old name forwards to new name.
After a user changes their name, the old name forwards to the new name until the old name has been recycled for reuse.
Reason: Some cases exist where it is not feasible to spend the time to change all old links to the new link such as in youtube descriptions.
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Its Invis commented
Can you explain more because I think they fixed this, but I might be wrong.