That’s another one. I had a YouTube account under the longer name I took this name from, I signed up to it with my Gmail.
My Gmail was in my real name.
So Google in an effort to fix bad behaviour in YouTube comments switched everyone with a YouTube account and a Google account to the name on the Google account.
So all comments I had made as pseudopsud were suddenly reattributed to the name the local government knows me by.
I work for the government and there are things I’m not allowed to say, subjects I’m not allowed to talk about. I’m less careful when using a pseudonym, so I was really unhappy to be unmasked, only mollified by the fact that YouTube comments can’t be searched
I can’t migrate my old YouTube account, migration was forced on me.
I forgot how it works exactly, but I’m pretty sure when google was doing that I created a brand account(?) and linked my channel to it, something like that, putting them behind a nickname while preserving the entire history. I don’t remember the exact process, but nothing really changed for how I use YouTube, except I get to use a nickname.
I don’t know whether I carelessly clicked a “link accounts” button. I may have. I felt and feel that my name was changed without my explicit permission
On the good side, several YouTubers respect real name commenters on live streams more than pseudonymous ones
Sorry, you misunderstood - the change was forced, it’s not what I’m referring to. I don’t remember the exact way it worked, but I’m pretty sure they were pretty explicit about what the change is, at least.
What I’m saying is, you can go back to using your own nickname - I don’t remember the exact process used, but I think the trick was to create a “brand account”, which is basically an additional identity tied to your account, move everything to that identity, and use it instead of your private identity with your real name.
Meanwhile you can still migrate old YouTube accounts to Google accounts https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/55757?hl=en
That’s another one. I had a YouTube account under the longer name I took this name from, I signed up to it with my Gmail.
My Gmail was in my real name.
So Google in an effort to fix bad behaviour in YouTube comments switched everyone with a YouTube account and a Google account to the name on the Google account.
So all comments I had made as pseudopsud were suddenly reattributed to the name the local government knows me by.
I work for the government and there are things I’m not allowed to say, subjects I’m not allowed to talk about. I’m less careful when using a pseudonym, so I was really unhappy to be unmasked, only mollified by the fact that YouTube comments can’t be searched
I can’t migrate my old YouTube account, migration was forced on me.
I forgot how it works exactly, but I’m pretty sure when google was doing that I created a brand account(?) and linked my channel to it, something like that, putting them behind a nickname while preserving the entire history. I don’t remember the exact process, but nothing really changed for how I use YouTube, except I get to use a nickname.
I don’t know whether I carelessly clicked a “link accounts” button. I may have. I felt and feel that my name was changed without my explicit permission
On the good side, several YouTubers respect real name commenters on live streams more than pseudonymous ones
Sorry, you misunderstood - the change was forced, it’s not what I’m referring to. I don’t remember the exact way it worked, but I’m pretty sure they were pretty explicit about what the change is, at least.
What I’m saying is, you can go back to using your own nickname - I don’t remember the exact process used, but I think the trick was to create a “brand account”, which is basically an additional identity tied to your account, move everything to that identity, and use it instead of your private identity with your real name.
Thanks