Username Advice

MegaBoringGuy

MegaBoringGuy

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I must see this everyday, especially on here. People that put random numbers and "x's" in their usernames. Don't do that. Why do you do that? Combining words that don't make grammatical sense such as calling yourself "We Play Games" yet the channel's username is "GamesPlayWe" is also dumb. If you expect to get popular, it's not just you that gets popular, it's your brand.

If someone tells me to check out Ray William Johnson, I'm going to type out youtube(dot)com then RayWilliamJohnson, I'm not going to add in 5 numbers or a bunch of x's. If someone tells me to check out Smosh, I'm quite clear on how to get there. Seeing all of the channels that have dug their own graves with idiotic name choices already makes me not want to watch them.

The Overly Obsessive Girlfriend's channel "Laina" (or so you'd think) is actually called wzr0713 *good grief. Also, don't put "TV" in your channel name. You're not on TV, do you see the irony? Oprah doesn't call her show OprahTV. Think carefully about your name, because if you get popular, it's going to follow you. My name took over 2 months of scratching my head and thinking for hours, probably because after 9 years of YouTube being a thing, 99% of names are taken.
 
I agree to a point. I don't have any issues with putting TV in your name or changing the order of your words to make something that grammatically, wouldn't make sense, such as GamesPlayWe. It's a username, it doesn't have to really follow the rules of grammar.

I would say the X's and the numbers get annoying. If you have one or two Xs, like zeldaxlove64 or whatever her name is (Christina Grimmie, the singer/youtuber), that's alright. It's only irritating when it's obnoxious.

I'm also pretty shocked it took your months to come up with your name lol, took me about an hour and maybe some asking around for suggestions.
 
I don't agree, sure, don't put a bunch of random x's in your name but you can name yourself pretty much anything else. Look at ksiolajidebt, dude's doing well, looks like he smashed his keyboard to choose his username. As long as you can make market it well, you'll do fine.
 
Styxie said:
I don't agree, sure, don't put a bunch of random x's in your name but you can name yourself pretty much anything else. Look at ksiolajidebt, dude's doing well, looks like he smashed his keyboard to choose his username. As long as you can make market it well, you'll do fine.
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Oh my gooshhh, that guys is hilarious lol
 
thedigblackbick said:
I agree to a point. I don't have any issues with putting TV in your name or changing the order of your words to make something that grammatically, wouldn't make sense, such as GamesPlayWe. It's a username, it doesn't have to really follow the rules of grammar.

I would say the X's and the numbers get annoying. If you have one or two Xs, like zeldaxlove64 or whatever her name is (Christina Grimmie, the singer/youtuber), that's alright. It's only irritating when it's obnoxious.

I'm also pretty shocked it took your months to come up with your name lol, took me about an hour and maybe some asking around for suggestions.
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For years I thought zeldaxlove64 is a good looking username, though that's the only exception I can really think of. You have "The" in your name, which is a real originality depletion, because "TheONOTech" doesn't really make sense to me.
 
Styxie said:
I don't agree, sure, don't put a bunch of random x's in your name but you can name yourself pretty much anything else. Look at ksiolajidebt, dude's doing well, looks like he smashed his keyboard to choose his username. As long as you can make market it well, you'll do fine.
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lol his username is actually some old clan tag (KSI) and then his real name.
 
Styxie said:
I don't agree, sure, don't put a bunch of random x's in your name but you can name yourself pretty much anything else. Look at ksiolajidebt, dude's doing well, looks like he smashed his keyboard to choose his username. As long as you can make market it well, you'll do fine.
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He's doing well, though he's trying to mask his keyboard mashing with "KSI".
 
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