LonelyGirl15 - ARG, Or Just Angsty?
This has been percolating round the blogosphere (eek!) in general, but ARGN has an excellent summary of possible 'alternate reality game' LonelyGirl15 - well, ARG, or prank, or advertising campaign, or something?
ARGN explains: "The white-hot spark of a YouTube user named LonelyGirl15 has set the dry timber of the summer internet community ablaze. Ostensibly the video blog of a teenaged American girl named Bree, the 23 videos posted so far have chronicled a budding romance with a boy named Daniel, but there's a twist: Bree's family is very religious, she is home-schooled, and she has pledged a "purity bond" with her father."
It generally gets odder from there on out, and there's been plenty of detailed speculation into the phenomenon, which isn't a 'video game', by any stretch of the imagination - but is a great example of interactive storytelling using the Internet, which is why we're linking to it - besides which we tend to cover ARGs, and this may yet be one. Or not.
Comments
Weird stuff happens in nowhere... Quirky too.
Posted by: g | September 3, 2006 4:40 AM
Man. Where's eveyone's common sense? That article explaining the whole thing acts like it isn't obvious within seconds of viewing the first video that it's postured.
I know "hot innocent girl hearts ugly geek" makes for some prime fantasy material, but get a grip, internet.
Posted by: Lizard | September 3, 2006 8:26 AM
I can't see anyone being so terribly cheezy without being paid well for it. It's hard for me to watch people embarrasing themselves, and this is hard to watch. That alone tells me all I need to know.
Posted by: d | September 3, 2006 8:32 PM
"She" just posted the video that will be the hook to the whole thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z23kVxwvzxM
Rather convienient timing with the ARGN article if I do say so myself.
Posted by: d | September 4, 2006 12:31 AM
ooow i wish.hahah
Posted by: Gdog | December 22, 2006 12:26 AM