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A wasted username or wasted account is a username or user account on a website that has been created and was abandoned shortly afterwards, especially without having done much activity on the website.[1] A person who creates such an account is often referred to as a namewaster or name waster, which is a slang term that is mostly used in a derogatory sense.[2]
The slang term originated on YouTube, where many active users would post derogatory or humorous comments on wasted channels, and many would also subscribe to these channels to increase their subscription counts. However, in 2011,[citation needed] after many years of complaints from users who wanted these usernames, YouTube automatically deleted most of the accounts that were inactive and unused, so this fad has mostly faded away.
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