User:SnowyCinema/Wasted username

A wasted username or wasted account is a username or user account that is abandoned shortly after its creation on a website, especially without much activity having been done by the user. 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.

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 2012, 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 phenomenon has mostly faded away.