I didn’t know there was a scriptwriting feature on filmjunk how cool,,thanks I will be reading and posting,,,that was a warning!

1 – youtube refreshes its view counts at weird intervals, which is why there are massive spikes between things.

number 2 – i simply went to her youtube page and found anything but a 20,000 mark level viewcount

300,000 – 800,000 hits on average it seems.
considering that some of the major videos considered viral during the last election cycle (ie. Hillary CLinton’s Bosnia Trip) got around that amount, I’d say she’s doing well enough.

In fact, just to prove my point, in your article you have a screen capture for her report on 01-16-09. The following week, on 01-23-09, the number of viewers who checked her out barely crossed the 16,000 mark. So to label that an “Internet phenomenon” would be rather smirk-inducing.

Not to mention, you left out the part that what she reads is cobbled together and swiped from existing online screenwriting resources, from people who actually did the hard work, and even then she still presents old and dated news. So, for trying to be an online reporter, Script Girl fails at doing the most basic thing in any journalistic endeavor: resourcing a story and its details herself.

The bottom line: Script Girl’s reports are fairly valueless and only known for TWO things, both of which she routinely thrusts out at the camera week after week desperately hoping to get some attention for herself.

She seems like a geniunely nice, and mildly funny person. But “Joe Smith signed a contract to write a movie about something no ones ever heard of for a studio no one cares about and it might come out in 5 years” is not news. /yawn.

Internet phenom? no, not quite.

Watch her weekly reports for sure, but also hunt down her outtake reels–lots of fun to be had there, too.

Go, ScriptGirl.

“D”

xoSG