About this episode
When YouTube was barely a year old, the the site's users were gripped by the slowly unfolding tale of Bree, the sheltered, beautiful 16 year old girl whose parents kept her locked in her bedroom with no one but the internet and her only friend, Daniel, for company. As Bree's situation grew more dire, she became one of the first online obsessions, paving the way for hundreds of hoaxes to come. SOURCES https://www.youtube.com/@lonelygirl15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-m-JXcppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5S2Kdb8Io4&t=3s https://medium.com/@vocativ/the-strange-saga-of-lonelygirl15-an-oral-history-dd94687e9976 https://www.businessinsider.com/where-are-they-now-creators-of-lonelygirl15-turned-web-series-into-a-multi-million-dollar-company-2010-7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnjZzDeepE8 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/16/lonelygirl15-bree-video-blog-youtube https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-lonelygirl15-story.html https://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/how-the-secret-identity-of-lonelygirl15-was-found/ https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/154b603/how_did_people_of_the_2000s_fall_for_lonelygirl15/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.