lonelygirl15 is an interactive web-based video series, that takes place in the Breeniverse. It centers on the life of a fictional teenage girl named Bree, whose YouTube username is the eponymous "lonelygirl15". The series is presented through short, regularly updated videoblogs posted by the fictional characters. Lonelygirl15 came to international attention ostensibly as a real video blogger who achieved massive popularity on YouTube, a popular video sharing website, but was eventually outed by suspicious viewers as a hoax featuring a fictitious character played by American-New Zealand actress Jessica Rose.
A story in The New York Times entitled "'Lonely Girl' (and Friends) Just Wanted Movie Deal" revealed the series' creators: Ramesh Flinders, a screenwriter and filmmaker from Marin County, California, Miles Beckett, a surgical residency dropout turned filmmaker, and Greg Goodfried, a former attorney with Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, LLP.
The series, which began June 16, 2006, is still running, with new videos appearing regularly on YouTube, Revver, metacafe, LiveVideo, Veoh, Bebo, and MySpace.
A spin-off show, KateModern, premiered in July 2007 with a video featuring Kate's art on Bebo. While a separate series, KateModern and lonelygirl15 live in the same fictional universe. As of September 2007, the LG15 series have more than 70 million combined views.
Along with Amanda Goodfried, an attorney who worked with Creative Arts Agency (CAA), the creators of lonelygirl15 created LG15 Studios to produce original interactive content online.
niel: Alright, look. I opened up Bree's email and now all of a sudden there's some dude in black outside, and that means there must have been a worm or something in the email. [Daniel paces around his room] niel: I'm sorry, I have no choice now... I have to delete it. [Daniel presses some buttons, gets up, and sits on his bed]
