The Daily Hook

As you might have recently read, Youtube’s famous and now infamous LonelyGirl15 is a complete fraud. LonelyGirl15 is actually the creation of a dude named Mesh Flinders. If you are unsure of what the hell I’m talking about, you probably don’t frequent the site Youtube. Basically, LonelyGirl15 is a young girl who makes video confessions and posts them on YouTube. She is one of the most popular ‘vloggers’ (video producers) on the site and on the web as a whole. Her videos commonly average over 500,000 views and she is seen as a revolutionary of online video. Now that she has come clean and it has been uncovered that the whole production of the show was carefully orchestrated and followed a script, it is still wildly successful! Viewers and fan of LonelyGirl15 seemed to take things in stride. This is pretty ridiculous, really. Her fans were writing to her asking for advice on emotionally riveting events in their lives and they thought they were receiving advice straight from her. The advice they actually received were from assistants of the production. I think this is kind of comical, but it is crazy to think about. Here is one of her videos: