neverending lonelygirl15 youtube saga September 5, 2006
The NY Times Screens blog by TV critic Virginia Heffernan and LA Times' Richard Rushfield have become, like, totally obsessed with the YouTube video diaries of LonelyGirl15, which both pretty much believe is fake at this point, but they can't decide if it's hollywood-promo fake, YouTube promo fake or some other fake.
The set-up for the lonelygirl video series is this - She's a pretty teen who's homeschooled and from a religious family - oh and, perhaps creepily important, she's always dressed in some teeny tanktop. Take a look at the most recent entry here:
Personally, I don't get it the fascination with the vid series. While I've been known to get totally get sucked into MTV reality shows like Laguna Beach (and hate myself for it), I just found lonelygirl 15 kind of dull. But the conspiracy theory behind it has become pretty amusing. Check out the latest on the NY Times blog for an involvement denial from the YouTube founders and a no comment from an Encino lawyer who's applied for a lonelygirl15 trademark. Yeah, is there really any doubt about lonelygirl's fakeness?
