New LonelyGirl15 Video - "Swimming"
Aggggh! This is driving me nuts. I'm convinced these are all pre-taped. Can someone expose it already? Is this Hanso-related?
Posted at 10:03 PM in Video
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August 30, 2006
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Yeah now I've gotten to the point where I don't even care, I just want answers...plus if she's going to wear a one piece, what's the goddamn point?
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I really hope this isn't fake. I am not keeping my fingers crossed but I might shed a tear or two if it all turns to muck since I feel a real strong connection to LG15. Oh dear god of science hear my pleas!
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Drove me nuts too...
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The latest is
(1) a good suspicion she lives in San Mateo/Mountain View, CA area. Also happens to be Youtube headquarters!
(2) swimming video is from Sierra mountains in central California.
(3) still can't say if real or fake, but definitely not a big-budget production.
check out my blog for link, etc., if you're obsessed with this
milowent.blogspot.com
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a one piece?!?!
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How is this any different than emogirl15?
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I don't think they were pre-taped at all. I found your site through this site that contradicts your suspicions.
lonelygirl15fanclub.com
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please talk about music. blogging about non-music related celebrities and youtube posts causes cancer. to reiterate another's post, no discussion of new m. ward? jessica simpson, nickel creek, john mayer, van halen porno music. for shame. just because something is easy doesn't mean its right. i hope your advertisers drop you. if you're going to focus on the worst things on earth like john mayer and videoblogging, at least include stuff about starving babies and environmental crisis because the latter are as sad and inevitable as the former; and maybe more important.
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Yeah he's right I have a cancerous tumor growing on my dick now
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dude, seriously......
.....seriously dude
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i can't wait for the youtube of hers that hits all the papers - her icing somebody. she looks effin' looney as hell. and 30.
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Yeah I agree that its pre-taped now. All that talk about Daniel and "Cassie" makes me think they are trying to set up a love triangle of some sort.
It would be terribly cool if lonelygirl15 was Hanso related. Or just JJ Abrhams even. She looks so much like Felicity sometimes that it's freaky.
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Yes! Thank God you've posted something about this. (Please keep this up as this is the only normal place I have to vent about the saga.)
Here's a theory: What if LonelyGirl15 is Cassie? She says how people were so mean to her and goes on and on about this girl, and then Daniel keeps saying how he doesn't know who she's talking about. What if she used to be ugly, got hot, and is now planning an elaborate scheme for revenge?
Or maybe Cassie was her sister who killed herself from the humiliation of school and now Bree is seeking revenge upon her tormentors in an effort to avenge her sister's death!!
This all has to be some set up for something big. Maybe she'll post a video of her torturing Daniel or something. (Afterall, she does get pleasure out of killing those bugs...)
I know there are tons of holes in these ideas, so don't even try to nitpick and prove me wrong. They're unlikely, I know.
And to Steven who said "I found this site through this site that contradicts your suspicions. Lonelygirl15 fanclub." How can you think this is real? And how can you read so much into the details of this to determine it's real? I just watch it for fun.
On different news programs, I've seen stories about geriatric1927, drunk Britney, the ok go video, and other massively popular youtube videos. It's only a matter of time before this gets a bit of media attention. How will the storyline shift if her parents supposedly see it?
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2006/08/lonelygirl15_th_1.html
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Here's my theory:
This is written and produced by people who want to get a movie studio deal, from the publicity this results in.
The end.
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i find myself agreeing with J.
i will stick to watching music videos and old cartoons on youtube. this shit is retarded.
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THIS IS LIKE SOFT PORN!
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If I was Lonelygirl15 and I didn't pretape all this stuff, I would address the fact that everyone is convinced I'm fake, yet instead, she just goes swimming.
I don't care if this is not music related Scott. I don't think I've gotten cancer yet, and if I do, at least maybe I'll die knowing wtf is going on.
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Haha I would pay to see a Lonelygirl revenge movie.
Pehaps Daniel is a hermaphrodite who underwent gender re-assignment and he is actually Cassie.
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after watching a few of her youtube videos and reading some of these comments, i'm really getting an overwhelming feeling of fucking creeped out. why is the internet so damn creepy!? please lets talk about music and not about weather this girl should wear a one peice or not. fucking creepy.
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I don't get it.
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Shhhhhhhhh......
You're just encouraging them.
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Time for Daniel to hit her over the head with a rock, strangle her with her one peice, and fuck her dead body up the ass! Music suggestions?
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I agree. Scott, a gentle suggestion: leave this thing to someone else and let's talk about some music.
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wow i've never heard of this til now, why are ppl so into it? It's like a 16yr old's deep poetry or something. pretty silly if you ask me.
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what a scandalous bathing suit.
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I hear lonelygirl15 is dating John Mayer now too...
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aww leave s'gum alone. this could be like themodernage and consist of post after post about how 'kewl the cute is what we aim for show was last night!!!1'
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How 'bout we talk about the music on the lg15 video, then? I feel like that music just made everything take a big turn for the creepy.
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This is so fake...I know for a fact this is just leading to her boyfirend (the real one, not these scrpited actors) to sell off product placement in these vids once they reach a certain amount of viewership.
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i'm a bit ashamed, but ever since I read Virginia Heffernan's article in the NYTimes I have watched nearly all the videos, trying to look for a revealing sign, be it lighting, cinematography, or editing (i'm a filmmaker) to reveal it's a fake... but so far, 0 clues (besides the fact the production values are super good)...
... If the Daniel guy wasn't so - how should I put this - unattractive, I'd write it off quickly as a fake, a promotional vehicle for teen actors or something. Esp. if they used an Abercrombie & Fitch type of guy. But that's not the case...
V.V. Puzzled by it all...
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overview of it being a fake:
http://www.slumdance.com/blogs/brian_flemming/archives/002277.html
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How could anyone, for a second, think this is real. I've seen 1 and a half episodes and have never seen more obvious glam camera-molesting. i would love to see the odds on real:fake, i would stake my vast fortune on it. That's not to say it isn't a clever idea.
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i'm so tired of you whiny assholes taking the time to say you don't like something that stereogum posts. it takes--what--two seconds to scroll to the next post, something that perhaps you'll enjoy more than a discussion of lonelygirl15--which CLEARLY many people (including myself) DO enjoy. obviously stereogum can't please everyone, so realize that and stop wasting your time posting to complain--it's annoying.
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thanks duffy. very informative. but i'll tell you one thing - those titties are real! yeehaaaah!
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thanks duffy. very informative. but i'll tell you one thing - those titties aren't fake! yeehaaaah!
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i thought she was dating james blunt?
am i the only one who knows about this shite but has never seen more than ten seconds of a video before feeling horrible about myself and quickly switching to borat clips?
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i don't know but i hear she's repped by CAA. movie deal forthcoming...
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I've been reading Mr. Stereogum's stuff for years, even before he had this website. Back then, he was just a fellow LiveJournaler with good taste in music. This celebrity stuff has been part of the Stereogum world as long as I've known it. I'd be kinda upset with him if he ever stopped posting stuff like this, because he'd just be caving in and not doing what he enjoys.
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About as real as those billboards from the fake jilted wife two months ago. Another drawn-out ad campaign. Keep biting. See you on the boat, suckers.
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I was already pretty suspicious, but this is by far the fakest video they've made so far. The whole thing is basically Daniel (or whatever his REAL name is) checking her out. He edited it, too. Why include the little unimportant blurb about this 'Cassie' if it wasn't for a future storyline? And why would it be posted on LG's account? Unless of course she likes checking herself out.
Which is nto to say I don't love these videos, because I do, but I want more religious clues! It's all about the debates in the comments...
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I vote for Daniel killing her and ass fucking her corpse.
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Scientology commercial.
Keep posting on it, Scott!
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This is obviously fake. Its postmodern advertising done by You Tube. I think its pretty genius. Think about the press this has been getting. For christ sake it had a write up in the new york times. This is all free publicity for you tube.
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To me they just look like some bored 20-somethings that make up stories and drama about their so-called life to keep themselves entertained... and all the attention doesn't hurt either. What I don't get is why it's so damn popular. Do guys seriously think the girl is that attractive or something? Are people really that engrossed in their "lives"? Or is it just the fascination about what the hell it is in the first place?
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Cayce Pollard on this, stat.
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RE: Cayce Pollard...I started reading William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" on the same day that I started reading about the lonelygirl15 videos.
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What exactly is "pre-taped?" They film it before they film it? It's just two of them so I'm not sure how it would be pre taped. Someone please elaborate.
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"Is this Hanso related?" Love it.
Problem is both lonelygirl15 and Hanso's Rachel Blake are making the world safe for actresses who are BEYOND shitty.
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"Pre-taped" meaning it's been posited that the original production of the whole series occurred over a few days or so, but the videos are being released over an extended schedule to make them correspond to the timeframe of the narrative. So sez the internet.
The latest one has the Daniel character reading the latest issue of Rolling Stone to deliberately make the point that it's recent.
More chatter here: http://www.lonelygirl15.com/forum/list.php?2
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what's the song in the background?
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She can't act at all. Daniel should kill her her and fuck her corpse up the ass.
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this is definitely some kind of music promotion thing: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2336500&blogID=162427850&MyToken=0b5a317f-b5ea-4b2d-8dc0-e57173464adb
the band that does the song in the background calls it a "cool new blog" -- like it's a kind of marketing tool...
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Fake all the way, I mean look at how good and consistent the camera work/lighting is, the people have just the right "look", etc... being in the field myself I should know! Smoke and mirrors people! In any case, I wonder what they are trying to sell? YouTube promo seems like a good guess, the other good guess being some kind of music promotional tool. But what band? Some new art project by Langsing-Dreiden? Guesses?
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Yeah, watching the new video with the Dylan 'Rolling Stone' proves it's not all pre-taped.
I still wanna know what the fuck they're selling, though.
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But, but, but...now it's being suggested by notable Breeologists that the cover was superimposed. Either way it's probably a deliberate nod to the question without addressing it directly.
Of course she never mentions the ongoing controversy at all in the videos, like anyone else posting in real time would. So either it was pretaped or it's all ignored because the initial storyline is all that's relevant, and discussing the hubbub would detract from it or at least break the "fifth wall" or something (fourth wall doesn't apply because that's broken by nature of video blogging itself).
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Mostly I'm just hoping this turns out to be real because that would prove that real life is fake. It IS turtles all the way down.
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I think this proves that Daniel should kill her and ass fuck her corpse.
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im so confused. wtf? why do people watch her videos and care about her? my hermit neighbor is more interesting. i just dont understand. i dont.
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vids of your hermit neighbor, plz!!!!!!
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i agree with all about the 1 piece plus it looks REALLY bad on her it makes her look wide, fat, and has a BIG butt
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