PewDiePie had an old YouTube account called PewDie, which he lost access to for a long time because he lost the password.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePie#Early_years_(2010%E2%80%932012)On this old YouTube account, he had Ryan Faulk (Yes, our Ryan Faulk) added as a friend at a time where he only had 44 friends.
http://archive.vn/hjXBwConfederalsocialist is a former alias Ryan went under.
Timestamped link of him saying confederalsocialist is a former username of his:
https://youtu.be/v6r9nlnS62M?t=5436 Archive of the profile of his channel:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080612181628/https://www.youtube.com/user/confederalsocialistAccount containing mirrors of his older videos:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CSMIRRORMirror/videosAlso remember that before 2013 your username was tied to your channel page URL. Which would mean that two persons couldn't have same username.