Lonelygirl15
Lonelygirl15  
Podcast: Hoax!
Published On: Mon Dec 08 2025
Description: 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. SOURCEShttps://www.youtube.com/@lonelygirl15https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-m-JXcppohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5S2Kdb8Io4&t=3shttps://medium.com/@vocativ/the-strange-saga-of-lonelygirl15-an-oral-history-dd94687e9976https://www.businessinsider.com/where-are-they-now-creators-of-lonelygirl15-turned-web-series-into-a-multi-million-dollar-company-2010-7https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnjZzDeepE8https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/16/lonelygirl15-bree-video-blog-youtubehttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-lonelygirl15-story.htmlhttps://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.