This episode is based on the Lonelygirl15 (2006) hoax. Beginning in the spring of 2006, video blogs were posted on the internet from a user known as lonelygirl15 (weepingwillow17 in the episode). She claimed to be a lonely, home-schooled teenager. The video blogs were posted on YouTube (YouLenz in the episode), the popular on-line website that hosts videos. The face of the video blog eventually was revealed to be a 19-year-old actress named Jessica Rose, who was using the video blogs to get her acting career started. The video blog was created by Mesh Flinders, a screenwriter and filmmaker from Marin County, California; Miles Beckett, a surgical residency dropout turned filmmaker; and Greg Goodfried, a former attorney with Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, LLP.
Michelle Trachtenberg (Willow) and Pedro Pascal (Reggie) both appeared on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
Chris Noth (Mike Logan) & Wallace Shawn (Film Professor) also worked together on three episodes of The Good Wife (2009) as Peter Florrick & Charles Lester respectively.
Chris Noth (Mike Logan) & Nance Williamson (Rosalie Palmer) also worked together on episode 7.12 of The Good Wife (2009) and episode 5.23 of Law & Order (1990).
Nance Williamson (Rosalie Palmer) also played the part of Alba Guzman in episode 8.3, Identity Crisis (2009).