I’ve been seeing a lot of usernames formatted “[lowercase][fourdigits]” or “user-[randomletternumbers]”.

Normally, I’d assume that that just means the name was already taken and the numbers are manually entered to make it unique, but the formatting is too consistent. Is that something google is doing automatically?

The other one is real weird. Is that something some proxy sites are doing for anonymous posting?

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    1 year ago

    It seems like Google changed the format of their YouTube usernames. I assume usernames need to be unique now, but I don’t know for sure.

    In any case, Google automatically added a string of numbers after my username, and I simply haven’t bothered changing it back