Lonelygirl 15 is a video blogger on YouTube which began June 2006, and ended on August 1st, 2008. It was a video blogger of the life of a 16 year old Californian girl. She faced everyday matters as she faced the teenage world and her videos grew more interesting as her parents disappeared and investigations were conducted. It became one of the most popular video blogs on YouTube and brought in more than 50 million viewers. It became so popular, and viewers were so interested, that they began posting up their own blogs and comments. Viewers believed that is was “real”, as the star of Lonely Girl even created her own MySpace page in which she became in contact with her viewers. However, many fans grew suspicious and questioned if Lonelygirl was “real”. Many investigations led to the truth that Lonelygirl 15 was fake. Bree, the star of Lonelygirl 15, in reality, is a 20 year old New Zealand actress, who began these series with her screenwriter, film producer, and others characters also involved in the series. Although Lonelygirl was revealed as a fictitious blog, the storyline continued to grow on YouTube and MySpace and the videos had to be stopped. Lonelygirl 15 came out with their own website which contains all of the complete videos for fans to view and have access to.
The main controversy on Lonelygirl 15 was that it proved to be a phony. Fans grew upset as they felt they had been cheated. Many articles and interviews were conducted on this matter.
Please see the following links which include the website and articles of the controversy:
www.lg15.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/technology/13lonely.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/08/entertainment/et-lonelygirl8
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/11/blogophile/main1999184.shtml
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The Lonelygirl15 video is just one kind of entertainment on the Internet and that girl just wanted to show herself to the whole world. That girl in those videos derived to express her own emotion and some special things to tell people what did happen in her world. Also I could find some details through her background that she as the same as other American girls lived in a small town and had little friends. Unfortunately, she got a not very well family and has strict religious parents and I could know she could not like other same age girls do something they want to do. That’s unfair. So that would feel lonely and that’s why I know her name was called Lonelygirl 15 and the number 15 was just a age she wanted to stay with because every young girl wants to stay with the young situation forever. I think she made some videos in order to get rid of the world she lived for awhile and got some happy she couldn’t get it form the true life.
Maybe some videos you are not interesting in and maybe some videos are none of your business but they had been on the Internet for a long time and the hits up to the some thousand already. And there are so many people are focus on this girl everyday and she has been a little starlit. Although some videos are fake , people are still interesting in that.
In my opinion, that special girl is a pioneer to some people because some people don’t have courage to that even though those videos she made have got a well result. I also think that girl has a dream and she still working on it. That’s one point I could learn from and use it in my life.
If one of lonelygirl 15 videos you saw before and you got funny on it , that’s enough. Some famous comedy you enjoyed and why don’t you think those are true or not. So the lonelygirls 15 are still on the Internet today and more and more people are interesting in it. Whatever it is fake or true.
Actually, I don't sympathize her a little. I don't know why, I think the girl has a little crazy.
Maybe she just wants to share her life, find someone who like her and become frinds, but I think her desire is want to be a famous people at most. A 15 girl should happy everyday, not let people to sympathize her.Maybe my opinion has little extrem.
After finding out that Lonelygirl was a big hoax, I have just viewed it as another site looking to make a buck. I thought the videos were pretty crazy, entertaining at some points but mainly just a little idiotic. I can see however how one may begin to follow the stories being told, just like one may follow any sort of television show such as Lost in order to follow a story. I did enjoy the presentation and did find it interesting how the whole uproar of the story had swept through the lives of so many viewers
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