# Is there any way to migrate to a new Youtube channel?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-migrate-to-a-new-youtube-channel/692326>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 4, 2014, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-migrate-to-a-new-youtube-channel/692326 "2014-07-04T07:40:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-migrate-to-a-new-youtube-channel/692326/1 "2014-07-04T07:40:54Z")

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I recently tried commenting on a Youtube video. It had a song in the intro and no link to what the song was. Every other comment was “What is that song?” The problem was, in order to comment I had to create a new Google+ Youtube profile. It insists on using my real name and insists on clearing every single thing I had on my old profile. No more favorites, no more subscriptions, et cetera.

I don’t care if Google absolutely must crawl up my butt so I can post a comment. But I would find it painful to manually resubscribe to dozens of channels and manually re-favorite and re-like hundreds of videos. Is there any way to make this painless?

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-migrate-to-a-new-youtube-channel/692326/2 "2014-07-04T11:29:47Z")

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I don’t know how much help this is, but when I had to create a G+ account to make comments, I had to use a “name” for which I used an alias I already use on facebook. G+ then linked that account to my YouTube account which is under SeaDragonTattoo. YouTube is always asking me which user name I want to use and I’m constantly clicking the SeaDragon choice. Once I clicked the alias name and yeah, everything was blank and I panicked a bit, thinking that one wrong click erased everything, but I was able to switch user names and everything’s still there. I haven’t figured out how to make the choice go away, I will never use the new user name unless they delete the old one without my permission.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-migrate-to-a-new-youtube-channel/692326/3 "2014-07-04T13:56:36Z")

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> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#):
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> I don’t know how much help this is, but when I had to create a G+ account to make comments, I had to use a “name” for which I used an alias I already use on facebook. G+ then linked that account to my YouTube account which is under SeaDragonTattoo. YouTube is always asking me which user name I want to use and I’m constantly clicking the SeaDragon choice. Once I clicked the alias name and yeah, everything was blank and I panicked a bit, thinking that one wrong click erased everything, but I was able to switch user names and everything’s still there. I haven’t figured out how to make the choice go away, I will never use the new user name unless they delete the old one without my permission.

I went through pretty much the same gamut of experiences, all of t hem seemingly random and none of them intuitive, until finally they stopped asking me, and it has again become its old lovable self.