lonelygirl15 the phenomenon i missed out on

[saintsaucey]

Okay I don't know if this is the right place to put this. But im pretty sure if it isn't it will be moved toot sweet.

Apparently there has been an internet phenomenon called lonelygirl15 on you tube and I nearly missed out on it. If it weren't for the fact that I was lazy and neglected to change the channel and saw carson daly briefly mention her.

Since it was a pretty girl, I was intrigued. I went to utube and typed it in and found out that it was a series of blogs about this girl who was supposedly real and was satanic and a whole bunch of other stuff,

turns out the whole thing was a scam by directors and writers and lonely girl was an actriss who was actually 19 or so.


Now for some reason everyone is extremely pissed that this turned out to be a hoax.

I'm curious if anyone knew of this when it was going on and if you fell for the scam and if you were disappointed when it turned out this way.

Personally, I think it was a brilliant sceme. and if people are pissed their just jealous that they didn't think of it first. Hell I'm pissed i didn't come up with something like this. If it came out on dvd. I'd buy it.

[El Santo]

I also missed out on it. I didn't hear about it until the whole thing about it being fake came out...honestly, I figure I was better off before I knew about it. Video blogs are boring as hell. I'm 25 and I have my own problems. Listening to highschool kids, or even fake highschool kids, whine about crap that I didn't even care about when I was their age isn't entertaining at all. Tell some jokes, do something stupid, or injure yourself for my entertainment, then I watch your damn channel on YouTube. Make a music video. Something.

[Brian Cronin]

Yeah, it was a great concept.

I don't think the actual video blogs, in and of themselves, are all that interesting, just the method of slowly using them to get people involved in her story - that struck me as quite clever.

-Brian

[Jerry Kraut]

Strange William Gibson's novel Pattern Recognition has a suspiciously similiar plot.
That guy really is a modern day Cassandra.