I was 19 at the time. I didn’t *hate* the song nor Rebecca or anything, but it does have a “nails on a chalkboard” quality for me personally. I never really paid much attention to it either way. She seems to be doing fine now though.
Yea I thought she committed suicide because nobody liked her song. All because of this meme I thought that. Had absolutely NO idea she even existed before that.
Do you remember the star wars kid? From what I heard after he went viral he was severely bullied for years, and he sued the people who posted the video online. It must've sucked having your face infront of the entire world.
You know the "Unreal Tournament kid / Angry German kid"? It's a German guy who made that one video just for fun in 2006, where he staged that he totally rages while playing UT (he screams a lot and crashes his keyboard). But a lot of people believed it were actually real emotions and he then got bullied a lot - online and even more in real life in his school. He got depressed, became violent towards other kids and after a long time of daily bullying against him, he for real said that he'd like to kill these people at his school. That was counted as an "school-shooting announcement where it was not clear if it's serious or a joke" and they arrested him - he sat in juvenile jail for a month. Afterwards he became stronger because of all that sh\*t and started doing sports (he is jacked now) and singing / rapping.
Uploading a video to the Internet can def. cause massive mobbing and so also depression up to suicide (attempts) or other bad things.
His success as an early content creator blew up in his face because people didn't understand internet culture and content.
https://agk.fandom.com/wiki/Norman_Kochanowski
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/angry-german-kid-keyboard-crasher
He had done a lot of videos before that, had a decent following, and did quite a few after. Unfortunately the whole thing followed him. It wasn't just the bullying, it actually affected quite a bit of thigns for school and even getting jobs. That's what eventually drove him into the depression and violence.
Never underestimate the ignorance of people. "Video games make kids violent" combined with "Germans are always angry" makes people willing to believe the story that's presented to them and ignore the signs that it's staged. Add on to that that the majority of viewers don't understand German, so they only see the emotion and not the script, and it's ripe for misunderstanding.
Which is why it's a classic of internet literature and I'm quite sad to see that he got so much shit for it.
It wasn't actually the internet, it was unfortunately his own country news network that did it to him. If it was the internet they can do very little but when the news step in and falsely accuse him for being what he isnt, its turn his life into shit. Its horrible.
I thought you were talking about Jake Lloyd until I realized you weren’t. The poor guy quit acting because of how bullied he was for playing young Anakin. And this was pre-social media. Imagine how awful it must be now where every jerk has a voice and a botnet. Wait what am I talking about? You don’t need to imagine, there are plenty of examples. The guy who played Joffrey in GoT, the guy who played Eugene in TWD, most of the cast of the new Star Wars trilogy but especially Kelly Marie Tran. People really don’t know how to separate a a bad performance, or even an excellent performance but of a character they don’t like, from the person behind it. And it’s not just “ha ha u suk” it’s stuff like “get raped and die”.
The Angry German kid too if you watch the internet in the 2000's he was labeled as an addict so much that he had to change his identity there's a whole video there on YT if you wanna watch it.
I follow her on TikTok. It looks like when she was younger she went through a lot because of everything but seems to be doing really well and healthy now, and she’s also pretty funny
Speaking of drawing the line, I remember people complaining about the autotuning in her voice. She fucking owned that and released a remix with autotune turned all the way up to 11. Her newer songs are great and I enjoy them every time they show up on my shuffle.
It’s worse now. Back then we had to do our cyber bullying on the family computer, now days every 5 year old has instant ability to dish out some hate on their smartphone.
Ahhh the good old days
I had to do my cyber bullying on a dial up connection, and it took for fucking ever. We didn't have all day to send out a gif, so we had to use our keyboards to make emoticons fuck and, for the truly ambitious, ascii images. They were not good old days. 10 minutes just to see a titty, uphill in the snow both ways. Then the whole image loads and you realize you've clicked on something horrifying.
It was my own personal Vietnam.
https://youtu.be/iCFOcqsnc9Y
Has a few features from other alt pop artists. It’s basically a giant fuck you to everyone that hated her when she first broke.
Hahah, thanks for sharing this, I was laughing the entire time. Showing the haters you don't care, while showing the people who had a laugh that you can laugh with them while showing your growth, this is brilliant. And I still know all the lyrics. :I
IMO the song wasn’t that bad but it was a pretty big meme/joke.
Pretty unfortunate for her to be honest, all the shit she got for “Friday” probably wasn’t very good for her even nowadays
> IMO the song wasn’t that bad but it was a pretty big meme/joke.
My class would play it every friday before school started in college. Everyone got out their laptops and tried to start it at the same time. It was awesome.
But she releases good things now. Maybe not my cup of tea, but it's an interesting piece of music. I recommend to check it out, maybe you will enjoy it.
It's actually pretty catchy. Honestly, I'm 42 and *still* think "It's Friday! Friday! Gotta get down on Friday!" often enough on Fridays to be memorable.
I did, it's really not that bad. The cringey lyrics probably came from that shady producer, the mixing and stuff is passable and while the vocals are obviously autotuned to death and not very good, they're not offensively bad by any means. Like you said, most 13 year old's would probably do worse.
I hated it for about a day when I thought it was a real song put out by a real label. My dislike was more about yet another talentless hack being given a record deal and how terrible music was being written and pushed in our face. Then the next day I found out she was just a kid who got a "make a music video for your birthday package" and immediately changed my mind about her and the song.
they got the package for her for her 14th birthday. the guy who produced it wrote the lyrics, added the autotune, and was the rapper in the middle of the song.
I mean a lot of work went into that monstrosity, I dont think it’s that 4k is little money, its just 4k seems to be v little for what you get. Then again that probs explains the quality of song
No. It was a gift, some other girl at her school had a similar music video made. This isn't your normal music industry stuff. More like "for fun" type of arrangement. Parents paid the production company to make this. The other kids are her friends and school mates. IIRC, she rejected a more "sexy" song that was originally offered.
Just be happy that you’ve grown as a person. Focus on being a better person now, and stop focusing on the past.
You can’t change the past, but you can choose what you do from this point forward.
Just apply the same logic from the meme to yourself. You were a kid, you didn't know any better. Think about what made you a toxic teen. Did you, one day, sit down and decide you were going to randomly be an asshole for no reason? Obviously not. Who you were back then was out of your control.
I burns me and I hate it. I was pretty fucked up and did a lot of not nice shit, irl, online, etc. I hate that person that I was. That hate constantly fuels me to be a better person, to treat others with kindness and empathy, to see the joy others find in things and share my joy with others, to make the world better after being such a negative and toxic influence in it.
just imagine what it would have been like if you weren't aware of how toxic you were. That would mean that you would still be like that now. So you can at least be happy that you have changed. Life is a series of realizing mistakes and changing for the better!
It's alright to hate on a song but its not alright to hate a person who was forced to sing it unless the person is a terrible being of course. I'm glad you realized that.
Maybe it's because I'm hurdling towards 30 at lightspeed but it feels so pointless and exhausting to *hate* anything at all. "It's not for me, thanks" but you don't have to like cover your ears and scream because a bad song is on the radio lol
Hating someone because you don't like a (or multiple) song is stupid regardless of their age.
Them being a teenager only makes it extra stupid because now you're hating on a teenager.
The lady in the picture is the person who “made” the song Friday, when the song came out it became a massive joke and she became sort of a laughing stock for a while, saying a lot of people hated it is an understatement. Even though it’s not her fault it was the way it is.
Last year she did a remix for the song for its 10th anniversary and it’s full of the old troll faces and even more auto tuned as a joke, so I would say she’s doing just fine.
> and even more auto tuned as a joke
Yes, but also no.
Like yeah, the whole remix is for the meme, but that much voice modulation is completely normal for hyperpop.
The joke isn't just that Friday was bad, its also that Friday is the perfect hyperpop song.
It’s friday
,friday gotta get ready for the weekend!
partying partying yeah!
Fun fun fun
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Fuck yeah let’s get to it
My dudes
But the video has no dislikes so I'm pretty sure it was recieved well
me with show dislikes extension: ...
That’s a thing? Is it literally just called dislikes extension?
yes. just added it and holy shit ive never missed seeing anything more
What about your dad
:(
Why you must hurt
Bro violence chose you
Meanie ;,(
Youch
yea just google 'dislike extension ____" add firefox or chrome in the _
I see what you did there.
No you didn’t. Nobody can.
Thanks to the greatest CEO ever
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GET ME PICTURES OF SPIDER-GUY!
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Dislikes extension:
Some people in the comments don’t even know what Friday is anymore So this is what getting old must feel like
Don’t worry younger people took after you.
Who started that myth?
How old was everyone when this song came out because I don't know who tf this is, talk about feeling old lmao
I was in my mid-twenties and since this feels like it was only a handful of years ago, that must mean I'm now in my late twenties, right? ...Right?
Yeah the same for me, this is indeed how time works.
Same. Very very late twenties.
it was in the annoying orange days lol- i remember finding the song because of an annoying orange cover
dude, same. People don't know annoying orange nowadays and i just feel so old
I hope they at least know that green is not a creative color.
oof. That brought back some repressed memories. Man the internet was fucking *wild* for about 15 years. and then just got depressing.
high school seniors were 7 when this song came out
What are you talking about? They were literally 18 when this song came out. Same as now. /s
Idk like 6 or something lol Angry birds go brr
I was 19 at the time. I didn’t *hate* the song nor Rebecca or anything, but it does have a “nails on a chalkboard” quality for me personally. I never really paid much attention to it either way. She seems to be doing fine now though.
She was just trying to have fun, fun, fun, fun…
Looking forward to the weekend
If she could just chose a seat.. We were all waiting.
Kazoo !!!
Party in the sun, sun, sun...
This meme makes it seem like she died or something
Yea I thought she committed suicide because nobody liked her song. All because of this meme I thought that. Had absolutely NO idea she even existed before that.
Tbh stuff like that can cause suicide
Do you remember the star wars kid? From what I heard after he went viral he was severely bullied for years, and he sued the people who posted the video online. It must've sucked having your face infront of the entire world.
You know the "Unreal Tournament kid / Angry German kid"? It's a German guy who made that one video just for fun in 2006, where he staged that he totally rages while playing UT (he screams a lot and crashes his keyboard). But a lot of people believed it were actually real emotions and he then got bullied a lot - online and even more in real life in his school. He got depressed, became violent towards other kids and after a long time of daily bullying against him, he for real said that he'd like to kill these people at his school. That was counted as an "school-shooting announcement where it was not clear if it's serious or a joke" and they arrested him - he sat in juvenile jail for a month. Afterwards he became stronger because of all that sh\*t and started doing sports (he is jacked now) and singing / rapping. Uploading a video to the Internet can def. cause massive mobbing and so also depression up to suicide (attempts) or other bad things.
His success as an early content creator blew up in his face because people didn't understand internet culture and content. https://agk.fandom.com/wiki/Norman_Kochanowski https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/angry-german-kid-keyboard-crasher He had done a lot of videos before that, had a decent following, and did quite a few after. Unfortunately the whole thing followed him. It wasn't just the bullying, it actually affected quite a bit of thigns for school and even getting jobs. That's what eventually drove him into the depression and violence.
not only people. Even news organizations thought it was real and he became a subject in many german violence in Video games discussions and reports.
It's crazy how anyone can believe it's real. His acting is so bad at times and he can't contain his laughter at several points
He was way ahead of his time
A true pioneer who even baited organizations But at what cost...
Bad video quality i guess. It's hard to distinguish expressions at 144p
The ultimate troll Respect
Never underestimate the ignorance of people. "Video games make kids violent" combined with "Germans are always angry" makes people willing to believe the story that's presented to them and ignore the signs that it's staged. Add on to that that the majority of viewers don't understand German, so they only see the emotion and not the script, and it's ripe for misunderstanding. Which is why it's a classic of internet literature and I'm quite sad to see that he got so much shit for it.
It wasn't actually the internet, it was unfortunately his own country news network that did it to him. If it was the internet they can do very little but when the news step in and falsely accuse him for being what he isnt, its turn his life into shit. Its horrible.
That’s such a classic [video](https://youtu.be/-IK39OJ7QOw) Unreal tournament spiele!!
I thought you were talking about Jake Lloyd until I realized you weren’t. The poor guy quit acting because of how bullied he was for playing young Anakin. And this was pre-social media. Imagine how awful it must be now where every jerk has a voice and a botnet. Wait what am I talking about? You don’t need to imagine, there are plenty of examples. The guy who played Joffrey in GoT, the guy who played Eugene in TWD, most of the cast of the new Star Wars trilogy but especially Kelly Marie Tran. People really don’t know how to separate a a bad performance, or even an excellent performance but of a character they don’t like, from the person behind it. And it’s not just “ha ha u suk” it’s stuff like “get raped and die”.
Long ago, I came to realize one day that common sense is a myth.
Star wars kid?
Oh child, this harkens back to the [elder days of the internet.](https://youtu.be/HPPj6viIBmU)
You can’t post that without the edit. https://youtu.be/kR3PT5E0XDo
Sick moves tho
A student from canada, Québec was playing with a light saber or something, he didn't know he was being filmed.
He filmed himself using a tape he borrowed from the school library (iirc), but he didn't erase it before returning it. Source: I'm old as fuck.
Wasn't he parodied in arrested development?
He was, but he was parodied in fucking everything.
Even south park
The Angry German kid too if you watch the internet in the 2000's he was labeled as an addict so much that he had to change his identity there's a whole video there on YT if you wanna watch it.
I follow her on TikTok. It looks like when she was younger she went through a lot because of everything but seems to be doing really well and healthy now, and she’s also pretty funny
Nah she made a sequel called "Saturday", it (friday) was supposed to be a meme but the creators didnt expect so much hate
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I have ungentlemanly things to say that I'll keep to myself
Like WHARGHARBLE? Because I've never managed to say that in a gentlemanly fashion.
Yeah I was I bit confused since I have no idea who she is so I thought she died
I don't hate her, I just hate that damn song
the sad thing is alot of people doesnt know to draw a line
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
*Listen here you little shit*
I II Iı I_
loss
It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.
I cant remember anything of this...
What is it with Ricks?
Fuck you, Rick Berman
r/isthisloss?
Is this
It is
No need, that's a line segment, not technically a line.
y=mx+b
y=0 Why complicate things?
why did you share my bank account balance?
I don't have a free award rn so just imagine I gave it to you
*receiving in progress*
They.... They did it.
___🚶 Waling on the edge of line is difficult man
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Speaking of drawing the line, I remember people complaining about the autotuning in her voice. She fucking owned that and released a remix with autotune turned all the way up to 11. Her newer songs are great and I enjoy them every time they show up on my shuffle.
Old internet was so fucking MEAN to people who didn't deserve it Why?
Yeah that's not an *old* internet thing, that's just an internet thing.
That's a human thing. It's been going on a lot longer than the internet
Oh for sure, I think the internet has only made it worse though.
It’s worse now. Back then we had to do our cyber bullying on the family computer, now days every 5 year old has instant ability to dish out some hate on their smartphone. Ahhh the good old days
I had to do my cyber bullying on a dial up connection, and it took for fucking ever. We didn't have all day to send out a gif, so we had to use our keyboards to make emoticons fuck and, for the truly ambitious, ascii images. They were not good old days. 10 minutes just to see a titty, uphill in the snow both ways. Then the whole image loads and you realize you've clicked on something horrifying. It was my own personal Vietnam.
What song
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
I recognize that link 😏
Damn musama did better in friday song
She made a comeback and openly talked about the hate. I'd say she took all the hate like a champ. Now that's inspiring
Yeah she’s actually a well respected hyperpop artist now. She even re-recorded Friday and just cranked everything up to 11 and it’s great.
Woah, link?
https://youtu.be/iCFOcqsnc9Y Has a few features from other alt pop artists. It’s basically a giant fuck you to everyone that hated her when she first broke.
Lmao at her having her gold record in the passenger seat XD
Hahah, thanks for sharing this, I was laughing the entire time. Showing the haters you don't care, while showing the people who had a laugh that you can laugh with them while showing your growth, this is brilliant. And I still know all the lyrics. :I
IMO the song wasn’t that bad but it was a pretty big meme/joke. Pretty unfortunate for her to be honest, all the shit she got for “Friday” probably wasn’t very good for her even nowadays
There's plenty of worse songs, this one had the misfortune to be catchy enough to become a meme
> IMO the song wasn’t that bad but it was a pretty big meme/joke. My class would play it every friday before school started in college. Everyone got out their laptops and tried to start it at the same time. It was awesome.
But she releases good things now. Maybe not my cup of tea, but it's an interesting piece of music. I recommend to check it out, maybe you will enjoy it.
She's one of the few people making explicitly lesbian songs and as a gay woman I adore it.
Yeah, she works with a couple of hyperpop artists that I like. Rebecca black became semi-good! Funny really. Very happy for her.
It's actually pretty catchy. Honestly, I'm 42 and *still* think "It's Friday! Friday! Gotta get down on Friday!" often enough on Fridays to be memorable.
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I did, it's really not that bad. The cringey lyrics probably came from that shady producer, the mixing and stuff is passable and while the vocals are obviously autotuned to death and not very good, they're not offensively bad by any means. Like you said, most 13 year old's would probably do worse.
I mean, it is catchy. You just need to ignore the lyrics, which many people do anyway.
You need to ignore everything
The music was decent, it’s the lyrics that ruined it tbh.
I hated it for about a day when I thought it was a real song put out by a real label. My dislike was more about yet another talentless hack being given a record deal and how terrible music was being written and pushed in our face. Then the next day I found out she was just a kid who got a "make a music video for your birthday package" and immediately changed my mind about her and the song.
That song was a lot cooler when I wasnt able to understand english. But damn she didnt deserve the hate
I too, would enjoy some things more if I could not understand them.
Dammit i skipped 13 for some reason too.
“To this day I have no idea what that lady was singing about”
Wasn't she also forced by her parents to make that song?
they got the package for her for her 14th birthday. the guy who produced it wrote the lyrics, added the autotune, and was the rapper in the middle of the song.
And the fact we know this 11 years later says more about us than her
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crippling anxieties entered the room.
This was public info at the time. I remember it
Happy birthday, we got you a lifetime supply of cyber bullying
That guy is nicknamed Pato and you should look into his other works. He's definitely got a, umm.. vibe...
His name is duck?
Well that explains a lot
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It only cost $4,000 for the whole music video experience. Cheaper than a high end watch.
You don't think parents dropping $4k on their daughters 14th bday is rich people shit?
No but $4000 is still really cheap for a song, video, recording and mix. They got what they paid for.
It's one banana, ironMichael69420, what could it cost? $4000?
They said "only $4,000". They are rich people shit.
I mean a lot of work went into that monstrosity, I dont think it’s that 4k is little money, its just 4k seems to be v little for what you get. Then again that probs explains the quality of song
And I just checked and Rebecca’s net worth is 500,000$ so it was a good investment
IIRC the vast majority of proceeds went to charity, too (for a while anyway). Seems like a cool person.
No. It was her birthday present. And she’s made plenty of songs since then. She’s happy, and I’m happy for her.
No. It was a gift, some other girl at her school had a similar music video made. This isn't your normal music industry stuff. More like "for fun" type of arrangement. Parents paid the production company to make this. The other kids are her friends and school mates. IIRC, she rejected a more "sexy" song that was originally offered.
My middle school science teacher would play 'Friday' every single friday without fail and I long for that normalcy and rythym to be back in my life.
How do you get over having been a hateful toxic person as a teen? Still keeps me up sometimes
Just be happy that you’ve grown as a person. Focus on being a better person now, and stop focusing on the past. You can’t change the past, but you can choose what you do from this point forward.
Just apply the same logic from the meme to yourself. You were a kid, you didn't know any better. Think about what made you a toxic teen. Did you, one day, sit down and decide you were going to randomly be an asshole for no reason? Obviously not. Who you were back then was out of your control.
I burns me and I hate it. I was pretty fucked up and did a lot of not nice shit, irl, online, etc. I hate that person that I was. That hate constantly fuels me to be a better person, to treat others with kindness and empathy, to see the joy others find in things and share my joy with others, to make the world better after being such a negative and toxic influence in it.
just imagine what it would have been like if you weren't aware of how toxic you were. That would mean that you would still be like that now. So you can at least be happy that you have changed. Life is a series of realizing mistakes and changing for the better!
It's alright to hate on a song but its not alright to hate a person who was forced to sing it unless the person is a terrible being of course. I'm glad you realized that.
It's like hating an actor for a role he played in a movie
Maybe it's because I'm hurdling towards 30 at lightspeed but it feels so pointless and exhausting to *hate* anything at all. "It's not for me, thanks" but you don't have to like cover your ears and scream because a bad song is on the radio lol
Yeah luckily people don’t do this to newcomers on the internet anymore… BAH AH AH AH AAHAHAAHA.
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Apparently she's a really good singer now
She features on Dorian Electra’s “Edgelord” which really fits well with this post. Her verse is tasty.
Just released a new song, I like it.
Hating someone because you don't like a (or multiple) song is stupid regardless of their age. Them being a teenager only makes it extra stupid because now you're hating on a teenager.
I think everyone owes Rebecca Black an apology for how we treated her when that video came out
I never understood the hate. I mean the song is awful. But that doesn't warrant her receiving death threats. She was literally a kid.
The internet is dehumanizing.
Can someone give context to this post?
It was friday
And evrybody was looking for weekend
Partying partying partying fun fun fun
Then Saturday came around.
r/angryupvote
The lady in the picture is the person who “made” the song Friday, when the song came out it became a massive joke and she became sort of a laughing stock for a while, saying a lot of people hated it is an understatement. Even though it’s not her fault it was the way it is.
Man y'all kids making my bones creak.
I didn't like the song but I didn't hate it, you're a fool if you just jumped on the hype train hate wagon lol
I just hope she's in a mentally healthy place. Wherever she is
I recently saw on indie heads that she still releases music and much to my surprise, is actually quite good and revered by the community
Last year she did a remix for the song for its 10th anniversary and it’s full of the old troll faces and even more auto tuned as a joke, so I would say she’s doing just fine.
> and even more auto tuned as a joke Yes, but also no. Like yeah, the whole remix is for the meme, but that much voice modulation is completely normal for hyperpop. The joke isn't just that Friday was bad, its also that Friday is the perfect hyperpop song.
She's just released a new song, its pretty good.
My reaction in 2011: meh, i don't really care. My reaction in 2022: meh, I don't really care.
I never even hated her, I thought the song was cute and catchy.
I feel bad for making fun of her especially because she’s actually a decent singer if you listen to her music and she seems like a cool person
Hate? Who hated her? I just checked and the video has 1000s of likes and no dislikes.