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Rebecca Black Friday meme breaks records

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Rebecca Black’s infamously bad ‘Friday’ song and accompanying video is surely the highest traffic meme on YouTube. Take a look at the stats at the time at writing:

  • 128 million, yes million, views
  • 351k likes, but a whopping 2.5 million dislikes, the most dislikes of any YouTube video (beating Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’)
  • 2.81 million comments. Million, seriously.
  • Too many parodies, commentaries, pieces of news coverage to mention
  • All combined, this surely makes it the biggest YouTube meme in history

And here at the current ‘YouTube honors:

  • #2 – Most Discussed (All Time)
  • #2 – Most Discussed (All Time) – Music
  • #82 – Top Favorited (All Time) – Music
  • #18 – Top Rated (All Time)
  • #10 – Top Rated (All Time) – Music

And, yes, the song is terrible, but even more annoying is that it is a little catchy.

It may all be rather unfair on a young girl, but it just goes to show that if you’re going to do something badly, do it so badly it’s remarkable (nearly 3m remarks and counting…).

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0&w=560&h=349]

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