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The day after the Internet took notice, someone calling himself "Danimal" turned on his webcam and recorded a cool cover of the song. The day after that, Mike Bauer recorded a cover of the song as Bob Dylan. On March 14th, a band called Tucker arranged the song with three-part-harmonies and put out a boy band version of the song. On March 15, Casey Harper put out an indie, acoustic cover. That same day, someone mashed the song Friday up with Ice Cube's Friday. On the 17th, a screamo version was recorded, with a full band, and another guy produced a professional-looking music video to a sad, depressing piano ballad version of the song. On the 21st, a community theater troupe in Charlottesville wrote, cast, and staged a ten minute play based on the song. So many covers, parodies, remixes and at least one Christian reimagining all on the Internet, all almost immediately after the source blew up. Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook were all just covered in Friday links, and every news and entertainment site was doing a story. The result is that, less than a week after we'd been made aware of the song, we were not only tired of the song, we were tired of parodies of the song. We were tired of lists of parodies of the song. We were tired of interviews with anyone associated with the song, we were tired of articles talking about how tired we were of the song. Everything even remotely related to Friday was met with instant eye-rolling and calls of "Ugh, are we still talking about this?" Four days after it came out. We're not just tired of it, we're angry when it gets brought up. I was so sick of it that, when Stephen Colbert announced he was going to do a cover of the song while accompanied by The Roots, my knee-jerk response was "Jesus, not another one." Stephen Colbert, maybe my favorite living satirist, and The Roots, an amazing band that I think would really like me if we just got to hang out for a while or whatever, and my instinct was to roll my eyes when their cover was announced, because it happened three weeks later, instead of within 48 hours. We watched this abrupt cycle of "This is hilarious wait no I'm sick of this please stop talking about this forever" happen before, with Charlie Sheen, and the Insane Clown Posse "Miracles" video before him. The Internet says, "Hey check this out," but it's already moved on by the time you click the link.