The Alternate Reality Gaming Network wonders if YouTube's lonelygirl15 is the innocent video diarist that she appears to be:

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. Even stranger is the fact that Bree's religion is never named, and in fact on various comments on YouTube she has said that it is not mainstream - "We're not Christian or Buddhist or Hindu or anything like that." There's also a mysterious picture of famous occultist Aleister Crowley on Bree's bedroom wall, above a candelabra which she's vehement that Daniel not light. And wait - that Crowley picture is new - it used to be something else (could that possibly bear a resemblance to Baphomet?) A dark twist, indeed.

In a blog post, filmmaker Brian Flemming identifies the moment where he thinks the creators ineptly gave the game away, and analyzes the series' faults as a creative endeavor. However, ARGN says that Flemming himself is suspected by some to be the puppetmaster. Flemming denies this in a later post.


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