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Her mother spent $4,000 to record a birthday song for a thirteen year old girl. It changed the next decade of that girl's life in ways nobody could have predicted.
The song was called Friday. Rebecca Black recorded it during school break, just for fun. It sat at around 1,000 views for a month. Then it didn't.
It became the most disliked video on all of YouTube. The count was public back then. Everyone could see it. Millions of people had gone out of their way to press a button just to register their contempt for a thirteen year old girl.
She was in eighth grade.
Kids at school would walk past her singing it in mocking voices. Food was thrown at her. She received threatening messages serious enough that police investigated them. She eventually switched to homeschooling.
At nineteen, almost every producer she approached told her they would never work with her. She wrote years later that she had spent most of her teenage years terribly ashamed of herself and afraid of the world.
She kept going.
Lady Gaga called the song genius. Katy Perry championed her publicly and invited her to appear in her own music video. Friday was covered on Glee. Her 2023 debut album received critical acclaim. In 2025 she released her second album, toured across North America and Europe, and opened for Katy Perry on a world tour.
She has turned down every offer to have the video removed from the internet. She said pulling it down would only attach more shame to something she no longer feels ashamed of.
The video has been watched over 167 million times.
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@DefiantLs “Destabilizing?” By ridding the world of rogue nations whose raison d’etre is to annihilate the US?
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@SaltyBitch_52 @HistorianUSA1 @grok Is this real or a fictional account of the two parent and the kid?
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This father has asked the mother to meet him half way when picking up his son. She choose a parking lot location but refuses to get out of the car to make sure the boy makes it to his dad safely.
If it wasn't for the dad getting out of his car, the son could have possibly been hit by other cars walking over to his car.
What I take from this is that her hatred for the dad out weighs the safety for their son. And the son is excited to see his daddy each time. What do you see?
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@Azariel91 Watching 2 women trying to communicate with each other while heated…
Might as well watch dogs sniffing each other’s butt, same level of productivity. 😂
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@JasonJournoDC @DailyCaller O’Connell is tiptoeing across eggshells, trying so hard to conform his speech to the Hollywood/LA virtue cast.
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🚨NEW: Bill Maher *SPARS* with Actor Jerry O'Connell over wokeness🚨
MAHER: "Do you have to always be f*ckingly stupidly counterintuitive about EVERYTHING? ... You look like you're ANGRY about this."
@DailyCaller
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@libsoftiktok There’s no published study that even remotely suggests that, unless children are surgically maimed with “gender, affirming surgery“ or poisoned with puberty blocking drugs, that they will kill themselves.
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@MemeNonLibs If you think sitting in front of your phone in your kitchen making banal videos is somehow contributing to the cultural zeitgeist, you may want to get your intelligence tested.
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One year after Elon Musk began his work with DOGE, deposition videos are providing a never-before-seen look at two of the people responsible for the largest mass termination of federal grants in the National Endowment for the Humanities' history. abcnews.link/rPSDuAN
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The next Iranian regime could be 'more brutal' than the last, according to Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi. Watch the full conversation on 'Bloomberg This Weekend.' We're LIVE every Saturday and Sunday morning: bloomberg.com/btv/series/blo…
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@RyanRozbiani Ryan, come on, admit it. Iran military is currently getting its ass kicked…. deservingly so.
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JUST IN 🇮🇷🇺🇸: Iran's Foreign Minister on Ceasefire
Abbas Araghchi: "We never asked for a ceasefire or negotiations.
We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes until Trump comes to the point that this is an illegal war. There are people being killed only because Trump wants to have fun.:
Ryan Rozbiani@RyanRozbiani
JUST IN 🇮🇷🇺🇸: Iranian Missile Strikes are Hitting Israel Roughly Every 90 minutes This means the Israelis are running to shelters every few hours. Missiles might not always hit but psychological warfare is destructive. Local Israeli media report 11,314 damage compensation claims filed in the first 14 days of the war through the state compensation fund. Tel Aviv accounts for about half the claims
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