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What are the dangers of deleting a YouTube account?

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Deleting your YouTube account means you will lose your channel, and your videos and comments will be deleted forever.

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What if I have a brand account? Will that be deleted as well?

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You cannot fully delete a brand account, you can only hide it.

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If I delete my YouTube channel, will my videos be deleted as well?

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Yes, your videos will also be deleted from YouTube, because they are linked to your YouTube channel.

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How can I delete my old YouTube accounts when I don't remember my username or password?

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If you remember the email associated with those accounts, then type in that email, then click "I forgot my password". From there, go to your email, change the password, login, and then delete the account.

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How can I delete a YouTube account now that Google+ is gone?

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Go to google.com, click your icon on the top corner(log in of there's no icon), click the blue square "Google Account". Then, click a blue text that says "Manage your data and personalization", scroll down until you reach the "Download, delete, or make a plan for your data" tab, the third option should be "Delete a service or your account" click it. After that, select "Delete a service". Finally, There most likely will be three icons, one for Youtbe, one for Gmail, and one for Google Plays if you play games on android, click the trash can icon located at the right of the service you want to delete, follow the instructions on screen.

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If I have multiple channels on YouTube with the same email account, will deleting one channel cause all the other channels to be deleted as well?

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If you delete the channel, the others won’t disappear. If you delete your account, then you will be removing all of your channels.

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If I delete my YouTube account, will my Gmail account be deleted as well?

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Your Gmail account is not linked to your YouTube channel directly. So deleting your YouTube account does not delete your Gmail account, too.

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