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I first saw Lonelygirl15 (short, LG15) over at GeekBrief, and just like Cali Lewis (our fearless leader) I was also mesmerize. Lonelygirl15 is just a series of personal video diaries of a teenage girl made available on YouTube. Sure there are thousands of personal video posted on YouTube but some how Lonelygirl15 is different, and many notice it.

The story is about Bree, a self-proclaimed 16 year-old home-schooler with strict parents. She spends most of her time in her room. Her best friend is Daniel and he really fancies her but she doesn’t like him in that way. Occasionally there is the purple monkey involve.

Seems to be another video of mundane details of a teenage life, but Bree’s videos got more then a million YouTube users watching it. It has become a phenomenon. Lonelygirl15 also got some press coverage, with LA Times and Business Week mentioning it.

She is too charming, the video are too well edited, her melodrama story seem to be too well written. More and more people are starting to question whether she really does exists. Many comments and theories pop out everywhere. From Lonelygirl15 being a some sort of viral marketing plot, or some would be MTV’s reality based show. Comments about her religion and her belief, with the whole Aleister Crowley shrine in her room.

Another fact that spark more controversy is that what supposed to be her fan site lonelygirl15.com, the domain name was registered month before Bree’s first video made it to YouTube.

Is Lonelygirl15 a hoax? Me personally considered it to be an art form, so lets just enjoy what our young, intelligent, talented performers has to offer and just watch as the story unfolds.

I bloged about Star Trek like audio logs being the future of blogging, may be video is more likely to be? Services like YouTube has made it easy for anybody with great idea to make and distribute their works to the messes. Good fun short video shows like GeekBrief, Ask A Ninja and Hope is Emo are just some of the example. Who needs the television anymore.

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