Ten years ago, the lonelygirl15 video blog series debuted on YouTube with a 1:35-minute clip of a teenage girl introducing herself to the webcam. The series quickly became hugely popular, but suspicious fans soon launched a fervent effort to find out if the series was real or a hoax. We head back to the early days of YouTube with one of the website's earliest sensations.

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