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YouTube uses keywords called "tags" to assist in categorizing its videos. Many LG15 videos have tags attached to them that are seemingly irrelevant to the content of the videos themselves.

Aye-aye

"The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche of a woodpecker. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unique method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its elongated middle finger to pull the grubs out." - Wikipedia

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Speculation

Aye-ayes are endangered.

Aye-ayes are said to bring bad luck.

Aye-ayes are nocturnal and arboreal. This could be a reference to Bree climbing down the tree at night to sneak out to the park.

Barnacle

A barnacle is a sea dwelling coral, often making its home on the bottom of ships.

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Bastirma

"Pastırma is a highly seasoned, air-dried cured beef in the cuisines of the former Ottoman countries. The name pastırma is Turkish and means 'pressed'; it is used with minor variants in the various languages of the region: Albanian pastërma; Armenian բաստուրմա (basturma), Azeri bastırma; Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian pastrma; Bulgarian pasturma; Greek παστουρμάς pastourmás or παστρουμάς pastroumás; Romanian pastramă." - Wikipedia

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Speculation

Along with other clues this is believed to point towards the Middle East, specifically Egypt.

Bug

"Bug can mean many things:" - Wikipedia

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Speculation

May be connected to the two aphid appearances or this may refer to Bree bugging Daniel about what her dad talked to him about. The tag bug follows the tag annoying.

Campylobacter

"Campylobacter is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria. Motile, with either uni- or bi-polar flagella, the organisms have a somwhat curved, rod-like appearance, and are oxidase-positive. At least a dozen species of Campylobacter have been implicated in human disease, with C. jejuni and C. coli the most common.[1] C. fetus is a cause of spontaneous abortions in cattle and sheep, as well as an opportunisitic pathogen in humans." - Wikipedia

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Campylobacter cause gastroenteritis, which makes one sick to one's stomach. Bree might be saying that disobeying her parents makes her feel a little ill.

Cephalopod

"The cephalopods (Greek plural Κεφαλόποδα (kephalópoda); "head-foot") are the mollusk class Cephalopoda characterized by bilateral body symmetry, a prominent head, and a modification of the mollusk foot, a muscular hydrostat, into the form of arms or tentacles. Teuthology, a branch of malacology, is the study of cephalopods." - Wikipedia

For fun checkout the Vampire Squid.

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May be reference to Elder God CthulhuCthulhu AKA "Francis".

See also: H.P. Lovecraft

Chartreuse

Chartreuse may refer to:

  • Chartreuse (color), a color between green-yellow and yellow
  • Chartreuse (liqueur), an aromatic brand of liqueur produced by the Carthusian monks in the Chartreuse monastery at Grenoble, France, and at one time at Tarragona, Spain. Usually yellow or green in coloring. Often flavoured with orange peel, pepermint, or hyssop.
  • The Chartreuse Mountains north of Grenoble, France
  • The Grande Chartreuse, a Carthusian monastery in the Chartreuse mountains

See:

- Wikipedia

- dictionary.reference.com

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None thusfar? Although the cermenony could take place in the Chartreuse places mentioned or Bree could have been given Chartreuse liquer to help her trait negative.

Chipmunk

"Chipmunk is the common name for any small squirrel-like rodent species of the genus Tamias in the family Sciuridae. About 23 species fall under this title, with one species in northeastern Asia, one in the eastern portions of Canada and the US, and the rest native to the western part of North America. The name may have originally been spelled "chitmunk" (perhaps from the Ojibwe word ajidamoo, meaning "red squirrel"). However, the earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary (from 1842) is "chipmonk". Other early forms include "chipmuck" and "chipminck", and in the 1830s they were also referred to as "chip squirrels", possibly in reference to the sound they make. They are also called striped squirrel or ground squirrel; however, the name "ground squirrel" is more usually kept for the genus Spermophilus, though Tamias and Spermophilus are only two of the 13 genera of ground-living sciurids." - Wikipedia

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Although squirrel also makes a strange tag appearance.

Evolution

"In biology, evolution is the change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations, as determined by shifts in the allele frequencies of genes. Over time, this process can result in speciation, the development of new species from existing ones. All contemporary organisms are related to each other through common descent, the products of cumulative evolutionary changes over billions of years. Evolution is the source of the vast biodiversity on Earth, including the many extinct species attested in the fossil record." - Wikipedia

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It's possible that this tag is misidentified as a "strange tag", as the video "Proving Science Wrong!" has numerous science-related tags that are indirectly related to the subject of the video rather than directly.

Fierce

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A lot of teens use the word 'fierce' to mean awesome, as in, "It's so fierce my parents let us go hiking!" It could be misidentified.

Genghiskhan

"Genghis Khan (c. 1162–August 18, 1227) was a Mongol political and military leader or Khan (posthumously Khagan) who united the Mongol tribes and founded the Mongol Empire, (1206–1368), the largest contiguous empire in world history. Born Temüjin in the Borjigin family, he forged a powerful army based on meritocracy to become one of the most successful military leaders in history." - Wikipedia

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Hamster

"A hamster is a rodent belonging to subfamily Cricetinae. The subfamily contains about 18 species, classified in six or seven genera. A majority of them have expandable cheek pouches, which reach from their cheeks to their shoulders. Because they are easy to keep and breed in captivity, hamsters are often used as lab animals and pets." - WikipediaProper entry.

Additionally hamster is a strange tag that appears in multiple LG15 videos.

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Speculation

  • Discussion on the LG15 forum relates this and other strange tags to cannibalism.
  • Because mice are run through a maze, coerced into going certain ways, it is possible that there is a correlation between the videos' content and coercion. This theory has not been fully investigated.
  • Also because hamsters can easily be used for breeding and expirements, there is a theory that this symbolises what is going on in the LG world.

Kiwi

Can refer to either a flightless bird, a fruit or a nickname for New Zealanders.

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Bree has previously lived in New Zealand, and might thus consider herself a "kiwi". See speculation on Hamster.

Langosta

Spanish for Lobster

"Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans. Lobsters are an economically important type of seafood, the basis of a global industry that nets US$1.8 billion in trade annually." - Wikipedia

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Lepton

"In physics, a lepton is a particle with spin, 1/2 (a fermion) that does not experience the strong nuclear force. The leptons form a family of elementary particles that are distinct from the other known family of fermions, the quarks." - Wikipedia

See also Wikipedia's disambiguation for other definitions.

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Llama

"The llama (Lama glama) is a large camelid that originated in North America and then later on moved on to South America. The term llama is sometimes used more broadly, to indicate any of the four closely related animals that make up the South American branch of the family Camelidae: the true llama, the vicuña, alpaca, and guanaco. They were used as a system of transportation for the Incas." - Wikipedia

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Mercury

Mercury refers to a number of things including but not limited to a roman god, an element, a planet, a plant and the standard unit of measurment (inches of mercury) for barometric pressure.

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Ocelot

"The ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), also known as painted leopard or tigrillo, is a wild cat distributed over South and Central America and Mexico, but has been reported as far north as Texas and in Trinidad, in the Caribbean. It can be up to 100 cm (3'2") in length, plus 45 cm (1'6") tail length, and weighs 10-15 kg (about 20-33 pounds). While similar in appearance to the oncilla and the margay, who inhabit the same region, the ocelot is larger." - Wikipedia

The ocelot is an endangered species that was hunted to near extinction for its fur.

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Peanuts

"Peanut or Peanuts may refer to:

  • Peanut (Arachis hypogaea), a species in the pea family Fabaceae native to South America.
  • Peanuts, a syndicated daily comic strip written and drawn by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.
  • The Peanut, a neighbourhood in northeastern Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Mr. Peanut, the advertising logo and mascot of Planters, an American snack-food company.
  • Peanuts (game), a form of double solitaire
  • The Peanuts, a Japanese singing duo.
  • Peanut, (Fictional Character) who is Harvey Birdman's Assistant in the Adult Swim show, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law,
  • Foam peanuts, also known as packing peanuts, a common loose-fill packing material used to prevent damage to fragile objects during shipping.
  • Nick Baines, one of the Kaiser Chiefs.
  • Peanut the woozle, one of the best-known puppets used by comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham in his act."

- Wikipedia

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Pelican

"A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae. Along with the darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies, frigatebirds, and tropicbirds, it makes up the order Pelecaniformes. Like other birds in that group, pelicans have all four toes webbed (they are totipalmate). Modern pelicans are found on all continents except Antarctica. They are birds of inland and coastal waters and are absent from polar regions, the deep ocean, oceanic islands, and inland South America." - Wikipedia

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None thusfar? However, symbolism is included below.

Symbolism

"In medieval Europe, the pelican was thought to be particularly attentive to her young, to the point of providing her own blood when no other food was available. As a result, the pelican became a symbol of the Passion of Jesus and of the Eucharist. It also became a symbol in bestiaries for self-sacrifice, and was used in heraldry ("a pelican in her piety" or "a pelican vulning (wounding) herself"). Another version of this is that the Pelican used to kill its young and then resurrect them with its blood, this being analogous to the sacrifice of Jesus.

This legend may have arisen because the pelican used to suffer from a disease that left a red mark on its chest[citation needed]. Alternatively it may be that pelicans look as if they are doing that as they often press their bill into their chest to fully empty their pouch.- Wikipedia

Penguin

A flightless waterfowl that lives in the colder regions of the Southern Hemisphere.

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Phylum

"Phylum (plural: phyla) is a taxon used in the scientific classification of life. "Phyla" is adopted from the Greek phylai the clan-based voting groups in Greek city-states. Phyla represent the largest generally accepted groupings of animals and other living things with certain evolutionary traits, although the phyla themselves may sometimes be grouped into superphyla (e.g. Ecdysozoa with eight phyla, including arthropods and roundworms; and Deuterostomia with the echinoderms, chordates, hemichordates and arrow worms). Informally, phyla can be thought of as grouping animals based on general body plan[1], e.g., having bones vs. having an exoskeleton. This is morphological grouping. But despite the seemingly different external appearances of organisms, they are classified into phyla based on their internal organizations[2]. For example, though seemingly divergent, spiders and crabs both belong to Arthropoda, whereas earthworms and tapeworms, similar in shape, are from Annelida and Platyhelminthes, respectively. Although the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature allows the use of the term "Phylum" in reference to plants, the term "Division" is almost always used by botanists." - Wikipedia

Also has a linguistic meaning which is similar to the biological meaning but refers to the classification of languages.

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Phytoplankton

"Phytoplankton are the autotrophic component of the plankton that drift in the water column. The name comes from the Greek terms, phyton or "plant" and πλαγκτος ("planktos"), meaning "wanderer" or "drifter" (Thurman, 1997). Most phytoplankton are too small to be individually seen with the unaided eye. However, when present in high enough numbers, they may appear as a green discoloration of the water due to the presence of chlorophyll within their cells (although the actual color may vary with the species of phytoplankton present)." - Wikipedia

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May refer to the red sea which is colored by phytoplankton although this conclusion is reached via Cassieiswatching clues.

Pirana

"The piranhas or pirañas are a group of carnivorous freshwater fish living in South American rivers. They belong to five genera of the subfamily of Serrasalminae (which also includes closely related herbivorous fish including pacus and silver dollars). They are normally about 15 to 25 cm long (6 to 10 inches), although reportedly individuals have been found up to 40 cm in length. They are known for their sharp teeth (able to bite through a steel fishing hook or bite off a man's finger) and an aggressive appetite for meat and flesh. Locals use their teeth in tools and weapons. They are normally found only in the Amazonian, Guianas and Paraguayan river systems. However, piranha (most likely former aquarium-dwellers) are also occasionally found in the Potomac River, but they typically do not survive the cold winters of that region." - Wikipedia

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This tag, in conjunction with several others, is related to cannibalism.

Platypus

"The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a 39–60 cm long, semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia and Tasmania, and one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young (the other four are echidnas). It is the sole extant representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of fossilised relatives have been found, some of them also in the Ornithorhynchus genus.

This egg-laying, duck-billed mammal whose males have a venomous spur on the hind foot, baffled naturalists when it was first discovered. The uniqueness of the platypus makes it a recognizable symbol of Australia (along with the kangaroo and koala); it is featured on the reverse of the Australian 20-cent coin." - Wikipedia

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Puppy

"A puppy is a juvenile dog, generally less than one year of age. The term is sometimes abbreviated to pup, and in that form is used for the young of some other animals, such as the wolf." - Wikipedia

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Sable

"The sable (Martes zibellina) is a small mammal, closely akin to the martens, living in northern Asia from the Ural Mountains through Siberia and Mongolia to Hokkaido in Japan. Its range in the wild originally extended through European Russia to Poland and Scandinavia. It has achieved fame for its fur, which is integrated into various clothes fashions (for example the shtreimel). Sables range in color from tan to black, black being the most prized." - Wikipedia

Sable also is a noun for the colour black along with being an adjective to describe extreme dark or black. Sables are mourning clothes.

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Sables are hunted for their fur like the ocelot.

In heraldry, sable means black and can refer to Saturday. It could be a reference to the party being on Saturday night.

Scimitar

"A scimitar is a sword with a curved blade of a design finding its origins in western Asia (Middle East).

The name can be used to refer to almost any Arabian sword with a curved blade. The word "scimitar" is possibly a derivative from the Persian shamshir." - Wikipedia

See also Wikipedia's disambiguation page for alternate meanings.

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Along with few other tags, this is believed to direct us toward Egypt.

Squirrel

"Squirrel is the common name for rodents of the family Sciuridae (from Greek skia "shadow" and oura "tail"; "tail that casts a shadow"). In everyday speech in the English-speaking world, it usually refers to members of the genera Sciurus and Tamiasciurus. These typical members of the family are tree squirrels with large bushy tails, and are indigenous to Europe, Asia and the Americas. Similar genera are found in Africa. However, the Sciuridae also include flying squirrels, and ground squirrels such as the chipmunks, prairie dogs, and woodchucks. The unrelated family Anomaluridae also have "squirrel" in their common name, though they are usually referred to as "scaly-tailed flying squirrels". The word squirrel comes from the Old French esqurial, which itself comes from the Vulgar Latin word scuriolus (squirrel). The pronunciation of this animal's name varies. The British way uses a short "i". The American way rhymes with "curl"." - Wikipedia

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Chipmunk has also made a strange tag appearance.

Also, the tag "squirrel" may be a reference to the game Gemma taught Bree when she lived in England, seen in the video "Nut Kills Man".

Tachyon

"A tachyon (from the Greek ταχύς takhús, meaning "swift, fast") is any hypothetical particle that travels at superluminal velocity. The first description of tachyons is attributed to German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, but it was George Sudarshan[1][2] and Gerald Feinberg[3] (who originally coined the term) in the 1960s who advanced a theoretical framework for their study. Tachyons have recurred in a variety of contexts, such as string theory. In the language of special relativity, a tachyon is a particle with space-like four-momentum and imaginary proper time. A tachyon is constrained to the space-like portion of the energy-momentum graph. Therefore, it can never slow to light speed or below." - Wikipedia

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Tachyon is the enemy of OpAphid (whose name was also derived from a strange tag).

Walruses

"Walruses (from Dutch: wal meaning "shore", and r(e)us meaning "giant") are large semi-aquatic mammals that live in the cold Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. Two subspecies exist: the Atlantic, Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus, and the Pacific, Odobenus rosmarus divergens. The Pacific walrus is slightly larger, the male weighing up to 1,800 kg (4,000 lb), but usually males only top out at 1,600 kg (3,500 lb). The walrus should not be confused with the elephant seal." - Wikipedia

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Not being from Antartica makes this tag stand out but may be a simple error in research.