#FBF: Rebecca Black discusses going viral

Rebecca Black — now 22 — talks about the abuse and subsequent depression she went through after her song "Friday" went viral in 2011.

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00:00The thing that kind of holds the most memory for me would be just the the sheer

00:07like loneliness and isolation I had after Friday.

00:12It was weird, it was overwhelming and it was scary and nobody can teach you about that.

00:40I don't think people realize that I was a kid and there are certain things just

00:44like not to like mess with with a kid and there are also a lot of people I

00:47think because again they didn't realize my age really like sexualized me and

00:52made fun of that and that was a weird thing to understand until I got older.

00:58When you're 13 you have no marker to you know guide yourself on what's right or

01:04not so when somebody tells you you're something or it tells you whether it be

01:07that you're ugly or not talented or that you should never do this you have

01:11no choice but to believe it.

01:24The times that I felt the most depressed was when I not only felt like the world

01:30would never allow me to do anything really in that world ever again or

01:36feeling like maybe the internet would ever accept me but also just feeling

01:40like people even in my own life, friends, family, people at school at the time

01:46would never be able to see past this thing because for a while it felt like a

01:52lot of people were avoiding me like the plague.

02:15If she could see that like I am a functioning person and that I'm okay and

02:20I have a life and I have this love for music and art and everything in that

02:28world still I think she would she would feel a lot more hopeful and maybe not

02:32be so hard on herself. Most teenagers, most young adults, most people in general

02:37are going through it they're just not comfortable enough to talk about it and

02:42if I can be that person to hopefully help somebody else get through it then

02:45that's everything.

02:50you