September 10, 2006
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You Tube celebrity "Lonely Girl 15" has been exposed as a fake:
Along with her friend "Daniel," lonelygirl15 appears in a series of video blogs, confessional screeds spoken into a video camera and posted on websites such as YouTube. Since June, viewers have questioned whether the videos really depicted a home-schooled, shy girl named "Bree, or whether they were part of some larger project or promotional scheme....
The team behind the lonelygirl15 YouTube mystery has come forward, claiming that lonelygirl15 is part of their "show" and thanking their fans effusively for tuning in to "the birth of a new art form." They are not, they insisted, "a big corporation."
After amateur sleuths uncovered apparent links between the Creative Artists Agency and the official lonelygirl15 MySpace page, a statement claiming to be from "The Creators" was posted on the lonelygirl15 website late Thursday.
I checked out the videos and you have to be high to believe that the girl isn't acting, the the video isn't produced by tech-savvy people, or that she's 15. But I guess when people want to believe, there's no stopping them.
Posted by Karol at September 10, 2006 12:49 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Lonelygirl15 You+Tube+Hoax
I agree, the videos were obviously fake, but how did they rack up millions of loyal viewers and subscribers? Did they have any help?
Posted by: Nerd Punk at September 10, 2006 07:36 PMHey, I thought it was real... oh yeah, I was high.
Posted by: Eric at September 11, 2006 08:47 PM
