An NYC culture reporter on YouTube’s influence and the tab that got away

Adlan Jackson is a writer, editor and worker-owner at Hell Gate, a New York City news publication founded as a journalist-run cooperative. Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In My Corner Of The Internet , we talk with people about the online spaces they can’t get enough of, the sites and forums that shaped them, and how they would design their own corner of the web. We caught up with Adlan Jackson, the culture reporter and editor at Hell Gate , a reader-supported New York City news site owned and run by journalists. He talks about YouTube’s cultural influence, lurking in online gambling forums and joining his first online forum at age 11 (with parental permission). What is your favorite corner of the internet?  I’m a millennial, so I still think YouTube is maybe the most important and underrated social network. I feel like so much culture runs downstream from YouTube.  I’ve
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