2. Cyberbullying is any harassment that occurs
via the Internet.
Vicious forum posts
name calling in chat rooms
posting fake profiles on web sites,
mean or cruel email messages
3.
4. Rebecca Black is an amateurYouTube musician
who soared into the public eye for her music
video “Friday.”
The song gained significant online notoriety in
March 2011 for its monotonous lyrics
accompanied by heavy use of auto-tune.
According to Black’s profile on the Ark Music
Factory website, she’s a 13-year-old aspiring
entertainer who has “landed the lead role in her
school musical, Oklahoma!”
5. The video happened by fate. After passing a casting-call
audition, Rebecca was invited to record one of two songs label
heads had written for her. As part of a $2,000 package her mother
paid for, they offered to produce a video and put it onYouTube.
She picked “Friday.”
Rebecca said: “I didn’t write it at all.The other song was about
adult love-I haven’t experienced that yet. ‘Friday’ is about hanging
out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that
song.” But the lyrics and production didn’t sound like the real her.
Her voice is heavily processed through auto-tune. Rebecca is now
going forward with plans to record an acoustic version of “Friday”
to show off her true vocal range, without auto-tune.
6.
7. In her first interview since becoming a viral
superstar with her song “Friday,” 13-year-old
Rebecca Black admitted she has “haters” and
she’s being cyberbullied.
Rebecca never set out to get famous.
But the girl from Orange County, California took
Charlie Sheen off the throne as a topTwitter
trending topic.
8. The video for “Friday” has already been
viewed 13 million times and counting on
YouTube.
9. She said: “Those hurtful comments really
shocked me. At times, it feels like I’m being
cyberbullied.”
10.
11. Time.com called the song “a whole new level of bad”
and “a train wreck.”
Slate called it “disastrous”
Yahoo asked, “Is YouTube sensation Rebecca Black‟s
„Friday‟ the worst song ever?”
12. “I hope you cut yourself . I hope you get an eating
disorder that makes you look prettier.”
“I hope you‟d die.”
“we don't hateher because she's famous, she's famous
because we hate her.”
