It wasn't polished. It had a crudeness that, at the time, appealed to my punk sensibilities. For a brief moment, it seemed like it might be a hopeful sign for the future. It was a huge indy hit, outside of the industry. Even the backlash could be compared to the initial reaction to the Sex Pistols. I loved the fact that it was written in blank verse (no rhymes) like a Talking Heads song.

None of that promise was ever fulfilled by anything else I've seen from Arc Music Factory. It may be that Rebecca Black contributed to the phenomenon by refusing to do the creepy "adult-theme" song Patrice Wilson originally planned, and the success of "Friday" may be due to the fact that Wilson was forced out of his comfort zone, an unfortunate tendancy to sexualize tweens.

I haven't followed Rebecca Black, but I looked her up. She's now in her 20s, and while her career may have peaked (her last song to make the charts was in 2016), she does have a career, unlike Patrice Wilson, who really has disappeared without a trace.

I loved the blank verse, too. I loved how the verse depended on cadence.

I really just like Rebecca Black. She took absolutely no one's shit. She was cyberbullied and she refused to take the song down and she said fuuuuuck you to everyone that didn't like it.

She should be the fucking Queen of Youtube.

What happened to Catie Wayne (Boxxy) was beyond Cyberbullying, though there was plenty of that. FourChan turned her dumb video for friends into a meme, which meant that 4chan had decided it owned her. They threatened her, hacked her YouTube, photoshopped her into porn, hunted her down IRL, left creepy messages on her front porch. After being driven from the internet, she returned for a youtube career on her terms.

And, of course, the btards resented that, thinking her "ungrateful". The /b/tards had named her "Queen", which she quite rightly hated, it was a ridiculous title, but the other side is that she would have made a great Queen. She was a born politician. She reclaimed her image, patiently, shrewdly and brilliantly. There were a few misteps, but she learned quickly, and there were far more master strokes.

She's now working for the Disney channel, as a voice actor.