Anyone here know Bree?

[Moonliner]

Has anyone been following the videos of lonelygirl15? (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=lonelygirl15)

[Gn2Dlnd]

As a matter of fact, no.

/likes brie on a Savory Sage ThinKrisp

[LSPoorEeyorick]

She's just been revealed as a hoax—not, as expected, a clever viral feature designed by big business. Apparently, a group of independent filmmakers are responsible for her video blogs. There’s an interesting reaction within a blog here (http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/09/07/lonelygirl15.html).

[Moonliner]

She's just been revealed as a hoax—not, as expected, a clever viral feature designed by big business. Apparently, a group of independent filmmakers are responsible for her video blogs. There’s an interesting reaction within a blog here (http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/09/07/lonelygirl15.html).

While she might be a hoax, the revalation of that from today now looks like it was a hoax. The refrence to it has been removed from her wikipedia page. Appently it was just someone that posted to her website forum saying it was all a hoax... So don't close the book on this one just yet....

[Ghoulish Delight]

Wikipedia still says it was a hoax, revealed on September 6th.

[Moonliner]

Wikipedia still says it was a hoax, revealed on September 6th.

???

Not when I load it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15

It was there earlier today, but it's gone now.

[Ghoulish Delight]

???

Not when I load it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15

It was there earlier today, but it's gone now.
Hmm, the version that was loading for me (on 2 different computers) up until I clicked your link had a "Revelation of Fakeness" section. According to the history, that version is 2 versions old. I'm not sure what clock the time stamps are keyed on, so I don't know the timing.

But anyway, the content from the "Revelation of Fakeness" section is still there, it's just been merged into the "Speculation" section


On September 8th 2006, people claiming to be the creators of Lonelygirl15 claimed it was a fake, on Lonelygirl15.com (http://www.lonelygirl15.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=36) saying (in part):
the biggest mystery of Lonelygirl15 is "who is she?" We think this is an oversimplification. Lonelygirl15 is a reflection of everyone. She is no more real or fictitious than the portions of our personalities that we choose to show (or hide) when we interact with the people around us.
According to the LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-lonelygirl8sep08,0,5310001.story), an IP tracker was placed on a myspace page to which the user lonelygirl15 was lured. According to this tracker the person using the LonelyGirl15 username did so from a server of the Creative Artists Agency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Artists_Agency), A Hollywood casting agency.
Further support to this notion lies in the apparent removal of Lonelygirl15's web page.

[CoasterMatt]

Myspace is the worst thing to hit the internet since goatse.cx (please don't go there)

[Kevy Baby]

There was (is) a story on her in today's LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-lonelygirl8sep08,1,1245636.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)

[Moonliner]

There was (is) a story on her in today's LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-lonelygirl8sep08,1,1245636.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)

Yup that's what I saw today (it was on drudgereport). I just wanted to see if people had an opinion before being told it was a hoax.



the content from the "Revelation of Fakeness" section is still there


The "revelation" was a post on her web site about it being a hoax. That has now been removed. The stuff in the speculation section is from the LA times article and I'm not sure I believe it. However, the end result is the same. It's a hoax.

[RStar]

Myspace is the worst thing to hit the internet since goatse.cx (please don't go there)
I so totally agree....

[Alex]

Anything that encourages embedded music in web pages is a blight on this universe.

[Moonliner]

Myspace is the worst thing to hit the internet since goatse.cx (please don't go there)

Think about this...

If there was no myspace, where would all those special Internet users be posting and hanging out?



Present company excepted of course Gn2Dlnd. Your myspace space is rock'n... :D

[CoasterMatt]

Think about this...

If there was no myspace, where would all those special Internet users be posting and hanging out?


Isn't that what AOL is there for? :evil:

[Alex]

Oh, the horrible times we live in that idiots swarm us year round. Used to be that you could tell when summer ended and college started because of the onrush of newbie idiots.

I've always assumed lonelygirl15 was a fake of some sort. But not because I've ever watched one of her videos (I haven't) but because pretty much everybody I know who has discussed it (mostly on Metafilter) believed it to be a fake of some sort.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Tangentially...

Facebook (a My Space-esque site that I guess is more popular on the east coast) recently announced upcoming feature changes that people seemed to be pissed about (the speicific don't matter, or make sense). What amuses me is tht 600,000 people have joined a "protest group"...on Facebook. Yeah, way to stick it to them by continuing to use their service, give them hits, and load their advertisements.

[€uroMeinke]

I don't get it, I watched the linked video and she never took off her clothes - if it's fake she could at least get naked.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I think I'm the only person left who doesn't really care about other people's mundane details. I've been linked to various "funny" and/or "interesting" video blogs and I really don't see the attraction, especially if it's someone I don't personally know. I never really got into livejournals either.

[€uroMeinke]

I love blogs - of people I know, or who write well, or are doing anything interesting, or posting naked pictures - otherwise forget it.

[Kevy Baby]

I think I'm the only person left who doesn't really care about other people's mundane details.Nope; you are not the only one.

I can honestly say that I have never read any person's Live Journal/Blog/whatever.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Hey, aren't blogs just personal message boards without all the bantering back and forth? ;) Unless you have mental issues and argue with yourself. hmmmmm...

Here's mine! (Sorry no naked pictures!! lol ) http://www.myspace.com/40909299

[Kevy Baby]

Here's mine (http://www.dhmo.org)

[Prudence]

Lately I've been reading Wide Lawns and Narrow Minds. (http://widelawns.blogspot.com/) It's pretty amusing.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I think I'm the only person left who doesn't really care about other people's mundane details.

If blogs are mundane, they're not doing it correctly.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Think about this...

If there was no myspace, where would all those special Internet users be posting and hanging out?



Present company excepted of course Gn2Dlnd. Your myspace space is rock'n... :D


:blush:

[Cadaverous Pallor]

If blogs are mundane, they're not doing it correctly.Maybe it's just my lack of time that's the downfall. Seems every blog I've tried to read is full of references to past postings, so I start backtracking, just so I can find out where they work or whatever, and that's when the bordom sets in.

If we're talking about blogs that are commentary or comedy as oppposed to life stories, it's a whole 'nother thang. I check up on thesneeze.com every now and then because it can be pretty funny, and you don't need to know the past postings. Plus, even if you do dive into the archive (which I have) the posts are brief and easy to read and leave.

BTW, I don't wish to offend anyone here who blogs - I used to read LJs but found I couldn't keep up with all my far-flung friends and fell into the same pitfalls - "who were they dating again?" I also know people who post all kinds of things there that I feel are way too personal, things I feel guilty for reading even though they posted publicly.

I tried LJing myself but found that anything I wanted to put there was too personal for me to click "public". Everything else I post on the LoT. Add in my limited online time and my LJ presence has shrunk to nothing.

[Not Afraid]

LoT is a form a blogging and I don't find it mundane at all.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

LoT is a form a blogging and I don't find it mundane at all.Blogging is a newer form of posting things online, another step in the evolution of the net. Message boards far predate blogging. (Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogging) backs me up, if you want to discuss semantics ;) ) I don't get what you mean by this - Did you really think I meant that I think the LoT is mundane? :confused:

In the end it's pretty simple. I (obviously) really enjoy posting on a public message board. Blogging isn't my thing, I've tried it. At least for now; I can't promise I won't start blogging in 20 years or so. Each to his own :)

[tracilicious]

I think I'm the only person left who doesn't really care about other people's mundane details. I've been linked to various "funny" and/or "interesting" video blogs and I really don't see the attraction, especially if it's someone I don't personally know. I never really got into livejournals either.


I'm somewhat in between. If someone posts to their LJ something like, "I went grocery shopping today and bought blah blah blah. Then I went home and did blah and then watched blah..." I couldn't care less. I just scroll past. I find that the majority of my LJ's friends posts are meaningful updates or amusing/sad/unique happenings that I quite enjoy reading about. I rarely post to LJ because I rarely have anything terribly interesting to post. You can make posts friends only though. I quite miss reading yours CP. :)

[Capt Jack]

this just in (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/09/12/online.mystery.ap/index.html)

the interesting part being
Web detectives also concluded that Bree's MySpace account was being controlled by someone using a computer at the Hollywood talent firm Creative Artists Agency.

*coughfakecough*

:p

[MickeyD]

The creators have fessed up. (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14816502/wid/11915829&GT1=8596)