On This Day In LG15 History: Following The Helper (Oct. 15, 2006)

For today's installment of useless lonelygirl15 facts in my brain that no one will comment about:

Two years ago today, on October 15, 2006, Daniel posted the video "Following The Helper."



Although it has racked up only 246,161 views on YouTube to date, this was a heavily discussed video at the time, spawning a 48-page thread on the official forums, becoming the "most viewed" video thread ever. (Source: LG15 Bebo Quiz #4, Question 1).

The video is notable for recording the first illegal act (breaking and entering) committed by Daniel. While gunplay and violence became much more common in Seasons 2 and 3 of Lonelygirl15, fans of Bree were a bit shocked at the time to see Daniel commit this act and then post proof online, as memorialized in the TWJaniak's fan response video, What Were You Thinking?.

Following The Helper was also a key video for future plot development, because Daniel found Google maps of five locations on Lucy's computer: Zavalla, Texas; Wickenburg, Arizona; Topanga, California; La Crete, Alberta; and Adak Island, Alaska. These locations recurred to varying degrees throughout the lonelygirl15 story, most notably as Zavalla became the home of future characters Sarah, Taylor, and Jules, and a burial ground for Elders.



A minor amusing error in this video occurs when Daniel is looking at Lucy's computer. You can briefly see that the time is 4:01pm on Thursday, October 12, putting Daniel there BEFORE the ceremony actually occurred. Clearly this is simply when the video was filmed, revealing only a three day lag between filming and posting at the time.

The video also quickly reveals that the pictures Daniel sees of himself at the Ceremony reside in a file folder path marked "Greg Goodfried". This was taken as evidence by fans that Amanda Goodfried must indeed be playing the role of Lucy (something not yet known), and that the video must have been filmed at the Goodfrieds apartment.

* LGPedia on Following The Helper

* LG15.com forum thread on Following The Helper

* Anchor Cove discussion thread for Following The Helper