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13 Mar 08

Wired 14.12: The Secret World of Lonelygirl

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    The
    YouTube community was sucked into the plot and speculated endlessly
    about



    Bree's
    faith. Some thought she was Mormon; others insisted she was a
    Satanist.



    Another
    group tried to figure out where she lived: The leading guess was




    somewhere
    in the Midwest. Viewers spent hours Googling the possibilities
    and



    posting
    their results on YouTube.
  • so his father, a marketing executive at an IT company, agreed to invest in the
    newly formed Lonelygirl15 production company. Beckett immediately called Rose
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Wired 14.12: YouTube vs. Boob Tube

  • YouTube
    refused to sell ads appended to either end of a video

Wired 14.12: YouTube vs. Boob Tube

  • #2
    Will
    advertisers risk associating themselves with violence, pornography, hate


    speech,
    or God knows what lurks out there one click away?
  • that so many people are already on YouTube
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Wired 14.12: The Secret World of Lonelygirl

  • Goodfried's advice was simple. "If anyone asks point-blank if you're real,
    don't answer the question," he said. "Don't lie to people. The answer is no
    answer. In my mind, it's the equivalent of not lying. But if people talk to Bree
    like she's Bree, that's fair game."

  • #8
    The
    previous week, one guy had offered her a part in a movie if she would
    use

    her
    student ID to buy him discounted film at Kodak
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Wired 14.12: The Secret World of Lonelygirl

  • When he got to college, Flinders dreamed up an alter ego – an awkward, geeky
    homeschooled girl. As a camp counselor, he told fireside tales about her
    experiences. He wrote short stories about her, and when he tried to make it as a
    writer in Hollywood, he put her in his screenplays.

  • But nobody bought his scripts: Agents and producers didn't think much of the
    character he had created. After working a few years as an assistant to an
    independent director and struggling to stay out of debt, he left town and moved
    in with his grandmother in Merced. He supported himself by writing a draft of a
    film for an aspiring producer in Maryland; it was about a serial killer.

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