Atlantan is a first-person account from a familiar stranger who makes the city tick. This month’s is from Carldez Goodley, aka Hood Anchor Ye .

The reporting I do out there isn’t a joke. I try to balance being as accurate as I can and being for the people. I think more and more people are understanding that I’m very serious about this and what I do is real.

It did start as a joke, though, when this dude was going to jump off a bridge on the Connector. I was with friends nearby, and we took a video of me messing around about the situation, because I knew he wasn’t going to jump. This was on December 30 last year, and the video did 1.7 million views on TikTok and 60,000 on Instagram . I’m watching the views go up and up at home, and I just thought, I need to start going to scenes

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