Youtube handless? wha?

[Randy R]

I am surprised I had not heard linus talk about the new youtube handles, unless I missed that video.

Regardless, I get notified to select a handle, but I can not for the life of me find out where to actually do this. Their help pages doesn't actually link you to where you are supposed to chose this.

For example what happens if someone chose your handle before you got a chance and is now impersonating you. I thought your youtube account name was how you interact with people, but now it is supposed to be some new thing. I don't get it.

[Kilrah]

I received an email that said it's going to be available soon, then another "you can now choose" and that one links you straight to the page where you can change it, by default it's already your channel name so no someone can't take it from you. 

[SansVarnic]

It's a worthless feature, it will be added to the dead google ideas page in a few months or year from now.

[maplepants]

9 hours ago, SansVarnic said:

It's a worthless feature, it will be added to the dead google ideas page in a few months or year from now.

I could see drama channels making heavy use of it. @ing each other in video titles and """"driving engagement"""". 

 

Something like LTT could theoretically also it for collaborations, but those aren't as big a thing as they used to be.