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•. 182K subscribers • 396 videos. lonelygirl15, the first of many shows within the fictional LG15 Universe, tells the ongoing story of a group of young adults fighting against a mysterious secret...
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- Cast and Characters
- Production
- Hoax
- Other Media
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Season one
Bree Avery (lonelygirl15), a homeschooled 16-year-old girl, begins posting video blogs on YouTube about her mundane daily life and her interests, such as science and her purple monkey puppet, P-Monkey. Her best friend, Daniel (Danielbeast), occasionally appears in the videos and uploads videos of his own, and a romantic connection between Daniel and Bree starts to form as tensions regarding Bree's family's strange, unnamed religion arise between Bree and Daniel, and later between Bree and her...
Conception and casting
After quitting a plastic surgery program, Miles Beckett, who was producing video podcasts in Los Angeles, discovered YouTube in 2005 after seeing The Lonely Island's video for their song "Lazy Sunday" on Myspace. At the time, YouTube was still mostly unknown. He got the idea for a fictional narrative story told through a series of ostensibly authentic video blogs, or vlogs, after watching videos of YouTube duo Smosh lip-syncing to the Pokémon theme songand realizing it was difficult to tell t...
Filming, writing, editing, and release
Rose's first vlog as Bree, "First Blog/Dorkiness Prevails", was posted to the Lonelygirl15 YouTube channel on June 16, 2006. It was one minute and 35 seconds long, unscripted, and produced with a budget of $130. The video used a broken desk lamp and natural light from a window for lighting, and was filmed using a Logitech QuickCam in Flinders's bedroom, which was decorated with furniture from thrift stores and Target, including a pink feather boa and a floral blanket, to give it the appearanc...
Funding and sponsorships
According to Flinders, Lonelygirl15 was largely self-funded in the beginning, and he and Goodfried went into around $50,000 of credit card debt trying to fund the series. In October 2006, Lonelygirl15 partnered with the United Nations to make an advertisement for its Millennium Campaign's "Stand Up" anti-poverty project, in which Bree spoke to viewers about poverty and what could be done to stop it. Regarding the campaign, a writer for Gawker asked, "...does an internet celebrity carry any we...
According to Goodfried, viewers began commenting on Lonelygirl15 channel's videos with accusations that they were scripted after the account posted its second or third video. Viewers found that Bree's life seemed too similar to common plot points found in fictional series, and were skeptical of her lack of response to the hoax accusations and her r...
Spinoffs
After launching the production company LG15 Studios, Beckett and Goodfried created KateModern, a British Lonelygirl15 spinoff. It ran from July 2007 through June 2008 on Bebo, and took place in the same fictional universe.[citation needed] LG15 Studios became EQAL in 2008 after receiving $5 million from Spark Capital. EQAL's second Lonelygirl15 spinoff, LG15: The Resistance, premiered in September 2008, with 10-minute-long episodes being released weekly on YouTube, MySpaceTV, imeem, Veoh, and...
Relaunch
In June 2016, on the tenth anniversary of the first video posted to the account, a trailer for a relaunch of Lonelygirl15 was posted to their YouTube channel, which featured Rose returning as Bree. The trailer was filmed two days before it was posted. Beckett planned the relaunch alongside Jenni Powell, a production assistant for the original series. Powell wrote in an email regarding the relaunch that the two hoped "to bring the show to a whole new audience while utilizing technologies that...
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Jan 24, 2007 · By Virginia Heffernan. Jan. 24, 2007. Lonelygirl15 wants a career. She’s considering becoming a forest ranger but lacks the stomach for herd-thinning. Teaching aerobics is another option, but...
Featured review. 9/10. Lonelygirl15 = BEST internet series on YouTube. Lonelygirl15 revolves around Bree; a 17 year old girl on the run from a scary group called The Order, which poses as a religion called the Hymn of One. I overall think this is an EXCELLENT series.
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- 2006-06-12
- Drama
- Yousef Abu-Taleb, Jackson Davis, Jessica Rose
Jun 16, 2016 · Home > Life. How Lonelygirl15 taught us to doubt everything on the internet. The only thing that was really kidnapped was our hearts. By Tricia Gilbride on June 16, 2016. Credit:...
- Tricia Gilbride
- tgilbride@mashable.com
Lonelygirl15 revolves around Bree; a 17 year old girl on the run from a scary group called The Order, which poses as a religion called the Hymn of One. I overall think this is an EXCELLENT series. All the acting is superb, and the videos are really entertaining to watch.
But Lonelygirl15 was an inspirational catalyst for many – and the channel is still getting new subscribers (it’s now on 156,000), despite the fact that its last video was back in 2009. Until now. On 15th June 2016, the channel had 395 videos. On 16th June, that rose to 396.
