After being bullied off the internet for her hit song Friday, Rebecca Black is having the last laugh.

It may not be Friday where you are, but any day is a good day to share this news: Rebecca Black is back.

She burst onto the scene in 2011, when she released a music video for her debut single 'Friday', which detailed her excitement about the end of the school week and having fun, fun, fun.

"You simply have to get down on Friday!" this excited 13-year-old was telling us. And she was right.

But of course, the internet mocked Black's song, to the point that it became a viral sensation for all the wrong reasons. What was a kind of silly song — written by adults, who are the real culprits here… because they can't write — became the reason Black would be mercilessly bullied all through her teen years.

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Saying she'd recorded the song and accompanying video in order to gain some experience in the industry, and have some fun, Black spoke about how the backlash impacted her in a blog post in 2017.

"The onslaught of negative attention I received was so sudden and so intense that I wasn't sure I would survive," she wrote at the time.

"One minute, I was a normal girl and then, in the next, millions of people knew who I was and they were ruthless in hurling the most vile words my way," Rebecca wrote.

"It was open season and I was the target. The fact that there was a human, a person — a 13-year-old girl — on the other side of the screen seemingly escaped so many people's attention.

"In my life, there were people I personally knew at school and in my inner circle who verbally abused me," she continued. "I once met someone who had bullied me online, and she told me to my face that she hadn't ever considered that I was actually a real, living, breathing human being. Her actions were, she said, all about venting her own sadness and aiming it, sort of ethereally, at me."

Black said she suffered in silence for years, before eventually seeking help.

"Whatever a bully is saying about you is wrong. It didn't feel that way when I was 13 and people were writing about how awful and undeserving I was, but I now know they were wrong," she wrote.

At 18, she moved to LA to try and pursue her dreams of turning things around and being a musician. She grew her YouTube audience, and met with possible collaborators. But no one would "give her the time of day" at that point, she said.

At 20, she considered quitting. But Black persevered, going on to appear on the series The Four: Battle for Stardom.

Then, in 2020, when she was still just 22, things began to change.

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In February 2020, Black penned a note to her followers on Instagram as she 'relaunched' herself with a new clean slate (read: she deleted all her previous Instagram posts).

"Above all things, I just wish I could go back and talk to my 13-year-old self who was terribly ashamed of herself and afraid of the world," she wrote. "To my 15-year-old self, who felt like she had nobody to talk to about the depression she faced. To my 17-year-old self, who would get to school only to get food thrown at her and her friends. To my 19-year-old self, who had almost every producer/songwriter tell me they'd never work with me.

"I'm trying to remind myself more and more that every day is a new opportunity to shift your reality and lift your spirit. You are not defined by any one choice or thing. time heals and nothing is finite."

In April 2020, Black first spoke about her sexuality, telling podcast Dating Straight she never planned on 'coming out'.

"I made a conscious decision to not, like, 'come out,'" she said. "Every day is different, it's something that over the past few years I've obviously been having a lot of conversations with myself about.

"To me, the word 'queer' feels really nice. I have dated a lot of different types of people, and I just don't really know what the future holds. Some days, I feel a little more on the 'gay' side than others."

The LGBTQI+ community was among the first to embrace 'Friday' as a novelty hit rather than a joke. Black found a safe space, which continued when members of the community cottoned on to her own queer identity.

"I always had a special relationship with the queer community, because they were some of the people who stuck their necks out for me before anybody else really did," Black told People magazine.

Since then, Black's been slowly but steadily reentering the world of music with a new hyperpop energy. In 2021, she released her debut EP, Rebecca Black Was Here, and went on a small tour.

She released her debut album, Let Her Burn, in 2023, creating the album alongside co-writers and producers including Amy Allen (who has worked with Harry Styles and Shawn Mendes) and Stint (who worked with Kesha and Demi Lovato).

"I'm so proud to finally be able to have this moment and see so many people listening to the album," Black told People. "It's definitely the biggest thing I've ever taken on creatively, and it's a process that I had tried to start so many times over the last 12 years."

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She toured the album across Europe, North America, and even came to Australia to perform in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

In 2024, her rise in the electro pop space has continued as she plays sets at the famous Boiler Room in LA.

And fans are noticing.

Black's latest release, Trust, was released this past week. Her post about the release on TikTok, which featured a snippet of the song accompanied by her music video, has already attracted more than 3 million views.

"Comeback era in full force," one user commented.

"This is the arc we all prayed for," added another.

"Rebecca… this is it," one fan wrote in a comment that the singer liked.

It was a long and complicated road for the artist, but it looks like she's finally having the last laugh. And it's only up from here.

"If there's one thing that I've wanted for my entire life, especially after 'Friday,' [it's] to find a community of people who understand me," she said in 2023.

"I understand the redemption-arc story of it all, but this is not the endpoint. I'm just getting started."