What kind of a sucker do you take me for?

Lonelygirl15 doesn't seem to be a fluke, in the sense that many other vlogs are posted by ambiguously "real" personalities. Its impossible to tell to what degree people are putting on an act. Perhaps part of what keeps viewers coming back to such videos is the game of trying to figure out who the poster REALLY is - a bit like the pleasure of watching a mystery. They watch the videos, look for cracks in the facade, and try to figure out the motives of the poster. Its not a black-and-white "are they confessing or are they acting" question, but rather - what aspects of the poster's persona are real, which ones are fake, and WHY is the poster being fake in that way. Presumably, they are being fake in that way to boost their ratings, or perhaps to feel superior to the viewers ("ha ha, I fooled you" type of thing). To try to figure out one of these could-be-real-could-be-fake vloggers is to try to understand how creators view their audiences. If they think they can fool us, how are they trying to fool us? Its a bit of a competition between creator and audience, and I don't see this game ending anytime soon.