How to remove / delete an old username connected to YouTube?

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OnceBitten

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#311811 16-Feb-2024 12:16

My wife & I have a YouTube account that's under our names and have no issues with it

some years ago I was a member of another website / forum and had a nickname (username) for that website

so for a bit of a laugh I did a google search of that old nickname to see what would come up... and in the results it came up with a link to our YouTube account - see screenshot below (I've blanked out the username for privacy reasons)

so I went into our YouTube account to see where this username was and how it is linked to our account and I couldn't see it anywhere in settings or anywhere else in our YouTube Account

does anyone know how to remove this username and it's association to our YouTube Account?

basically I don't want to type in my old username in a google search and have it come up as a link to our YouTube account

any advice would be appreciated

Goosey

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#3196267 16-Feb-2024 12:35

Was it content you created ?
does said content still exist in your account?
(there’s a seperate app for content creators / uploaders etc)

gehenna

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#3196269 16-Feb-2024 12:37

YouTube moved from user-named accounts to Google accounts some years ago. Accounts that were set up prior to the change can still be accessed by the user. If I go to my Youtube account selector now, I still see my old named account there even though I only login/view the Google account one now.