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90 day jane - suicide countdown on blogger/youtube

shecky

shecky

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just caught this:

http://webvideoreport.com/news/#000577

“I am going to kill myself in 90 days,” Jane says. The anonymous blogger is keeping a record of her intended last 90 (as of today 83) days of existence. Although 90 Day Jane claims that she is neither depressed nor seeking attention, she has already caught the eye of a “HUGE” network that wants to talk to her “very soon.” Given the success of viral marketing campaigns, many doubt the legitimacy of Jane’s claims and expect the whole scheme to be a girl’s three-month attempt at her own 15 minutes of fame. Below is video of Day 86, in which Jane goes suicide dress shopping.
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i guess youtube and blogger has pulled her content already. blogspot has her blog now:

http://90-day-jane.blogspot.com/

discuss.

EDIT: apparently, this was an "art project."
 
Some people will do anything to be on the news. The sad thing is that there will probably be a lot of disappointed viewers if she doesn't go through with it in the end...
 
Neither depressed nor seeking attention.

I call BS. If you're not seeking attention, then you don't post it on the internet. If you're not depressed, you don't commit suicide! (Well, I suppose you could be just plain nuts, not necessarily depressed.)
 
lame - pop-ups on site

Just went to check it out and got hit with an attempt to download a new version of ActiveX and pop'ed up link to my-nude-girl.com

Stay away...
-r
 
Can we buy tickets to the suicide?

When somebody pulls a stunt like this, disappointed fans are all she will leave.
 
Counterfit said:
Perhaps that's the reason?
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Everyone's an individual, and whether that's the reason she wants to do it or not, does not matter to me. I'm just a part of the viewing public.

I'd feel quite disappointed if she didn't pull a Wile E. Coyote on us and pancake herself.
 
.Andy said:
Is there a dashboard countdown widget I can download?
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That's both horrible and funny. Exactly the kinda viral fame the interwebbernets can produce.

So the deal is the 90 day jane persona was an art project - right? I just tried to find the blog, and it appears to be gone.
 
This is deplorable. YouTube should disable her account immediately so she can't get the attention she seeks. Clearly she is mentally ill and needs to seek treatment urgently.

We have a saying in the 911 business -- the ones who really want to kill themselves just go out and do it, and we never hear about it until the deed is done. The ones who really have no intention of doing it talk about it all the time.
 
She appears to have indicated in the blog that it was reality but her "art".

She got her semi-15 mins, I guess.
 
Did ANYBODY read her final blog post? I thought that it was terribly insightful and spoke volumes that nobody publicly offered help, but that many people did through private e-mails. She was quite frank that she did not expect it to garner as much attention as it did, and that when she found out how much attention she was getting, she felt that she could not continue the piece as originally planned. If you haven't read it, it's worth a read.

To call her an attention whore or mentally ill is disingenuous. She was trying to make a point and judging from the response she got, she made her point quite well.

Read her final post; it's well worth it and quite insightful.
 
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