So frustrating! Can't access my youtube channel

Faith Granger

Faith Granger

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HELP!
Somehow I got logged out of my Youtube channel and I can’t log back in. When I click on SIGN IN it takes me to Google and google is demanding I sign in there first before I can go to youtube.

Problem is, after trying every gmail email address I have in my notes, none of them seem to be linked to my youtube channel. I must have lost my notes, but I am sure that the first account I ever created in google + must be the one now associated with my youtube channel (but I can't loggin to it either, for same above reasons):

So how can I backtrack, starting with my youtube channel located here: youtube search for "user/DeuceofSpadesmovie"

and figure out which google account is linked to my channel? And how do I then retrieve the username and password for that google account.

OR can I bypass goggle altogether?? I can’t seem to find any way to get real help from either Youtube or Google (neither via email or chat or homing pigeon)

I swear sometimes I wonder if technology is really our friend. I miss the old days where i could just logging to my youtube page from youtube.
 
Hmm... You might be able to get some help if you contact YouTube's Support team, but if you cannot remember which email address you used, it might be hard to prove to them that you are the owner of the account.

I noticed that the account was created in 2007. This means the account was created before Google tied YouTube to Gmail. Any email address could have been used -- not just a gmail address. Can you think of an email address you may have more commonly used a decade ago?

Back then, you would have only needed to log in with "DeuceofSpadesmovie" and your password. The site has since changed and now needs members to log in with whatever email address was used when you signed up with that particular username. There was a flex time where they warned members to now log in with whatever email was needed each time they logged in using their username, so there is a chance it may be stored in your browser's passwords (if you save passwords with your browser).
 
How do I reach the youtube support team? Yes I used to sign in with just "DeuceofSpadesmovie" and I still have that password saved in my database, so I could provide that info to prove my ownership. But I am a public figure, so I think they could easily check my identity regardless.

I also know that the Google + account associated with my youtube channel is "+FaithGrangerFilmmaker" so if I could loggin to that Google+ account I think it would do the trick. However I am unable to. I believe you have to use a gmail email address to loing to a Google + account, correct? I tried both my gmail addresses and both are taking me to some new google + account that is not yet set-up (no banner photo, no followers etc)... It's almost like my gmail email and my google + account have become disconnected.

I think I need help from Google or Youtube, can you tell me how to reach the support team of either? I sure couldn't figure it out on my own (waste all day trying). Hey, I only have 163 I.Q ;) haha!
 
Hmm... well, their support website says this:
https://support.google.com/youtube/troubleshooter/3219097?hl=en#ts=3309345

Did you happen to enter a recovery phone number? If you haven't, then that website says that they won't be able to look up your email address.

In the upper-right corner of that website, there is a "Contact Support" button that might help. I'd probably click through to the "Channel and Video features" support email and see what might happen.
 
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