"LonelyGirl, aka a.k.a. “Bree,” presented herself as a home-schooled California high schooler with strict, religious parents. If only, it was left to the imagination of computer geeks the world over, a sensitive boy could take her away from all of that.

Given that a photo of Satanist Aleister Crowley also occupied her bedroom, some were led to think she was more complicated than she first appeared. Some speculated she may have been promoting a movie in the vein of “Blair Witch Project,” especially after an E-mail from her was traced to Hollywood’s giant dealmaker Creative Artists Agency.

Others, noting the quality of lighting and editing, the careful avoidance of mainstream (copyrighted) music and the fact that her Web site had been registered before the first video went up, figured she was some kind of hoaxer. They even observed that, when she yawned, she had wisdom teeth, unusual for a 16-year-old...

This week, however, the enigma code was broken, and LonelyGirl was revealed to be Jessica Rose, a New Zealand native living in the Los Angeles area, probably in her late teens. " (19 I read elsewhere)