Rolling the clock back 5 years into 2011. A video that was supposed to be satirical took a downward spiral. Rebecca Black’s annoyingly catchy song surged across the nation, receiving negative attention from everyone. Rebecca Black wakes up and goes to school, meeting her friends on the way. In the evening, after debating whether to sit in the front or back of a convertible, Black and her friends ride the car to a party at 7:45 pm.
Video Link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0&list=RDkfVsfOSbJY0
The Friday video was originally posted on March 11, 2011 and later taken down in June 16, 2011 over a legal dispute between Rebecca Black and ARK Music. Before the video was taken down the view count was just under 166 million views, making it one of the top 20 most watched videos. It was then later reposted in September 2011 where it has been available for the last 5 years. The current count as of October 2, 2016 is 100,320,841 views 2.3 million of which are dislikes, making it one of the most disliked videos on YouTube.
The video spread like wild fire because it was that song you could not seem to get out of your head not matter what you did. It is very catchy. Everyone was singing it even though they “hated it”. People just hopped on the bandwagon even if they did like it. This was the first song to play at my schools prom that year because prom was on a Friday. It seemed like from when the video actually came out people were very annoyed with it, but by spring of next year it was seen as the satirical video it was meant to be. The video also spread because people loved commenting on it and making spoofs and remixes that made fun of the original.
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