Your hatred of "Friday" is making Rebecca Black rich

The love-hate fascination with Rebecca Black—the Ark Music Factory-pressed PlayDoh pop star whose song “Friday” forces listeners to consider the ceaseless onward plodding of the days in more ways than one—is most likely making her wealthy, so there. Forbes, America’s foremost chroniclers of how much more money people make than you, estimates that Black’s 30 million-and-growing hits on her viral video has earned her some $20,000, thanks to revenue earned from the YouTube Partner Agreement. That's already a 1000-percent return on the initial investment by Black’s mother, who paid Ark $2,000 to make her daughter a pop star because her special princess deserved it. But that’s not all: Black’s viral fame—which extends to satirical covers by death metal bands, faux-Bob Dylans, and even Conan O’Brien—has resulted in several hundred thousand downloads of the song on iTunes directly into people’s ironic playlists, with Black earning $.70 for every single one.