• Everybody in the world has a webcam or a USB capable video camera, so everybody in the world has the ability to make short videos and upload them to the internet.



• The website YouTube is one of the most popular places to post your videos, watch other people's videos, comment and send e-mail with each other, etc. It's kinda like blogging, only for pretty people.



• The second most popular video-poster at YouTube has been LonelyGirl15. Her videos have each been watched by three and four hundred thousand people. Sometimes more. LonelyGirl15 identifies herself as Bree, a sixteen year old American girl. She's cute, precocious, dorky, silly, innocent, etc. In her videos she talks about … well, nothing. Nothing really at all. She just talks. But the lighting is always very good and the editing, sound, mixing and effects are always fun and sharp. Much better than the average webcam product. Here's an example:

To millions of fans across the globe, she's Bree, a rebellious and often-naive teenage girl who has become an Internet sensation, starring in a series of YouTube video blogs under the handle "lonelygirl15." But as it was revealed this week, Bree isn't really Bree at all — she's Jessica Rose, a 19-year-old actress struggling to make her way in Los Angeles.

In a video posted a week ago titled Bree The Cookie Monster, Bree and Daniel rate batches of cookies they said they baked.

Bree's purple monkey puppet holds up score cards. The first one gets "10", the second "12" and the third one "06". Why "06" and not "6"?

Viewers point out that the sequence makes a date 10/12/06 - or October 12, 2006, using the US method of writing dates. October 12 also happens to be the birth date of the late occultist Aleister Crowley, whose picture can be seen on a wall in Bree's room.

… what did they hope to accomplish? Bree's YouTube videos... about 2 to 3 minutes long is a story about a young girl and how she lives and she spiraled to the top becoming "the second most suscribed to channel on YouTube.com. " I would say that is quite an accomplishment for an aspiring actress.

Okay. I get it. They set out to make an internet show starring a young girl and to make it interactive so viewers could up load their own thoughts and feelings and actually be able to tell the girl in the movie, "Don't go upstairs! The killer just went up the stairs!" And she'll hear you. Genius.

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