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Post by milowent on Dec 14, 2006 14:47:10 GMT -5
with 2006 fast approaching its close, i'm sure we'll see a number of stories recapping the lonelygirl15 phenomenon among the events of the year. here is one: www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=11029Top 50 freakouts of 2006 11. YouTube's overnight star lonelygirl15 creates an outcry when it's revealed - gasp! - that she's not actually just a lonely cutie who digs webcam confessions, but a New Zealand actress named Jessica Rose, whose meandering thoughts were scripted. Twenty-four million viewers were duped... not bad acting at all. |
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Post by hyemew on Dec 14, 2006 15:02:16 GMT -5
I hate how the press keeps portraying this as everyone was duped. Sure many were, but there were also a chorus of "fake!" screamers from pratically the very first episode. Also there definitely were not 24 million unique viewers of LG pre-reveal but that's besides the point.
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Post by slainte on Dec 14, 2006 18:55:37 GMT -5
Yeah..but you gotta admit that is SOME LIST! and "we" didn't hit the top ten!
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Post by hyemew on Dec 14, 2006 19:49:02 GMT -5
Ahh but it is in no particular order!
Which is a good thing because somehow I don't think a plane landing in some Canadian city was really the number 1 freakout of 2006.
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Post by buckwheat on Dec 18, 2006 11:38:23 GMT -5
Ten moments the web shook the world This was the year mainstream media learned the Internet wasn't just at the doorstep--it had torn the door off its hinges. By Richard Rushfield, Times Staff Writer December 17, 2006 Rich Rushfield is back: "Lonely planet. The most riveting entertainment story of the year was neither the Mel Gibson nor Tom Cruise flameouts, or the Tom Freston firing, but the mystery of a (supposedly) teenage girl sitting in her bedroom, telling tales into her webcam of her precocious (if uneventful) home-schooled life. Was lonelygirl15 in danger — and was she even for real? The off-camera mystery of who and where she was inspired an army of investigators. As it turned out, the mystery girl was walking among us right here in L.A., and the series was a fictional invention of two aspiring filmmakers. But the revelation made its way to the pages and screens of every major news organization, making it a phenom more discussed than your average $200-million production." link |
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Post by noasinger on Dec 18, 2006 13:01:43 GMT -5
Nice reference!
I wish more journalists would mention the interesting aspect that the production team has been teaching themselves how to structure this as they have gone along.
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Post by milowent on Dec 20, 2006 10:02:15 GMT -5
Moments that made us talk: Pop culture 2006 (AP article) www.vaildaily.com/article/20061215/NATIONAL02/61215011... SEPTEMBER... Some YouTube followers of the young Lonelygirl15 are crushed to discover that she isn’t the authentic teenager whose life they’d been following, but actually an actress hired to play the part. But isn’t that the point of Internet fame — it’s democratic (it could be you or me tomorrow) and it’s heady, but sometimes it just isn’t ... real?
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