According to Bryan Wuest’s article “Stories like Mine”, one main way that queer youth use YouTube is to allow themselves to develop their personal and public identities. By seeing the way that others put themselves out there, they can more fully grasp the person that they want to be and the side of that which they want to show to the outside world. A second way is that they use YouTube to accumulate and digest the facets of queer culture, which allows them to recognize what they want to be a part of or contribute to within it. For both of these areas, Wuest focuses a lot on recognizing the fact that, in general, YouTube allows young members of the queer community to access queer culture more readily and this helps them to become a more active member of the community.