• Fermion@feddit.nl
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    5 days ago

    Is there a reason so many of the commenters (on youtube) are name+4 digits, or are those lazily named bot accounts?

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      youtube changed their account naming system a year or so ago. every account has those numbers now, it’s just not visible if you set a display name.

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        Easy unmemorable throwaways. Plenty of services will tell you that your chosen screen name is taken and automatically offer the same thing followed by numbers, “UserName123” for instance.

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          Ooh! Yeah that’s hella sus. It’s also the Fox News youtube channel so surely they have an army of bots to drive whatever narrative they’re spinning that day.

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      That’s just the default. At some point a while ago I got a pop up about making a username, which for YouTube I don’t care about at all. So I just clicked the button accepting whatever it gave me.