She had to go through a lot when she was made instantly famous thanks to YouTube, and it took a toll on a girl who was so young at the time. My kids love to whine, so I love to wine. My loves include nap time, bed time, date night, travel and evenings and weekends when my husband is home because he handles all diaper changes. You must be logged in to post a comment.
Success is a Family Thing If you wonder where she finds the desire to be successful, it was something her own parents taught her growing up. She Was Bullied During her school years, she spent a lot of time being bullied. Prev Article Next Article. Related Posts. Everyone in my sorority, and all the fraternities, they'd play it, and they were all really supportive and it was really awesome," she says.
Shortly after, Jey left the company and ARK dissolved. But Wilson didn't stop chasing the money — and the limelight. Wilson monetized ARK's music videos, which together have hundreds of millions of views. According to Business Insider , 1 million views can fetch creators thousands of dollars per year depending on the number of channel subscribers and ad placements.
Following the viral success of "Friday," Wilson also made multiple media appearances, including a guest spot on Good Morning America , where he hosted a "talent competition" seeking the next viral ARK Music Factory star.
However, rather than move in the direction of cheesy love songs like "Armour," Wilson produced more viral hits like " It's Thanksgiving " by Nicole Westbrook, and perhaps most infamously, " Chinese Food ," by Alison Gold. The songs were so obnoxiously tasteless pardon the pun that they verged on camp.
They appeared relatively harmless, save for some racist undertones in "Chinese Food," but the girls were nonetheless bullied and parodied online while Wilson reaped the tangential fame and money. Then came the videos for "Skip Rope" and "Shush Up," performed by Gold, which were eventually banned on YouTube for their thinly veiled adult themes children addicted to a mysterious white powdered candy, a child in an electric chair and inappropriate costuming in "Shush Up," Gold, then 10, wears a two-piece metallic spandex outfit.
Similarly to Swerdlow's "O. Rogers, peers through the window of a dollhouse into what appears to be Gold's bedroom. The public soon became wise to the common denominator behind these viral videos, and Wilson stopped producing videos with young girls after These days, he's promoting conspiracy theories about the "deep state" on the website "Christian Transparency. Though Wilson and the production company behind Swerdlow's "O. Present day influencers like the D'Amelio sisters have discussed the toll that internet fame has taken, and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has testified again and again that the algorithms are biased toward "bad actors," in ways that directly harm young people — girls especially — online.
Still, no substantive measures have been taken to protect the young people most vulnerable to this harm. Much like in , there's a preoccupation with view counts, which translate to greater payoffs for platform owners and advertisers, and a disregard for the people behind the content, its ethical standing or factual accuracy. And, frankly, that's disturbing. Rebecca Black is attempting a pop relaunch. They are women now and they are resilient, able to move forward and make light of the peril they endured when they were tweens.
But they shouldn't have had to, and young people finding followers today certainly should be spared the same trial by fire. It's difficult to say if the slim number of protections enacted in the last decade have made the internet a safer place for girls. Certainly there's a greater awareness of mental health issues that stem from cyberbullying, but that has done little to curtail the actual abuse still heaped on young young girls online, most of which comes from their peers.
If anything, the proliferation of social media has made girls more vulnerable to the pressures to mold themselves into the ideals that grow more impossible with each passing day. But these same tools have taken some of the power away from men like Wilson and Jey and put it in the hands of young girls themselves.
On TikTok especially, earning internet fame is easier than ever. And yet, my For You Page is still flooded with young women — maybe they're comedians, maybe they're singers — reading the debasing comments they receive, mostly from male viewers.
Some repeat the comments tearfully, others with disdain, and others still with boredom: That they're being shamed for trying something new, for being "vulnerable on main," or even for simply existing in their bodies, is not new or surprising. It's just the cost of being a girl on the internet. By Sam Reed Oct 28, pm. Save Pin FB More. All rights reserved. It was, in other words, a more earnest time—a time when long-tested playbooks for show-business success seemed likely to still rule social media.
Read: The aughts seem both cooler and sadder in retrospect. Black seems to have realized this. Over the years, Black heard from self-identified fans—many of them queer—who said they related to her as an underdog.
A palpable sense of nostalgia and affection was accumulating. Bringing that in in an intentional way was fun, and more interesting than trying to make a serious version.
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