My research on the LonelyGirl15 phenomenon began very basically, look up the videos that she posted on youtube.com, watch them, and comment at will. However, what I came to find was much more complex than I was originally expecting. I found a video of the actor who played Lonely Girl or Bee and her interview on CNN which was interesting, I also stumbled upon quite a bit of negative reactionary from lots of (assumed) dedicated viewers who came to realize that the LG15 phenomenon was not truly organic. Comments like "thanks for wasting my time" and "Fake!!" were everywhere. I eventually did find the LG15 videos I was looking for originally which had some interesting commentary attached as well:
"You're Hot"
"You're not 16 or your friend Daniel would've done you on that bed already"
"fuck off"
I also found links to the LG15.com webside with updated "episodes" and info on the "series". Amongst the LG15 videos on youtube.com there were also mock videos posted of the series either making fun or praising, it was difficult to tell. Strange people.
I was surprised at the massive outcry of disappointment and anger of so many people when they discovered it was not real. I guess because it was not clearly "defined" as staged it was not "okay" that it turned out to be.
Mediums for an Interactive Narrative Online:
-Picture album or series of photos (click for next photo, leave comments, etc.)
-Adventure Games (Journey tells Narrative while viewer has to navigate the game to get the rest of the story) ex. addictinggames.com -- Sorority Panty Raid (Perverted and a little weird but good game if you like mazes, etc.)
My IDEAS for a narrative:
A Photo or series of photos or scenes with things to click on to navigate narrative, links, etc.
-American experience living with Aussies, or coming to Australia--Documentary type of narrative in which I document not my own life but the situation that the "American" that gets placed with my Aussie roommates gets put into every semester, video clips, photos, blogs, etc. or a Journal/photo/video documentary of living Aussie as an American.
-How people take photos -- what different people think is picture worthy, what they choose to capture and not to capture, etc. Could be interactive by showing a scene and having someone take a photo of what they find significant.
-Dream World--needs to be thought out further but I am picturing either different dreams I have had or different dreams that are popular with people or a narrative with different choices to be made by the viewer in order to form a dream that they have had or something of that sort, and find out the supposed meaning according to different sources at the end.
