Or does Youtube keep signing me out like every 15 minutes? I know they're doing this in a bid to get me to log in using my real name, but it's ****ing annoying and I wish they would stop.

I notice it does this to me too.
But at random times.

Youtube has always been a mess

nope

Im signed in through my gmail so idk it isn't happening to me.

So am I, but I have a separate channel with a different name that is my main Youtube account.

Not every 15 minutes. But every time I go there it seems like I have to sign in. Annoying.

Not every 15 minutes, but maybe every day or so. It'll ask me if I want to log in with my YouTube account (which I always do, and it's annoying that it doesn't recognize that) or my Gmail account (which I never do, because I don't have anything on it.)

Weird how I'm the only whom this happens to with such frequency.

Not for me.

btw what is this thing with using real names? What if I feel like using a handle?