Since the beginning of its existence, Youtube’s recent Upgrade may enable the Elimination of bogus Accounts. These accounts regularly impersonate well-known people on YouTube to con visitors into giving their personal and financial information. YouTube has been exerting a lot of effort to erase these accounts, but in the meanwhile, it has come up with an ingenious new solution for the problem.
The video-sharing website has introduced “handles” to the platform, much like other social programs like Twitter and Discord, as well as hundreds of similar apps. These “handles” allow users to identify themselves and communicate with other users. These “handles” are essentially just name tags, and each YouTuber will have its unique set of them so that they can be adequately differentiated from the other users.
For instance, the well-known video producer PewDiePie may choose the handle “@pewdiepie” for himself, preventing anybody else from using it in the same manner as Twitter does.
Handles, in addition to the creator’s Shorts, will be shown on the YouTuber’s channel, making it possible for the creator to be “quickly and consistently recognized.” The company claims that the handles are “unique to each channel” so that content producers may further develop their own particular identities and brands on YouTube using those handles.
Handles have several applications and may be used for various reasons, including identification and branding, as well as for mentions in comments, community posts, and video descriptions.
The new update has not yet been made available to the general public, but YouTube has announced that content creators would be notified “over the next month” when they choose a handle for their channel. This information was provided even though the upgrade has not yet been made available. Channels that already have a personalized URL will have that URL set as their default handle. However, the owners of such media will be able to change their grip as soon as they get the notification in YouTube Studio.
It has been made abundantly clear by the company that the selection of the handle will be based on several factors, some of which include “overall YouTube prominence,” “subscription count,” and “whether the channel is active or inactive.”
In addition to that, a matching URL with these handles attached to it will also be constructed (youtube.com/@[handle]). You may find out more about the feature by going to the page on YouTube that is dedicated to Frequently Asked Questions.
