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- ↑ EQAL’s New Lonelygirl15 ‘Show is Yours’, Tilzy.tv (Jan. 6, 2009)
- 1 2 Announcement on the LG15.com homepage, Finale page on LGPedia
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- ↑ Beckett, Miles. "The Show is All of Yours". lg15.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2012.
- ↑ McConnell, Austin. "Did I Kill LonelyGirl15? [video]". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15.