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Cleaning my pseudonym from the internet
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So I have an email which is basically like this ''(pseudonym)@gmail.com'' and the problem is that anyone who looks for that name on Google will quickly see every stupid thing I have done on the internet ever since I was 12 because I used that pseudonym for EVERYTHING. I used it for:
>porn sites
>video game characters, accounts (LoL, Steam, mmorpgs, etc...)
>video game forums where I talked about porn and offended other users
>Youtube channels, a Twitter account and an old Funnyjunk account (everything is visible)
>Ultimate Guitar acc

There are literally over nine thousand results (9,170) and I need to get away from that and start unknown...

How can I do this? My email is linked to my college account.
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Its fucked OP. Your best option is to sign up for more things under that handle and spew disinformation so it doesn't seem to link back to you. Also, tell whoever that you've lost access to that email and it needs to be changed.
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>>54732599
>using a unique and easily identifiable screen name all over the internet

deserved desu
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You can't do anything truly comprehensive. History is history: "right to be forgotten" is honestly bollocks. But you can probably change the email on your college account, so make a new one under a completely new nym (or your real name if you wish for that, because professionalism), and do that. Delete or deactivate all the old accounts that you can.

Changing your Steam display name will mean there is a trail: I don't think you can actually change account name? If you don't have a lot of games and don't want to leave a trail, consider burning it and making a new one. Luckily I made mine under the "new" nym, which has been around nearly 15 years now.

I've changed nym before but not in any particularly serious running-from-everyone way. I always kept personal and professional accounts entirely separate and compartmented them, which turned out to be a very good idea.

I've also changed name and, for example, had to send my new passport to Blizzard so they'd change my name on Battle.net RealID (before they launched BattleTags) - I didn't expect WoW to be more argumentative than say my bank, who just accepted the certified copy change-of-name deed. Steam just changed it, no questions asked - I think they clocked the context, they might be a bit stricter now but I was only changing real name, not Steam name. Facebook banned me, but that's Facebook and a deleted account there was a nice side effect.
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>>54732599
Disinformation, massive amounts of. Just saturate the pseudonym with tons of uncontroversial stuff.
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fuck im glad ive switched online handles frequently over the years, and never used anything that easily identifies me
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>>54732599
Just be happy you realised your mistake. Try to recover and log in to all your old accounts and delete everything you can, then close the acc.

Then make a new mail account that you use as your "respectable email" and make sure to never tie it to porn or whatever.
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>>54732599

1) make a new mail adress

2) mail at all contacts: "hey guys, my new adress is: [email protected]"

3) problem solved
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Literally make a new email account and use that I stead, you fucking dumbass
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>>54732599
What was your pseudonym? Here on /g/ we don't judge.
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>tfw i looked my old username
>all my edgy underage cringe filled macrumors posts are there.

wew
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>>54732599
>porn sites
>video game characters, accounts (LoL, Steam, mmorpgs, etc...)
>video game forums where I talked about porn and offended other users
>Youtube channels, a Twitter account and an old Funnyjunk account (everything is visible)
>Ultimate Guitar acc

Does your real name enter into this stuff, or is the gmail account the only connection?
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Look up google's "Right to be forgotten".
Might be a good start.
Or, ya know, stop using that handle.
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If I google my username, fucktons of my posts made from 2006 till today everywhere would show up, but there were no information to be found, at least I couldn't find any.

I think about changing an identity completely, have to move soon, however, I'm not entirely sure how someone can tie my first, second and real identities together.
Is it worth to create a new username, and start to fill everything slowly? I've got no social media except empty and fake one just to contact with friend, what's about Steam? Was considering to buy an old account.
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>>54732599
huehue, IT BEGINS

all those poor little kids who put all their stupid shit online without a second thought, oh how it will catch up with them, once they realize it's all there forever, for everyone to see
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>>54732599
I used to post semi-cringy shit on Facebook and I just deleted the account and made a new one. Same thing should apply to you.
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>>54734310
I search my name and everything for the last 13 years shows up.

I'm attached to it, but fuck I was a dumbass when I was 12.
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>>54734469
everyone is a dumbass when they're 12
the only people who'll deny it are 12 year olds, who are too dumb to know otherwise
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