‘In the Bedroom,’ the 433rd episode of lonelygirl15, just broke the 50 million view mark on YouTube. The video is also currently number 13 on the all-time most viewed list for the Entertainment category and the 81st most viewed video of all time on YouTube.
Jonas (Jackson Davis) posted the video on March 7th, 2008, where it quickly racked up the views and continues to do so, averaging approximately 80,000 new views a day some two years after the conclusion of the series.
Granted much of those views can be attributed to the provocative title and enticing thumbnail (which the LG15 producers inserted as a flash frame into the exact center of the video – at the 1:26 mark – so YouTube would be sure to grab it). The image features a suggestive shot of Jennie (Melanie Merkosky) in bed. Also, the video contains one of the series’ more memorable surprises as well as an important plot point.
In a time when most web series are lucky to gain 5,000 views, the fact that a single episode of a series has reached the upper echelons of popularity on YouTube should inspire fellow web series producers. If nothing else, it clearly demonstrates the importance of a good image to entice clicks. After all, breasts evolved for thumbnails.
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And there’s nothing wrong with that! :)
ah, the good old in the bedroom, one of a number of latter lg15 videos (all from 2008) that got huge views. none of bree’s vids ever approached these numbers.
Just for the record, they are real and they are spectacular!
Who plays the creeper in the closet?
@milo
Bree had a couple of videos break the million mark, with her most viewed being My First Kiss, which is only a couple million behind Girl Tied Up. Also, there is a 37 million view gap between In the Bedroom and the next highest Girl Tied Up, which just goes to show what a run away smash In the Bedroom has become.
@The Boss
The Shadow was played by Tom Snyder. He only appeared in five episodes, because, you know, he was smart enough to sneak into the house undetected but not smart enough to look both ways when crossing the street.
the underlying campiness of this phase of the show was underappreciated at the time.
I waited intentionally until this was off the front page to comment.
The video [i]My First Kiss[/i] has over 11 million views. The stark difference between that and [i]In the Bedroom[/i] can be easily shown in the YT comments. Nearly every comment on the latter video is negative and references how the viewer was somehow tricked into watching. Conversely, the comments on the former seem evidence of some other emotion.
The first is art. The second is not.