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Annoying Orange
2009 · TV series · 3 min episodes · 18 seasons
Created by Dane Boedigheimer
The Annoying Orange is a comedic web series featuring an anthropomorphic orange who persistently irritates other food characters through puns, loud commentary, and relentless jokes. These interactions often lead to exaggerated or grim outcomes. Created by Dane Boedigheimer, the series combines live-action footage with animation, using real fruits overlaid with human facial features. It debuted on YouTube and gained widespread popularity, eventually expanding into television and consumer products.
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But the audience does desperately want to be entertained. And while you could make a modest return on a modest investment some years ago, and iterate on larger budgets if you had a reasonable amount of skill and talent, that has become very much more difficult because the internet has disrupted things.
Good side, you can now make money on sites like Youtube, and the technical barriers to entry are low, so there is enormous upside potential. Bad side, that probably means short-form lowest-common-denominator stuff. Great if you are happy churning out episodes of Annoying Orange, a disaster if your goal is to make feature films. You end up with a 'superstar economy' where a small number of films make $$$$ and a much larger number make little or nothing. This was always the case to some extent but the internet has seriously exacerbated it.
Watching one episode of The Annoying Orange has taught me that predicting what will be popular content is incredibly difficult.
In other words, there's no accounting for taste.