The spree continues
Feb. 1st, 2026 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
christopher575Since I'm in an archiving and deleting mood, I finally got around to an account that's been on my list for many years: my first YouTube account. It bore the name of my old hotmail account and might even be older than my original gmail account, which would account for the name. It's certainly from before a time when there was a full suite of Google apps integrated with a single sign-in. I just saved 61 of 63 videos from that channel, it was easy to see from the thumbnail that a couple could just go away forever.
Now I have two YouTube accounts. The oldest is linked to the aforementioned original gmail account and has no videos because I wasn't interested in putting videos on YouTube again until 2016, and by that time we had one for our home domain. In 2016 I taught myself how to edit video and returned to YouTube to unveil the video I'd dreamed of creating for years.
Funnily enough, that video has way more views on Facebook than on YouTube, and did pretty good numbers on Tumblr, too.
YouTube says I have "about 709" videos on my current account, and I can tell you from memory that the bulk of that is time lapses and walk route videos. I can't imagine getting rid of this account because, like with flickr, hundreds of blog posts have that content. And now, I do my water fitness playlists on that account as well.
The older account with no videos has almost no reason to exist at all. When we switched to YouTubeTV as our TV provider, you had to sign in with a gmail account, and it couldn't be a personal domain one. That was a frustrating time because I'd be signed in to YouTube on the home domain because that's where all my stuff was, but I had to switch over to the original one a lot for TV administration purposes. That led to a "Watch Later" list on the older account that hasn't been added to in four years. At some point I need to go look at that list to see if there's anything I actually want to watch, as I'm sure there are a few fun surprises in it.
But other than that, everything that matters to me on YouTube is now in one place, and just like with my TikTok, there's a folder of old videos on our server from an account that's now gone.
A silly thing I'll admit is that a big part of why I deleted it is because I got tired of seeing the account in the list to select from when we open YouTube on the TV. I haven't opened it yet, but now I should only see two. I never signed into that old one on the TV, but it was tied to one of the other accounts, probably the second oldest one. More on the TV part of the saga later because I don't want to wait to post.
Now I have two YouTube accounts. The oldest is linked to the aforementioned original gmail account and has no videos because I wasn't interested in putting videos on YouTube again until 2016, and by that time we had one for our home domain. In 2016 I taught myself how to edit video and returned to YouTube to unveil the video I'd dreamed of creating for years.
Funnily enough, that video has way more views on Facebook than on YouTube, and did pretty good numbers on Tumblr, too.
YouTube says I have "about 709" videos on my current account, and I can tell you from memory that the bulk of that is time lapses and walk route videos. I can't imagine getting rid of this account because, like with flickr, hundreds of blog posts have that content. And now, I do my water fitness playlists on that account as well.
The older account with no videos has almost no reason to exist at all. When we switched to YouTubeTV as our TV provider, you had to sign in with a gmail account, and it couldn't be a personal domain one. That was a frustrating time because I'd be signed in to YouTube on the home domain because that's where all my stuff was, but I had to switch over to the original one a lot for TV administration purposes. That led to a "Watch Later" list on the older account that hasn't been added to in four years. At some point I need to go look at that list to see if there's anything I actually want to watch, as I'm sure there are a few fun surprises in it.
But other than that, everything that matters to me on YouTube is now in one place, and just like with my TikTok, there's a folder of old videos on our server from an account that's now gone.
A silly thing I'll admit is that a big part of why I deleted it is because I got tired of seeing the account in the list to select from when we open YouTube on the TV. I haven't opened it yet, but now I should only see two. I never signed into that old one on the TV, but it was tied to one of the other accounts, probably the second oldest one. More on the TV part of the saga later because I don't want to wait to post.
