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		scott_s on Nov 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google ate my email address YouTube insisted I login in order to watch some movie trailer, so I did so with my gmail account. It then insisted that I give a nickname. I didn't care at the time, as I figured I could just change the name later - surely the only unique ID here is my gmail account. And that's why my YouTube name is skadfjlsakdfjlksdfjl.

larsberg on Nov 10, 2011 [–]

Ha!

I'm upvoting you because I did almost exactly the same thing in that situation... my YouTube name is lalalalalalalala2334.

lancewiggs on Nov 10, 2011 | [–]

and mine "thisloginprocesssux"

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