> Why I ditched the orochibraru handle after years of losing a search war to a Naruto villain, and where the new name comes from.
> Source: https://zedensix.com/blog/orochibraru-to-zedensix · Site index: https://zedensix.com/llms.txt

# orochibraru is dead, long live zedensix

*12 November 2026*

If you landed here from an old orochibraru link: yes, it's still me. Same person, same projects, new name.

## The problem: I was losing to a cartoon snake

Search "orochibraru" and the internet helpfully decides you meant **Orochimaru**, the snake guy from Naruto. Every time.

That's the whole issue. A handle you can't find is a handle that doesn't work:

- People looking for my projects got fan wikis and cosplay instead
- My site was fighting a 20-year-old anime franchise for page one
- I was never going to win that fight, and I'm not going to pretend I was

So I stopped fighting and changed the name.

## Where zedensix comes from

**ZN6** is the chassis code of the Toyota GT86. I own one, I spend an unreasonable amount of time and money on it, and a fair chunk of what I build these days is for it (CAN bus gauges, ECU tuning tooling, that kind of thing).

ZN6, said out loud: **zed-en-six**. Done.

It's short, it means something to me, and nothing in pop culture is squatting on it. Search for it and you get me. Revolutionary concept.

# If it makes you think of "six seven", fuck you.

It's a chassis code. Not a meme. Go outside.

## What changes

- **Website:** orochibraru.com → **zedensix.com**
- **Handle:** orochibraru → **zedensix**
- I also grabbed **zednsix.com**, because someone will misspell it and I'd rather they end up here

## What doesn't

- The projects. Same code, same people (me), same questionable life choices.
- Me.

If you had something bookmarked under the old name, update it. If you didn't, welcome, I guess.

See you around as zedensix.