>>149778971
If Annoying Orange absolutely started the downfall of one thing, it was YouTube content as a whole, particularly content geared towards kids. A lot of people who grew up on golden age YouTube cite 2011-2014 as the downfall or final breaths of the classic era. Annoying Orange embodied the slop content of that period, it was basically the proto-brainrot content of YouTube, referencing now-dated memes, lets plays of whatever was popular at the time, not to mention that it wasn’t even that funny in the first place, it’s just the same joke on repeat, and kids at that shit up. The original Annoying Orange video wasn’t even that funny either ffs, other Danboe videos had stronger humor.
You can’t convince me that the Annoying Oranges slopmaking didn’t convince other creators to follow suit, ever since that channel started pumping that shit out YouTube became gradually more brainrotted.