At some point YouTube tried to force you to use your real name.
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melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 2 weeks agoI’ve had my Google account for over a decade. At some point, I noticed my YouTube handle was just my name, and I don’t remember setting it to that.
On pretty much all websites, I have a default username I try to use, but I don’t remember getting that option when making a Google account
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
John_Blund@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I think it was around the google+ era, when they were trying real hard to become a ‘proper’ social media.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I noticed it when the display name changed from my account to the made up name I used for the account.