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'''Bukanator''' was an early fan on YouTube who started LonelyGirl's first fan site, www.lonelygirl15.com[http://www.lonelygirl15.com].
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#REDIRECT [[Grant Steinfeld]]
 
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He was supposed to appear like a regular fan, however when it was discovered this "fan site" was actually created a month before Bree started her vlogs Bukanator quickly found himself at the eye of a storm of suspicion. To cover his tracks, Bukanator claimed that Daniel had actually registered the website as a joke (reasons for this have been given as either because Daniel told Bree if she ever started blogging he bet she'd become famous and would need a fan site, or that Daniel registered the site because Bree bragged if she were to ever upload vblogs to youtube she'd become famous). While Daniel had registered lonelygirl15.com, but had no plan of using it, so the story went that Bukanator e-mailed him asking permission to make a fan site and Daniel handed the already registered one over to Bukanator.
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Bukanator claimed to be a Web designer with an interest in photography. Under his watch, lonelygirl15.com remained almost completely stagnant. He would upload the videos, but with virtually no promotion of the site or its forum (which were silent) almost no one ever went to it. Finally a few core fans began talking at the forums and eventually a community was built up there, though none of this had anything to do with actions on Bukanator's part. In fact he was widely criticized by the fans at the forum for being a poor moderator. They made many pleas for improvements to the site and especially the forum, and despite the occassional promise he'd do something about it Bukanator never actually did anything. Frustration with his site eventually led a group of fans to create and move to an alternate fan site, [[The Children of Anchor Cove]], and virtually all forum members joined it, leaving the official forum near silent once again.
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In reality, Bukanator was originally Bay Area software engineer [[Grant Steinfeld]]. Candace Murphy of ''Inside Bay Area'' news reported that Steinfeld was frozen out of the project, and the account was taken over by others.  Steinfeld was reportedly frustrated by being removed from the project and went to several media outlets with his story. Once he was out of the project, the Creators took over management of the site themselves and soon replaced the old forum with a new one, tailored to fit many of the fans requests.
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==References==
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[http://www.insidebayarea.com/columnists/candacemurphy/ci_4426700 Candace Murphy, insidebayarea.com]
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[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/technology/13lonely.html?ex=1159848000&en=3d6e55969951817a&ei=5070 Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times]
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[[Category:Cast and crew]]
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