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asddubs on Sept 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The spam on Twitter

Well, it kind of makes sense if you have e.g. a big youtube channel under and alias and people would know who you are based on that (e.g. Veritasium) but less people would know what your actual name is. However I don't use twitter so I have no idea how liberally this sort of thing is applied

wyclif on Sept 16, 2022 [–]

Another example would be MrBeast. His real name is Jimmy Donaldson but few people know him by that name.

asddubs on Sept 17, 2022 | [–]

yeah I mean it's true of basically any youtuber whose handle isn't just their name

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