I have discovered that I have AI slopies of me on YouTube. And not just that, but they appear before me in search results. They all claim to be animation channels, which isn’t my main thing, but my username is unique enough that I haven’t encountered anyone/anything else using it until the slopies showed up and I’ve had this name for like 10 years. My channel is so small though that idk why they’d even want to copy my name but they did anyways. One of them even has more subs than me but I assume those are all bots since it’s a slop channel.

What’s more is that I also discovered that a domain I was planning to buy got taken by godaddy, which I assume is because they want to up charge me for it. I honestly thought it was way too niche for that to ever happen but apparently I was wrong. I know registrars like godaddy do shitty things like buy domains people look up, so I check if names are taken with an icann lookup instead to try to avoid that. I ended up buying the domain with a different TLD than what I wanted, even though I’m tight on money at the moment because I didn’t want my second option to get taken as well.

Anyways I very much needed to get that off my mind and I hope others aren’t also having to deal with that but if they’re targeting someone as small as me I assume many others already are. My name is pretty important to me since I’m planning on self publishing games with that name as well. I know I don’t have any yet but I just recently graduated college so I’m still working on it.