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I'm Gavi, I'm 16
I'm Shayna, I'm 14
I'm Shaina, and I'm 15.
[Gavi] And basically I got everyone obsessed with Lizzie Bennet
[Gavi] Because my sister told me about it
[Gavi] In the beginning I was like 'Oh, it's okay'
[Gavi] And then, I kept - I skipped to the end
[Gavi] Not to the total end, to like in the middle
[Gavi] And I got really into it and I went back to the beginning
[Gavi] and watched everything
[Gavi] And then I got other people obsessed with it
[Shayna] I really like it
[Shayna] It's really really interesting
[Shayna] And it seems really real
[Shaina] So, I watched them all in one day
[Shaina] Because my cousin told me about them
[Shaina] and I got so obsessed with them
[Shaina] So I just watched them straight
[Shaina] And they were so good
[Shaina] And she really makes it really realistic
[Shaina] Like I asked my cousin - I asked Gavi in the middle
[Shaina] If they were - for real
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a modernized Pride and Prejudice told in vlog format by Lizzie Bennet
[Lizzie] My name is Lizzie Bennet and this is my life
Lizzie has two sisters -Lydia
[Lydia] And you've got the Ly-dee-ah
[Lydia] Take a minute. Enjoy the awesome. And the adorbs!
And Jane. [Jane] Hi, it's so good to see you
[Jane] Not that I can actually see you or anything
[Jane] Since I'm on the internet and you're sitting at home
[Charlotte] My name is Charlotte Lu and
And a best friend, Charlotte, who often appear in her videos
[Jane] Hi, I'm Jane.
[Charlotte] And Lizzie Bennet is in denial
Anyone who is familiar with Pride and Prejudice
will recognize the other characters that we see, slightly disguised
Bing Lee (Bingley) and his sister Caroline
William Darcy
Fitz Williams
Gigi Darcy
George Wickham, Ricky Collins
as well as cameos, via costume theater
of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Catherine DeBourgh, etc.
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a transmedia project
In addition to Lizzie's videos, there are several spinoff channels that you can follow
Some with Maria Lu, Charlotte's sister
[Maria] Is this going to be the official Collins and Collins vlog?
[Charlotte] No. Think of this as a test run
[Maria] Test run?
[Charlotte] You were talking my ear off about something all the way into the office this morning, how about that?
[Maria] You mean the new season of Dr. Who?
[Charlotte] Sure, that
[Maria] Oh my G-d, Oh my G-d, Oh my G-d, Oh my G-d
[Maria] Okay Okay Okay
[Maria] Dinosaurs on a spaceship
[Maria] A spaceship.
With Lydia
[Lydia] I can't believe my parents are making me stay with my weirdo relatives in the middle of nowhere
[Lydia] While our house gets remodeled
[Mary] Right here.
[Lydia] That's Mary. She's my cousin who likes things like reading, and darkness, and having no facial expressions
And with Darcy's sister, Gigi
[Gigi] My name is Gigi Darcy and welcome to Pemberly Digital's brand new video portal
[Gigi] Over the next few weeks, I'm excited to be given the opportunity to show you
[Gigi] a proprietary story and communications application from the Pemberly Digital lab
The characters also have twitter accounts
facebook pages, tumblr accounts
Mr. Collins has a LinkedIn page
Jane, who works in fashion, has a LookBook and a Pinterest page, etc.
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries also deals with important issues
and can be a great way to open conversation among teens
and between teens and their parents about
for example: friendship, relationships, judging others, family, etc.
There's a huge fandom related to the LBD
including YouTube fanvideos
gifs, and tumblr blogs dedicated to, or heavily featuring the LBD
fanfiction, fan twitter accounts and facebook pages and more
Some people loved Pride and Prejudice
Some hated it
With all of the creativity, and the gifs and drawings etc
But the adaptation appealed to a lot of people
It's kind of like a black hole of wonderful on tumblr, if you know what I mean by that
There's just so much
Teens and young adults are the primary audience
As Bernie Su, the head writer on the LBD says,
"The LBD currently hits at a demographic consisting of 90% female, and 70% females under 25
In fact, many teens have tumblr blogs dedicated to, or heavily focused on, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Because Hank Green is the primary mastermind behind the Lizzie Bennet Diaries
it's closely associated with nerdfighteria
and claimed a lot of early fans that way
[Hank] I wanted to do something that no one had ever done before
[Hank] an adaptation in online video
[Hank] taking a previous work and transffering it into this new media
[Hank] There's not - I don't know of any examples of this happening
[Hank] I wanted something that was a great story that I love
[Hank] and I wanted to make this kind of something that my wife would really enjoy
[Hank] and I wanted something that was very dialogue based
[Hank] and very character based
[Hank] so that we could do it not as a big production
[Hank] with lots of sets and scenes and everything
[Hank] but just as a person talking to a camera
[Hank] It's a work of fiction adapted into a video blog
[Hank] The work of fiction that we chose was Pride and Prejudice
[Hank] because, you know, it's the best story of all time
There are different selling points of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Lydia's story, the romances, the transmedia coolness...
Here's what some teens say:
After 100 Lizzie episodes,
7 Maria Lu episodes
29 Lydia episodes,
6 Gigi episodes, 2 episodes of Better Living with Collins and Collins
countless tweets, innumerable fanvideos and gifs and art, the LBD is over
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