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| − | The '''Phorum 3''', as they are sometimes called, were three members of the original Lonelygirl15.com [[Phorum]] message board who decided to track down the creators behind the project by capturing their IP addresses. The plan was hatched on or about August 28, 2006 and led by phorum member "Jessica". Originally consisting of six phorum members, the group quickly narrowed to Jessica, SharpDressedMan, and a third unidentified phorum member. | + | The '''Phorum 3''', as they are sometimes called, were three members of the original Lonelygirl15.com [[Phorum]] message board who decided to track down the creators behind the project by capturing their IP addresses. The plan was hatched on or about August 28, 2006 and led by phorum member "Jessica". Originally consisting of six phorum members, the group quickly narrowed to [[Jessica]], [[SharpDressedMan]], and a third unidentified phorum member. |
The preliminary results of their search resulted in a long post from Jessica at the phorum on August 30, 2006 titled "All Road (Don't) Lead to Rome" which pointed to "San Mateo - Mountain View" California as Bree's likely location and suggested that YouTube, which is based in San Mateo, was responsible. While the Silicon Valley hypothesis later turned out to be incorrect, the California link lined up with prior posts on the phorum suggesting that fauna in the [[My Parents... Let Us Go Hiking!!!|Hiking]] and [[Swimming!|Swimming]] videos pointed to California as the filming location. | The preliminary results of their search resulted in a long post from Jessica at the phorum on August 30, 2006 titled "All Road (Don't) Lead to Rome" which pointed to "San Mateo - Mountain View" California as Bree's likely location and suggested that YouTube, which is based in San Mateo, was responsible. While the Silicon Valley hypothesis later turned out to be incorrect, the California link lined up with prior posts on the phorum suggesting that fauna in the [[My Parents... Let Us Go Hiking!!!|Hiking]] and [[Swimming!|Swimming]] videos pointed to California as the filming location. | ||
Revision as of 03:57, 12 October 2006
The Phorum 3, as they are sometimes called, were three members of the original Lonelygirl15.com Phorum message board who decided to track down the creators behind the project by capturing their IP addresses. The plan was hatched on or about August 28, 2006 and led by phorum member "Jessica". Originally consisting of six phorum members, the group quickly narrowed to Jessica, SharpDressedMan, and a third unidentified phorum member.
The preliminary results of their search resulted in a long post from Jessica at the phorum on August 30, 2006 titled "All Road (Don't) Lead to Rome" which pointed to "San Mateo - Mountain View" California as Bree's likely location and suggested that YouTube, which is based in San Mateo, was responsible. While the Silicon Valley hypothesis later turned out to be incorrect, the California link lined up with prior posts on the phorum suggesting that fauna in the Hiking and Swimming videos pointed to California as the filming location.
The Phorum3 went to Richard Rushfield at the LATimes with their subsequent new findings, which traced messages sent from Bree directly to the private server of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Beverly Hills, California. On the evening of September 7, 2006, the LATimes published these findings, as CAA did not deny a link to LG15. The story was published widely and picked up by the Associated Press.
Once Bree was identifed as Jessica Lee Rose in articles first published in the LATimes and NYTimes on the evening of September 12, 2006, speculation ran rampant that Jessica of the Phorum3, whose full identify was never disclosed by Rushfield, was actually Jessica Lee Rose. They are not the same person.
