Have you tried recently? I don't remember the steps, but they let me create a public page for my YouTube account. I still have one Google/Google+ account, but a

Have you tried recently? I don't remember the steps, but they let me create a public page for my YouTube account. I still have one Google/Google+ account, but all my YouTube stuff (videos, playlists, favorites, etc) is tied to that public page, which I've locked down on Google+. So my channel still has my original YouTube name and comments won't be made with my real name.