Note from Anastasia: Monica was also a part of the Youth Talks podcast team and will be occasionally posting her thoughts on Ypulse beginning with her unhappiness at the current creative state of Lonelygirl15. From Monica's bio:

Monica is a sophomore in high school, turning 16 in March. Her hobbies include editing, filming, listening to music, and hanging out with friends. She likes to create Beatles music videos featuring herself acting out the lyrics in the song, and political anti-Bush music videos. She is a huge Beatles Fan, and mainly listens to 60’s and 70’s hippie rock music, but she also sometimes listens to present day singers like Regina Spektor.

Even though you might not hear much about her in the news these days, Lonelygirl15 is still the "Most Subscribed (Of all time)" on YouTube. I first found lonelygirl15 (a.k.a, LG15), last summer when I began to surf the net for the first time. I went to the "Most Viewed (Today)" section on YouTube and I saw one of her videos was #1. It seemed really interesting. Her name was Bree, she was homeschooled, practiced some weird religion, had overprotective parents, yet somehow she was allowed to have her friend who was a boy come over to her house and stay in her room with the door closed for hours.

The videos really became interesting and addictive when the world discovered she was a fake. I remember watching the news, and the YouTube posts "LG15 FAKE!" A lot of people were mad, others didn’t care. I kept on watching because I was curious to see if the blogs would stop, or keep on going. To my surprise, the LG15 blogs had exciting endings that kept you wondering what was going to happen. Even though I knew she was fake, I wanted to know what would happen to her. As LG15 began to get more and more publicity, they became more popular, "bigger than Jesus” as one commenter posted.

The LG15 people decided to move to www.lonelygirl15.com, where there is a “LGpedia” -- it’s like Wikipedia, but it’s all about LG15 blogs, characters, and recaps of what happened in each blog. Somehow, as time went on her videos seem stupid to me now. I just watched some of her latest posts, and they’re really boring, not only are they boring but they’re long, some are as long as four minutes! A four-minute blog about how one character feels about the other...and that’s it! All talk and no action!! What happened to the adventurous endings that kept you longing and constantly refreshing the page over and over for a new blog? It seems that the directors of LG15 have run out ideas...

Update from Anastasia: The L.A. Times, reg. required, is reporting there will be an "edgier" Lonelygirl spinoff on Bebo - "Lonelygirl15 Presents…KateModern," is the story of a LonelyGirl-esque 19-year-old British college student, her friends, and the mysterious dark forces that permeate their life (the same forces featured prominently in recent LonelyGirl episodes).

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