I have to admit, I totally missed the whole soap opera going on this summer about LonelyGirl15...and for this, I'm thankful. When I start following a 15 year old's love life, it's time to put the laptop away and find a new hobby. But now I'm interested because it looks like this whole thing has been set up.

After reading about Bree for the first time on AdFreak, I started looking through all the other articles about her. Other articles? Who would waste their time writing about a teenager's YouTube videos? Try New York Magazine, the LA Times, Business Week, the New York Times and Times Online. It appears that when you take this home-schooled, attention-starved lonely girl, her boyfriend DanielBeast, their sock puppet (don't ask), and then the dozens of people making their own videos in response, you get an example of a new trend called "wikiTV", and some say it's just beginning.

If this was all a set-up (which is probably the case, as a domain for a tribute website was purchased a month before Bree started making videos), it's a really good one, and I'll be interested to see who takes credit (latest speculation is that it's group of actors looking to make it big). If not, then she's pretty freaking talented, and probably bound for hollywood. Either way, I still need a new hobby.