Rebecca Black’s “Friday” taken off YouTube after most Dislikes ever


Posted by The Shogun on 29 Mar 2011 / 18 Comments


The infamous music video that made this 13 year old an overnight internet sensation has been taken down by it’s record label, Ark Music Factory. Rebecca Black’s “Friday” racked up an impressive total of 64 million YouTube views in the past month alone, in which 99% of the votes were dislikes. In fact Rebecca Black’s music video now stands as the most disliked video ever on the video broadcasting site at an astounding 1.162 million dislikes. Just a piece of trivia for you but the second most hated video of all time happens to be Justin Bieber’s “Baby” standing at 1.163 million dislikes however the 600,000 or so likes certainly helps to balance the figure.

You’ve got to feel sorry for her as she’s clearly someone whose been taken advantage of for the gains of this record label. Whether you love or loathe the song, it’s certainly gained publicity and for better or for worse has brought this record company into the limelight.

The single is still on sale from iTunes but lord knows why you’d actually want to buy tripe like this.

UPDATE (30/3/11): It’s being reported that it was only down for 3 hours but at the moment it’s still down in the UK. We’ll keep this posted

UPDATE (30/3/11): It seems that after all that, the video really is back up online. Still, it maintain that rare title of being the most hated video online. According to Arc Music Factory’s owner Patrice Wilson, the video went down because his YouTube account got hacked but now everything is back up and is “all good”.

UPDATE (17/06/2011): Well now the video is down again but for entirely different reasons. Rebecca Black is currently in dispute with her record label, Arc Music Factory, over who owns her image rights. The label or Rebecca Black herself. Crazy no? Either way she’s filed a take down notice to YouTube for the infringement and it’s subsequently disappeared from YouTube.

Written by The Shogun

Soul Editor, Writer and Creator of TheUrbanShogun.com

  • Desireetelemaque

    I HATE THUS SONG SO I DON’T CARE!!!!

  • Asdasd

    Awwh

  • Travis

    i didn’t mind the song just the autotune voice wasn’t the best considering they barely had to autotune it

  • Jimi

    I can imagine she would feel really bad at all of the non-constructive criticism the video has received.

  • Salemander

    :( I LIKE THE SONG AND NOW IT’S GONE!

  • GermanPrick101

    I did my part! 

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  • Rebecca’s Black.

    “you’ve go to feel sorry for her” No. I don’t. Her voice was autotuned.

    • Salemander

      She actually wasn’t there was an uncut video of her singing it for the Ark Music Factory, and she was really good, she was on tune and everything!

  • Anonymous

    I was one of the dislikes. I do feel sorry for her, especially since that song was not written by her and they chose to do the horrible crap with her voice. She might be a fairly good singer in real life, i don’t know. She really got the wrong end of that stick, assuming that you don’t subscribe to the theory that any attention is good attention. Some version of the video is back up now, at least in Canada.

    • http://www.theurbanshogun.com Shogun168

      Yeah I agree .. allegedly this was all her mother’s idea so you know .. kind of hard to blame her when she’s got so many forces around her that seem to be negatively influencing her for the wose

  • Meredith
    • http://www.theurbanshogun.com Shogun168

      Thanks for the update!

  • AridLegend

    It was taken down for about 3 hours, but now it’s back up.

    • http://www.theurbanshogun.com Shogun168

      I think maybe YouTube’s still rolling out changes .. it’s still down over here but thanks for the update

  • Assman

    …?
    it’s still up.

    • http://www.theurbanshogun.com Shogun168

      I just did a check and couldn’t find it .. there’s a ton of parody videos but the official one is actually down .. might go back up alter at some point i don’t know, but at the moment it’s definitely down.