Back Story on Bree and Daniel

[mettle]

Discussion of what Bree and Daniel's history was before LG15 can go here.

Not too much is clicking right now, but:

- Analysis of her behavior and a spectrogram of her speech suggest Bree is basically an American
- Others have detected NZ in her accent and she know a decent amount about some random NZ things like communes.
- People have made guesses as to Daniel's religion, but I personally don't think it's relavent...

- Bree seems clearly older than 16. Somewhere around 20, perhaps, based on her looks and mannerisms.

[piscin]

We also know that Daniel and Bree went to school together, though only briefly.

This is taken from comments section for 8/21/06 peace offering video:

lonelygirl15 (2 weeks ago)
The reason I don't have many friends is because I had some problems in public school and Daniel was the only person who was nice to me. So they homeschooled me and Daniel and I stayed friends

[mettle]

Hi piscin,

I meant for this thread to be about the real back story on the actors. Therefore, anything they say in the story is suspect. There should be another thread in the PLOT section about this, though.
My bad for not calling it: Back Story on the Actors Playinf Bree and Daniel.

[piscin]

Sorry, my bad.

[Game Theory]

I think Bree could simply be an actress who went to Los Angeles to make it in the film business (happens every day), but she does have the background she talks about.

I think she traveled a lot, as she said. Including to Nottinghamshire. That stuff is too specific to be entirely made up.

I would guess the Lazy Eye thing is also true.

And she may be a college student. She reads books nobody would read without an assignment.

Oh, and I personally think she's 20+ years old.

[brendel99]

Hmm, I still think, as I posted at the old place - hi btw, first post here:) - that Bree/Bree the actress is mostly NZ or Australian. Her American accent seems a top layer, or a thin layer. And re her behaviour or mannerism I don't think that's very American either, she's quirky in a way I recognise as very UK/Aus/NZ, the way she conceals as well as reveals, I think I mean. I understand not everyone may see that.

As for the UK angle tho, "nottinghamshire" to me suggests if she's been there at all, it wasn't for very long. It's an odd way to describe that part of the world unless you're reading from a map.

As for how old; to begin with I thought 23/24, now I think she could be a bit younger. But 16 is a stretch. I watched the first few vids and got a bit cross, I was thinking what a shame, she could have said 17/18 and got away with it, so I'm puzzled that she didn't.

[brendel99]

I guess this is backstory(?) skeeter hunting.....

I've been wondering who says that, and where do they say it?

(also I think "skeeter hunting 2.0" is pretty smart....)

[mettle]

Yeah - reference to Web 2.0 where we create content for each other...

brendel99 said:

I guess this is backstory(?) skeeter hunting.....

I've been wondering who says that, and where do they say it?

(also I think "skeeter hunting 2.0" is pretty smart....)

[Passer inassatus]

There are also some bits of evidence that point to the actress playing Bree as being from Iowa.

1. Longtime AnandTech message board member edprush claims that LG15 is his cousin: forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=1919504&frmKeyword=&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

08/29/2006 04:50 PM
She was 'discovered' when she was working at an information booth at a state park in Iowa.

She did some print modeling and then was hired to do the 'spots.' I don't know which studio she is working for.

She is NOT homeschooled. Her hometown has only about 900 residents.

Her middle name is Bree.

08/29/2006 04:54 PM
If you don't know what I'm referring to you soon will. I bet someone here knows.

She has been asked by her employer to attend a private school in Oregon or receive private tutoring for this school year.

08/29/2006 04:57 PM
Her purpose is not what you think.

She is ungodly smart but she much more worldly than she lets on.

I have never met this "Daniel."

08/31/2006 07:27 PM
Does a studio own youtube.com?

I have received a BUNCH of emails and PMs regarding folks wanting more information about her. I have heard from another of our cousins that she is getting closer to being 'outed.' I don't know if that means they will reveal that she and the guy (who looks very familiar to me for some reason. I mean that I've seen him on tv commercial before or something).

Our other cousin said that some talk show (maybe Leno or Letterman) knows some youtube people and they're going to invite her on. I have no idea if she and Daniel will say the truth or that they really are friends just messing around with a video camera.

But then there's this: forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=1921419&enterthread=y

2. Curiously, a missing background image on LG15's YouTube channel might point to another Iowa connection. The HTML source for her page references a background image from artist Jamie Elizabeth Hudrlik. The image is no longer on the web (and so doesn't appear on YouTube), but here's thumbnail from Google's cache: images.google.com/images?q=tbn:JrWEK96o2xakIM:http://archives.colum.edu/portfolio/albums/jamieelizabethhudrlik/aas.jpg
And here's a Google cache of the gallery on which the painting appeared: 64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ys5FCPE8kFIJ:archives.colum.edu/portfolio/jamieelizabethhudrlik

An interview with Jamie Elizabeth Hudrlik dated 03/12/05 shows that she's from Iowa: teamabunai.org/jamieelizabeth/

I'll be 25 this March 10th. I'm from IOWA. Born in a small town named Bellevue; grew up in a college town named Iowa City. Grew up in a single parent home...

It's certainly not enough to corroborate edprush's story, but Bellevue, Iowa, might be the small hometown that he mentions. According to Wikipedia, Bellevue weighed in at 942 households in 2000. (It seems an easy mistake to confuse total housholds with total population.) And a check of Google Maps shows a Bellevue State Park just outside of town.

Now, one problem I see with this connection is that it implies the actress playing Bree also selected the image for the YouTube page. And that's not a given.

So I ask, do the people of the greater Dubuque area go skeeter hunting?

[waffle]

I have often thought that the Bree and Daniel actors are not friends in reality, as there seems to be very little chemistry between them. Not much - but just a musing.

[johngreen]

That's great stuff, Passer. And this is a guy who has been posting on the board forever and is well-respected, right?

I'll say this: If she IS close to being outed, then Flemming's post "It's not about the girl; it's about the game," leads me to conclude that he IS involved, and that he's trying to keep the game alive after the naming of Bree and Daniel.

-John Green
www.sparksflyup.com

[wixy15]

That is a specific comment - not about the girl.

What about if it was taken as:

"It's not about those involved, acters and those behind the scenes."

[socalgrl]

Wixy--your post is a bit cryptic
do you mean that Flemming is implying that "it's" about:
1) religion? (going back to that annabananah discussion on another thread)
2) The plot of the show?

Or am I really missing the point of your post?

[wixy15]

Leave the 2nd part of his quote the same.

It's not about those involved, its about the game.

I was just to say that he may be using Bree 'the girl' as an object to describe all persons involved with the project.

Didn't mean to be cryptic, sorry.

[phate]

www.bellevue.k12.ia.us/

more on bellevue, thier mascot is the comet. funny that we just got a stars refrence in the vid the other day, so maybe that is where we got the fan of astronomy refrence.