Lonelygirl15 is a meme that has made its way from its birth on YouTube, to a stint on Revver, now apparently to MySpaceTV for its exclusive season finale. Here’s the background. The Lonelygirl saga began as almost all YouTube videos before it, as a girl in front of a webcam, talking about her day.

Boring? Yea, for the most part. However, over time people began to see that this girl had a life that seemed a little too “made for TV” to be real, and this time they were right.

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As it turns out, the Lonelygirl15 series was not the creation of a teenage girl with an unlikely life, but instead it was the brainchild of Greg Goodfried, Miles Beckett, and Mesh Flinders — videographers who tapped into the burgeoning market of interactive story telling.

Even after Lonelygirl was discovered to be a fake, the audience kept coming back. There is something about how closely the show “simulated” reality that made it worth watching. It’s like Hitchcock said, the secret to drama is that it’s like life but with the boring bits cut out.

Now, Lonelygirl is finishing off its first season. This twelve part season finale will be shown exclusively on MySpace this Friday, who fought long and hard for the rights to this program.

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This is just another sign of how far video on the web has come. More and more, videographers are finding that the social media space is the perfect platform for getting discovered and an even better platform for finding the eyeballs that are their bread and butter.

I am not a huge Lonelygirl fan, but I do want to know what you think of the idea. Either comment here or send me a message with your thoughts.

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