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The annoying orange phenomenon

Posted by Clare Curran on August 1st, 2010

A bit of light relief. Also a slightly scary insight into how an odd and crazy idea can become a phenomenon.

This is what the ten year olds are watching on YouTube. Goodness only knows who the rest of the dedicated audience is. Maybe it’ll be you!

Annoying Orange is a comedy web series created by Dane Boedigheimer, under the name “daneboe.” By June 2010, it had amassed over 137 million views on YouTube. Starting on January 11, 2010, the Annoying Orange got his own YouTube channel, and as of July 13, 2010 is currently ranked as the 15th most subscribed channel of all time.

This one is called Back to the fruiture.