How do i delete youtube account without losing anything?

Good list. The one I'd add: if you pay for YouTube Premium, cancel it on its own before you do any of this. It's billed to the Google account, so removing the channel doesn't stop it. And permanent delete also takes your comments and replies on other people's videos, not just your own uploads. Hide doesn't.

first thing, make sure you mean the youtube channel and not the whole google account. deleting the google account also takes gmail, drive, photos and anything you've bought on play with it. a lot of people do that by accident. to keep a copy of everything, use google takeout before you touch anything. untick all, tick youtube and youtube music, export. you get your videos, playlists, comments and history as a download. big channels take a while to package so give it time. then in youtube studio go to settings > channel > advanced settings > remove youtube content. two choices there: - hide my channel: everything goes private, nothing is deleted, you can bring it back later - permanently delete my content: gone for good if you're not 100% sure, hide it first. you can always delete it properly later, you can't undo a delete.