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September 9, 2006

Lonely Girl

Who the heck is Lonely Girl? I've heard of her a couple times now, but I must be out of the loop. What's the intrigue with her?

Is this for real? I searched Snopes but found no reference to it. OK. Found this:

Lonelygirl15 appears to be an innocent, home-schooled 16-year-old, pouring her heart out for her video camera in the privacy of her bedroom. But since May, her brief posts on the video-sharing site YouTube and the social networking hub MySpace have launched a Web mystery eagerly followed by her million-plus viewers: Who is this sheltered ingenue who calls herself "Bree," and is she in some sort of danger — or, worse, the tool of some giant marketing machine? - link

<more time goes by> And then I find this:

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." - link

Later in the article it says the "confession" may have been a hoax.