How to choose your YouTube handle
by Barbara Krasnoff from The Verge - All Posts on (#64QRY)
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Handles, usually indicated by an @ sign in front of a name or nickname, are useful for people who want to create an identity, indicate their opinions, or make a joke - and many social networks, such as Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook, have adopted it. Now, finally, YouTube is as well - and not just for its established creators.
Until recently, the only people who had YouTube handles - individual URLs that allow people to find your videos - were those who had at least 100 subscribers. The rest of us were using URLs that went something like youtube.com/user/your.handle. Now, YouTube is rolling out handles to all its users - @ names that will be used to identify you in channel pages, Shorts, and other YouTube areas.
YouTube is sending out...