Message from Lonelygirl15.com

[flwright]

I just got this email from Lonelyworld:

The following is an email sent to you by an administrator of "Lonelygirl15". If this message is spam, contains abusive or other comments you find offensive please contact the webmaster of the board at the following address:

[e-mail]

Include this full email (particularly the headers).

Message sent to you follows:
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LG15 friends,

You have helped to make Lonelygirl15 the Internet phenomena that it has become. Fan interaction and participation was one of the goals that the LG15 creators had in mind when they first came up with the idea of Bree and her vblogs. Soon, the LG15 web site will features tools that will allow you to create your own characters and maintain your own story lines. Over time, your stories can even intersect and influence others, including those of Bree and Daniel.

We still need to get the word out though. LG15 is only just beginning. Now is the perfect time to introduce LG15 to your friends and family. One way of doing this is by linking LG15 videos into your own online content. Located at the bottom of the Lonelygirl15.com home page is the "Grab This Video" section. From here you can cut-and-paste code which you can use to embed LG15 videos into your MySpace profile or blogs, Livejournal, Blogger or any number of other social networking sites. There is even a simple link you can use in e-mail signatures. Lastly, for friends who may not have broadband Internet access, you can download complete videos and burn them onto CD.

We thank your for your support. With your help, we can make LG15 one of the greatest Internet phenomena ever seen. So please share the fun, excitement and mystery of Lonelygirl15 with your friends and family today!

Sincerely,
The Staff at Lonelygirl15.com

[milowent]

thanks, fl. that must've hit my spam filter. "Lg15 is only just beginning"?? veery interesting.

time to call great grandma and get her over to revver, i guess.

[lesbrent]

I didn't get that message in my LG15 email either. Is it valid?

ok d'oh - it's in my email I registered with.

noa, huh? catfish?

[Terryfic]

The last couple days I have lost a lot of respect for the creators. If you remember the first post by the creators they said “We hope that you will join us in the continuing story of Lonelygirl15, and help us usher in an era of interactive storytelling where the line between "fan" and "star" has been removed, and dedicated fans like yourselves are paid for their efforts.”, well first off we all know about the interaction simply not existing, I want to deal with the getting paid aspect of that promise.

They are now asking their fans to design t-shirts for them so they can sell them and making money - they will ‘pay’ a free t-shirt to the lucky fan that designs one. This seems pretty lame to me, if they were actually interested in removing the line between “fan” and “star” they would set up a system like café press where anyone could upload a t-shirt design and would get money whenever it sold. It looks more like they are just looking for some free graphic design work.

Plus the spam email sent out earlier today, I label it is spam as it contains no real information at all. It totes the same promises made almost two months ago, all of which are no closer to coming true. Then it goes on to pretty much beg people to help market it for them. In Canada the number one factor for a business’ survival is word of mouth, and asking people to spread it for you doesn’t help. It isn’t the sort of thing you can force and trying to do so looks kind of pathetic.

I like the videos, but whoever is running the business plan is making this look really amateurish and is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

[wednesday]

Wow! Or rather, yuck. I completely agree with Terry (and I always agree with Noa on principal). I have to say this reeks of "there is a little Bree in all of us."

[curiousgeorge]

"c" as in crass move on the part o' the creators.

Or is this a move made by the current incarnation of the Bukanator???

[noasinger]

The only true Bukanator is ours, dammit.

[curiousgeorge]

Word Noa.

Long live Bukanator the First! (and you T, although I don't remember which version you were...)

[hyemew]

I woke up to that e-mail this morning. I was pissed to get it, as Terry said it was nothing more than a promotional which wanted us to get more fans for them.
Once we get them more fans, they are then able to sell more t-shirts that WE design! I couldn't believe it... when I heard about the t-shirt contest I was like wow, seeing as this is LG they could have some pretty cool prizes! And then... the prize... a free t-shirt? I almost laughed at the patheticness of that. Of course in order to get the prize I'm sure that you have to sign away all rights to make any money for yourself off the design and sign over all the rights to it.