105: TikTok, Cults, & Conspiracies (w/Abbie Richards)
Conspirituality
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Lonely Girl 15
Lonely girl 15 became the most subscribed to channel on utub and journalists got involved in the hunt to find out who she really was. By the time, the channel was exposed as an entirely scripted show featuring a 19 year old actress from new zealand named jessica lee rose. Hundreds of thousands were following the string of videos that had been posted every few days for a couple months. The entire series would end up garn ing over 60 million views with the story climaxing and brie sacrificing herself.
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