The Atlantic: Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits

The Atlantic: Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits. “Everyone had to see this. It was early 2007 when Sadia Harper called her YouTube co-workers to her desk to watch. On her screen, a preteen with a buzz cut and an oversize dress shirt was belting out an Alicia Keys song. ‘This kid is amazing,’ Harper said. The singer’s mother had been badgering her with emails to feature her son, Justin Bieber, on YouTube’s homepage. Harper was one of YouTube’s ‘coolhunters,’ a team once tasked with curating videos on YouTube.com.”