A story about a woman who ran the YouTube bar who gained explosive popularity on YouTube in 2006

About 20 years since YouTube launched its service, in 2016, the existence of YouTuber (YouTube), which uploads your own movies and earns money, was taken up not only on the Internet but also on television, It began to be recognized. It can also be said that YouTuber's running "Lonelygirl 15"A woman named 16-year-old Bleary uploaded a movie that talks about her everyday life with utter attention, but in fact there are producers and screenwriters, and Mr. Brie is a fictional woman who does not exist It turned out that it was controversial.

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In June 2006, a 16-year-old woman named Bully posted a movie "First Blog / Dorkiness Prevails" with an account name of Lonelygirl 15. The movie talks about favorite video bloggers and talks about a little strange private things such as "the city in which I live is boring and only PC," "parents believe cult religion" With the content saying, Don Don and movies are posted after this, sometimes drawing a love pattern with Brian's best friend Daniel and gaining popularity of users, it became a movie series on YouTube quickly. Its popularity was tremendous, and the feature was organized many times in the major newspaper The New York Times.

Lonelygirl15's first video or blog posted can be checked from the following movie.

First Blog / Dorkiness Prevails - YouTube


However, Bory, Daniel, and all the stories told in the movie that appeared in the series of Lonelygirl 15 are creations, and behind it was a photographer and a screenwriter. Lonelygirl 15's gimmer is a man named Miles Becket who turned from a surgeon's resident to a film production. When YouTube just started the service, Beckett said, "In addition to using a webcam, anyone can post a movie, and it is difficult to distinguish whether the movie is genuine or fake, and to post a fiction work It is perfect and you may be able to do something like a television program. "

Mr. Beckett cooperated with Mr. Mesh Flinders of the screenwriter who sprang up with the bar and said, "The main character is a 16-year-old woman called Brie, who is always on the Internet, I love history and science, and my best friend Daniel There are many things to play, it is an ordinary girl, but there are also unusual points that parents believe cult religion. " In addition, it seems that we have thoroughly investigated the way people talk about popular users and the shooting location to gain popularity on YouTube.

And he held an audition to hire performers, elected Jessica Lee Rose who was 19 years old at the time as Bury, and Youssef Abu Teleb as his best friend Daniel. Rose, who did not know that it was a program on the Internet until it was accepted for the audition thought that "being cheated?" After knowing the fact, he seems to have stopped appearing once. At that time, it seemed that there was still a trend of "appearing as an actress on the content of the Internet = pornographic movie", and Rose thought that Lonelygirl 15 is actually a pornographic movie, but after consulting with Mr. Terubu serving as Daniel , I decided to approve the appearance.

Mr. Rose who plays Bree and Mr. Teleb who plays Daniel.


Mr. Beckett, the guru of Lonelygirl 15, is a friend and a lawyer, Greyg Goodfried, who is responsible for the business side, and Amanda who is Mr. Graig's wife hides the identity of Mr. Rose and Terubu , The project started with making and managing accounts of Bree and Daniel that actually does not exist on MySpace.

In the room of the screenwriter Flinders, shooting was proceeded by replacing interior decoration and furniture with things that seemed to be 16 year old girls. The first few works in the series follow the plot of other works that have already gained popularity on YouTube "to tell your life in front of webcams." Furthermore, Lonelygirl 15 is "most viewed on YouTube" by replying to all comments, increasing the total number of comments, or changing thumbnail images to attractive things like clicking without thinking, It became popular as it became regulars of works.


Initially at the beginning of the project, the series was expected to be finished in six months, it was planned to publish the continuing indie film, but as YouTube gained explosive popularity and expanded the number of users, Lonelygirl 15 Will become immovable, changing the original schedule and Lonelygirl 15 will be continued without being cut off. The popularity of this time was about enough to spew out the number of views from 5 to 100 thousand times in about 2 hours after uploading a movie, for example.

However, as Lonelygirl 15 gets fans, the more you gain against the Lonelygirl 15, the so-called anti-numbers are steadily increasing, and finally Bree and Daniel really exist. Lonelygirl 15 is a 16-year-old girl really A user who started the survey came out whether it is a movie you are uploading.

Not only anti but also fans of Lonelygirl 15 started investigating and the official website of Lonelygirl 15 was established before the release of the first movie of the series and the page of Mr. Brie on MySpace is managed by others It turned out to be. Furthermore, the survey result was sent to the newspaper LA Times by the fans, and suspicion of Lonelygirl 15 became news decorating one side of the LA Times.

Until this time, it is not revealed "Who is playing Brie"? Mr. Rose who played Brie was "scared of when the presence of his existence is scary everyday, fans It became scary enough to proceed as the people progressed, because why I became frightened because I did not want to misunderstand that we were lying and did not anger the fans. We just wanted you to have fun as content, and the lie is not attached.When the user asked, "When Lonelygirl 15 is fiction?" I did not answer at all. "

However, at last Rose's own MySpace and Facebook accounts have been discovered, and from the evidence we can see that Bree and Rose are the same person. At last it came to where it came and Beckett who led Lonelygirl 15 immediately opened a news conference and made everything clear. As a result, Mr. Rose, who is Mr. Bree, does not become disliked by fans, but by gaining great attention, it gains new fans and gains more popularity than ever before.

However, on this occasion, Mr. Rose draws himself from Lonelygirl 15, and as of 2016 he got married and lives a peaceful life with an actress in Austria. "Everything was too early for Lonelygirl 15. I was still young and not ready to get that popularity and the first job for me to do an actress on YouTube was that it was not easy for me, I did not think that it would be a long-running work to be continued afterwards. "I talked about my feelings when I quit Lonelygirl 15.


Lonelygirl 15 continues the series even after Mr. Rose and Mr. Daniel have left out, and even as of 2016 the movie has been uploaded. However, it is not a form of video blog, but it is a form of "alternative reality game" that allows users to interact with their everyday world as part of the game.

Mr. Rose sometimes asks you to say "I want to watch Rose's movie on YouTube!" From the fans as in 2016, but even when I created an account in Instagram, I appeared in Lonelygirl 15 Due to various problems, we will never post movies to YouTube again. However, "I love playing the character called Brie, I still love my favorite character, sometimes I miss that moment," Lonelygirl 15 is a great deal in Rose's life I understand that it has influenced it.