Channel with same name came up from nowhere

[FancyWeasel]

Judging by the join date of his channel and his most recent video around the time you created your account, you didn't do enough research at all. You need to filter searchs on YouTube by channel (also use " " to help) and search Google, you want to go through the first 5 pages on Google to be sure too. I suggest changing your name for ethical reasons since it was your fault to begin with. The other channel is going to grow more and more and it may cause confusion between fans or even worse fans from his end might flock to your channel with abuse and maybe vice versa, if they feel like you're using this to your advantage they can try to report you for impersonation, not sure how that will go down though I've never personally had an issue there. People above are saying you'll be fine, when it could lead to nothing but problems for you in the future. Rethink, research and rebrand yourself as soon as you can.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right, also probably this wasn't discovered by me because I created the channel before he made his first video, not even sure that he had this username then. But that doesn't really matter since he's more popular now, and with 2 videos, 8 subscribers and about 150 views, and easily editable channel art templates, it's not a big effort from me, to do it. Also didn't really mention channel name, so video re-editing would be really easy. Now I just have to find a new name.

 

[GeekyNet]

I know this is off topic but how did you get that awesome "widget" that you have showing like 500/10,000 views?

It is a forum feature that you can purchase from the Forum Shop. I think it's like 25 forum cash per month or something, and you can show your goals in your signature.

 

[FancyWeasel]

Well rebranding, and new user name is pretty much done. Now probably some posts what refferred to my username don't make sense.