@judgedread I mean, I get the domain availability thing; it is my industry. I think it's insufficient to explain how stupid names got.

Somewhat less glib, you can see the herd mentality with startups, you can see the names following trends. Right now, the trend is "retarded and fruity" instead of "Take a verb and put the letter R after it". To some extent, even if you're not trying to follow the rest of the herd, startups want their names to sound startup-y (for marketing purposes), and there's a lot of pressure to conform while disrupting (for fundraising purposes). Also, as noted in https://nplusonemag.com/issue-25/on-the-fringe/uncanny-valley/ , there is a serious disease where San Francisco is running high enough levels of "sincerity" that it's actually past normal levels that would allow a diagnosis of toxicity: these names don't sound retarded if you live in the bubble.
05_broke_in_this_trendy_city.mp3