Vlogging influences of lonelygirl15

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In lonelygirl15's first two videos (which predated her trademark vlogs by almost a month), she made references to a number of other vloggers who were popular at the time. Although this was largely a method to gain the attention of an audience already interested in vlogging, these vloggers also paved the way for the creation of popular vlogging-based internet serial (with its fictional nature not explicitly stated).

• Paytotheorderofofof vs. Dinosaur
• YouTubers Secret Language

Brookers, thewinekone, paytotheorderofofof2, FilthyWhore, and bowiechick, kaiserro11, scream0 are all either referenced are appear in the early comments to these videos.

Lonelygirl15's first vlog (need link) also included direct "shoutouts" to paytoorderofofof2 and thewinekone.

EmoKid21Ohio was likely also an early influence on, or cautionary tale, to Lonelygirl15. One of the 1st 25 channels "Bree" subscribed to, EmoKid21Ohio featured a vlogger who created a fictitious persona (in this case, a man in Britian pretending to be "emo kid" in Ohio), and drew huge attention for the time at YouTube in April 2006. Before April 2006 was over, however, EmoKid21Ohio's real identity, and the identity of his partner-in-vlogging, EmoGirl21, had been tracked down via myspace and exposed.

For ease of reference during construction -

• Brookers on YouTube

• thewinekone on YouTube
• scream0 on YouTube
• paytotherorderofofof2 on YouTube
• FilthyWhore on YouTube
• kaiserro11 on YouTube
• bowiechick on YouTube
• Wikipedia article on Vlog

• Internet Archive of most subscribed YouTube channels on May 17th, 2006

1. Smosh
2. Filthywhore
3. sexxiebebe23
4. schizoar
5. strawberrie
6. bowiechick
7. animextenshi
8. whiteflower
9. Brookers
10. MadV

4 of top 10 were used as LG tags.