Lonely Girl shows the way

Wired’s article on “The Secret World of Lonely Girl” is wholly illuminating and offers one inescapable conclusion: there are no more barriers to reaching millions of people on an amateur’s budget. The Internet, and specifically YouTube, has happened and now no one is safe from the amateurs! I mean this in the best possible way since I consider myself to be such an amateur. Lonely Girl’s story is a play-by-play for amateur video producers, complete with tips on how to get noticed at the start by piggy-backing on another video blogger’s videos, on what people really want to watch, and on how to get viewers to keep watching even after it’s revealed that you’re not really a rebellious teenage girl searching for answers. How do you create the “Lost” of the internet? Lonely Girl shows the way.