• pinguinu [any]@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Those were generated when yt rolled out usernames, and if you didn’t choose one yourself, it assigned you your nickname plus some numbers

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      10 months ago

      Firstname lastname was what federal agents used to use, the numbers youtube added numbers on the end after they redid their system. I think everyone has numbers regardless of what their username is and it might be possible but not easy to get rid of them.

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        I think the feds use the Firstnamelastname+Numbers thing because of google rolling out these kinds of usernames as the default. If it’s the most common type of username it’s the easiest to fit in.

        Back a decade and a half ago, they probably would’ve used usernames like _Xx__Rand0m_Spork87_xX