We so reverent on the one-year anniversary of "Friday"

My friends, today is Friday. Which means yesterday was Thursday. Which you probably wouldn't know, were it not for Rebecca Black, whose video for "Friday" is one year old. It was, somewhat ironically, first uploaded to the internet on a Thursday. Which would be "yesterday," (for, as it is written, "yesterday is Thursday") for those keeping score at home.

Of course, it was a few months before we learned of Black's affinity for cereal and generally misguided view of the English language (WE so excited, Rebecca? Maybe you should start getting up earlier than 7am to cram in some extra studying...), since it wasn't released as a single until March of 2011. But that doesn't mean that today isn't the actual anniversary.

R.B. didn't act alone, nor did she personally write the lyrics -- actual grown-ups did -- yet she, and not Ark Music Whatever, has become the eye of this media shitstorm.

In the year since "Friday" dropped like a giant deuce on the general consciousness, Rebecca Black has been suspected dead (her Wikipedia article even, for a long time, stated that she WAS dead, prompting hundreds of YouTube commenters to, in YouTube style, tell her to "RIP" and also that they'd "hit that"), received over 3 million "dislikes," and been parodied by the likes of Stephen Colbert.

Let us celebrate, now and every year after this one. The actual anniversary of the release of the album is February 10, which means that it won't always be on a Friday. Thus, I decree that every year, the second Friday of every month, shall be known as Black Friday, and we shall set forth, and declare that we never want this weekend to end.