in social circles or or whatever. Right, like. But what would you say to someone who's like stuck in a name that doesn't fit anymore?

Marthah Maple:

I'd probably just tell them that it can be scary, but to just start the process of letting go. It's okay to like grow out of things. It's okay to grow out of friend circles or games or whatever it is. It's not something that you have to rush. Let it happen the way that it happens, but don't put too much pressure on yourself that is great advice.

Scarto46:

I love it. We've kind of talked around this a little bit. Um, we talked about a little bit earlier, but what is the competitive gaming scene like for you?

Marthah Maple:

uh, you know I love my competitive games, but I really go into them. I'm just trying to have fun and I'm just trying to get better, like as a shooter. Um, I'm trying to work on my game sense and stuff. So I really I don't take it too seriously, but I am trying to win Um. So when you get a good team, you get a good team and you guys vibe well and you play better, um, uh, being a woman, it can. It's a. It's a bit of a 50, 50 on whether or not you're going to have a good chill team where everybody acts normal though Um, and then, especially as a woman, once they know that you're a woman and you're having a bad game, that's it like.

Scarto46:

You might as well mute all comms, turn off your headset and just zone out for the rest of the game yeah, I mean because because in that, in that world, like it's all about comms, like you you're not winning and you have to win through comms, so like if you're making calls or whatever, or you're engaging, and like you're always having to put yourself out there, I guess is the point I'm making, like that you are a female, that you are like playing the game that can create a lot of different scenarios for you yeah, for sure.

Marthah Maple:

I have to be very hyper aware in every lobby that I get into and kind of wait for a couple of other people to stay, staff to kind of get their vibe and know if it, if it's going to go south if I speak or not yeah, and for clarification, just so I can kind of clarify what types of like competitive games.

Portabella:

Games are your bread and butter, what type of competitive games do you love to play and stuff, or good at at that too.

Marthah Maple:

Valorant and CS and I've been getting into it. I don't know if you can necessarily consider it a competitive game or a competitive shooter, but I really enjoy the finals. Me and my little brother have been playing that a lot recently and it's a lot of fun. We kind of shred.

Scarto46:

That's dope dude. The finals are at the end. You get the bag. Yeah, you're competing for teams of four. Is it duos or is it teams of four?

Marthah Maple:

Teams of three. It's four teams of three going against each other.

Scarto46:

That's legit.

Marthah Maple:

It's a good time, it's um, it's kind of similar into as um call of duty, um, in that you can kind of run around and do a little bit of like spray and pray. In that you can kind of run around and do a little bit of like spray and pray, but it does still have like some strategy involved in it if you really want to like go through the tournament so.

Scarto46:

So, like in the in the game, do you feel like you're because you know there's different roles when you're playing comp, like, are you like a flanker? Because you have the attitude of a flanker? So I'm trying to figure out. It's like is that your vibe? Um in valorant.

Marthah Maple:

I'm a flanker in the finals. I really do have that big dick energy and it's in valorant. It's called the duelist. It's the person that makes the first contact, gets in there, gets information and tries to at least get a pick two if they're lucky that's badass, yeah, yeah which one you?

Marthah Maple:

can get one to two, you can open up the round for your team to win pretty easily because you'll have a numbers advantage even if you get picked off you love playing the meta right, like you're always like, because if I can play the numbers game, I take two what's uh you're?

Scarto46:

they're down to your rest of your teams up, like that's your whole game with that in theory.

Scarto46:

In theory, people throw a lot unintentionally just so we're clear, I might be one of those players. Yeah, you know what, like uh, I'm guilty of it too. Well, I am such a feeder, like. So I always thought that term like back in, like I was playing, lol, like a long time ago, and like they were like I. I was like man, I'm going to be a jungler bro, and they were like because you know, the Internet is the Internet, I was going to, I was going to go jungle, and then all I would do is I'd pop out in a lane and just get dumpstered.

Scarto46:

All right, we're going to take a quick break and we'll come right back with Reroll, all right, so we're going to start our reroll segment and on reroll, what we do is we've we've listened to your story and so we have, we've taken notes as we've kind of gone through your story and there are key personality traits, uh, preferred roles that you might take, or game gameplay roles that you might take, favorite genres and worlds, a signature style or vibe about you, and then visual inspiration, and so we're going to take all of those and feed them into a bot and then create a picture of you, and so you get two re-rolls. That's the game we're playing. You have two re-rolls after the first roll and you can choose to change anything you want about the picture that's created of you. But after your second re-roll you'll get a title, a card, and then we'll take that and our designer will turn that into an official gamer tag, trading card.

Marthah Maple:

Awesome, cool, yeah. Question about the re-rolls Is it a full re-roll or is it like I can change an aspect?

Scarto46:

so you can change whatever you want. You could change it, you could. Well, I should say this differently. So we have a set of things that we're going to feed the bot, um, but you could change aesthetically whatever you want to change, does that?

Marthah Maple:

make sense. Yeah.

Scarto46:

Cool, I'm going to share my screen and then Portabella is going to walk through what we have learned about you throughout this interview.

Marthah Maple:

That'll be interesting.

Portabella:

So I've been, as we've been talking, I've been writing a little bit down, basically based on vibes, things you have told us about your style and stuff like that. None of them bad, obviously. They're all good things in my opinion. Let's start with personality traits. So immediately you seem like the most bubbly, energetic person ever and you talk later about how you really try to spread kindness everywhere you go, and even games and people are not as kind to you, and so that was another big one. And then just you have this over like almost like a 180 flip. You have this edginess about you that is I don't know how else to explain besides like it. It's just a Like. I wrote later on that you have like this badass energy. It's where it comes from. So that's personality traits.

Portabella:

Preferred roles in gameplay You're kind of like a jack-of-all-trades. You're a shooter, you infiltrate, you're flanking, you're a team player, sometimes MVP, depending on how well you're doing for your team. That's a way I am. So overall I put chameleon because it seems like when we were talking, you kind of shift into the different roles that you're needed in. So that was the best way I could combine all of those In terms of your favorite genres, slash worlds in games or anything like that.

Portabella:

Uh, we have call of duty, prop hunt, valorant, counter-strike and lord the rings, whole things you kind of mentioned throughout while we were talking in terms of signature style or vibe. Pink is definitely the the main, the main thing, and some blue, but mainly pink. Um, you said your favorite number was three. We'll see if it incorporates any of that. This is where I wrote down badass energy because you'd have to have it. And then the overall like name is just kind of what you're saying when you're late. You're a very laid-back person, almost like effort, effortlessly cool, in that way of just like I'm just gonna let the cards fall and see what happens. And then, lastly, visual inspiration. You kind of envision like this character of Martha being in space, in this Milky Way, ethereal looking, floating aspect and being more of like leaning towards elven styles from lord of the rings, but just in general. So that's kind of all the things uh, me and scarto kind of picked up throughout this interview with you hell yeah, y'all flatter me too much badass energy hell yeah, I'm writing that on my.

Marthah Maple:

I'm getting a tattoo yeah, all right.

Scarto46:

So we're going to now roll the first re-roll and we'll get a picture and see what it looks like. Are you ready?

Marthah Maple:

all right, let's do it. I think it's so funny that you put one of my key personality traits is edginess, because I have an inside joke with a friend from like a decade ago where I got like a faux leather jacket at one point and he was like oh, that's kind of nice. I was like, yeah, I'm edgy. So now every time we talk he's like oh no, I forgot, I'm sorry you're edgy yeah, look at this big, bright background you have.

Scarto46:

You have the stars behind you, you have the Milky Way galaxy. You have a bow in your hand, like you talked about, although there's nothing fletching that arrow. Um, so this is like the first roll. Um, she's got blue hair, so maybe we can change that. You change anything you want about this, um, but you get two re-s.

Marthah Maple:

Okay, okay, I'd like to take away the armor and add a cloak, and I want pink hair.

Scarto46:

Okay, I added take away the armor and add a cloak and please make her have pink hair, is there?

Marthah Maple:

anything else you want to add to this picture?

Scarto46:

No, I think that's it. All right, let's see what happens on your next re-roll. Oh, you have a cloak now. I kept the three.

Portabella:

This is super cute. So for our listeners, right now we have a humanoid, elf-looking character with bright pink hair, purple cloak, pink tunic with a three on it and just a bone arrow in space. That's where we're at right now.

Marthah Maple:

That actually looks so cool. The only thing I wish looked better was the bow and arrow. I'm in the middle of it and I only have half of an arrow.

Scarto46:

Yeah, that's true. You have the arrow in the it's already fleshed and you're in the middle of the bow. You have the arrow in the it's already fleshed and you're in the middle of the bow. So we, could you know a way to do this? Might be like I want her to be drawing the arrow and like shooting it at a target, or maybe not. Maybe that's bad advice, but you get one more reroll and then that will be final. So, however you want to word this, can word it.

Marthah Maple:

I actually like that. I think it would be cool if it looked like I was about to shoot the arrow at the camera. I also love how her smile is so big again it's like this, wide, like cheshire grin on your face so what do you think about that prompt?

Scarto46:

So the prompt I wrote was can you make this look like she is aiming the bow and pulling it back like an archer at the camera?

Marthah Maple:

I think it's good, mm-hmm.

Scarto46:

Is there anything else you want to change Aesthetically? You could say, hey, I want to have like magic going on around me or whatever.

Marthah Maple:

Oh no, I was was gonna say I want like a forest tree, like a pine or something behind me or like near me, next to me.

Scarto46:

but that's weird because I'm in space well, maybe, maybe there is a tree on this planet where there you go.

Marthah Maple:

That's true. That's true. Put me in grass with with like a nice pretty tree behind or near.

Scarto46:

I'm going to work on this prompt, so, um, can you tell me, tell me exactly what you'd like me to put in here?

Marthah Maple:

Add grass instead of a dirt road and um some kind of greenery.

Scarto46:

What about the bow? Do you want to? You want to keep the bow, the blue color, like that? Yeah.

Marthah Maple:

I like the blow. The bow looks really cool All right, cool.

Scarto46:

So, uh, what I added was um, add grass instead of the dirt and please put trees into the shot. Also, make the three a led three. This is your final re-roll, so is there anything else you?

Marthah Maple:

want to change about it. No, just to remind it to keep the pink hair.

Scarto46:

Alright, we're going to keep the pink hair, so please keep the pink hair. Are you ready to re-roll?

Marthah Maple:

Yup.

Scarto46:

Usually, whenever I like talk about LEDs, it's like a real bright color and then it like starts to pop. Oh, it's so cool. Oh, this looks freaking dope.

Portabella:

The trees are peeking out. Yeah, all right.

Marthah Maple:

I'm going to have to make my next Walters gate three character a half elf that looks so good so far.

Scarto46:

It's so cool, dude.

Marthah Maple:

What is the three? Look at the three just glowing away.

Scarto46:

I'm not sneaking up on anyone, that's okay. I mean, you might be, oh dude, that's it that's so cool. All right, so um your title. All right, so it's one. What do you think about this picture?

Marthah Maple:

oh, I love it you love it. Okay, there's nothing that I would change about it at this point that's freaking awesome.

Scarto46:

Um, all right, so your title is star shot silva. Pink haired elf grows. Uh sorry, pink haired elf draws a glowing bow deep in the forest. Led3, blazing, cosmic, cool, locked and loaded hell yeah that's your card, so your title will be the Star Shot Silva, that's freaking dope dude.

Marthah Maple:

That is super cool.

Scarto46:

Cool man. That's awesome. So thanks for doing Reroll with us. I hope we got a good representation of like. This is Martha Maple.

Marthah Maple:

I think. So I think, yeah, I mean you guys really let me drone on.

Scarto46:

so I feel like we didn't miss yeah, never miss, bro, never miss, um, all right. So, uh, the next 30 seconds are all yours. Whatever you want to talk about, whatever you want to shout out, like whatever, anything you want to talk about that you're doing or that you want to promote, or whatever, it's all yours.

Marthah Maple:

I don't really have anything to promote. I think the only thing I would want to say is kindness is free and make sure, whatever space you're in, try and lead with kindness. It doesn't take anything from you.

Scarto46:

I love it. Kindness is free.

Marthah Maple:

Kindness is free man.

Scarto46:

Yeah, man for sure.

Marthah Maple:

Yeah, being kind, people say. People say that, uh, being hateful is free too, but it's really not, because it takes a toll on like your heart and your soul Totally, whereas kindness just lifts that up.

Scarto46:

One, Martha, thank you so much for coming on and like hanging out with us and telling us your story. We love having you on and we love hanging out. It was great. And two, like I love that message. Like it's all about kindness because, like, especially in the world we live in, on the Internet, it's always easy to like write something to somebody, but like it's cool man, Like the cool thing, is like to be nice and like lead with kindness. Like you, cool man, Like the cool thing is like to be nice and like lead with kindness.

Marthah Maple:

like you said Exactly, the internet is so anonymous, but at the same time, it's really not because you carry that stuff with you. You know what you've said. I know what I said 10 years ago, you know.

Scarto46:

Yeah Well, cool. Well, that's going to do it for this episode of Gamertagged. Martha, thank you so much for coming on and hanging out with us. We super appreciated it.

Marthah Maple:

Portabellas anything else you'd like to say Not really. Thanks for listening Cool.

Scarto46:

Thanks for having me guys. So thank you for joining us. We really appreciate it. Thank you all for joining us for this episode of Gamertag. See you on the next one. Gamertag is produced by the team at Gamertag Studios, hosted by Scarto46, with original music by Ryan Osiris, editing by Isabella Sunder and visual design by Sushi at Opal and Eek. That's a wrap for this episode of Gamertag. We hope you felt today's story and maybe saw a little bit of yourself in it too. To help power the podcast, follow, like and subscribe. It means so much to us. Want to see the re-roll card? Join our Discord. You'll find everything episodes, cards and our crew at GamertagPodcastcom Until next time. Transmission ending Goodbye.