@oldmemer0: The Annoying Orange is pure early YouTube chaos, a mix of low-budget editing, loud humor, and surreal energy that somehow became a global phenomenon. Created in 2009 by Dane Boedigheimer (aka DaneBoe), the series featured a real orange with human eyes and a mouth superimposed onto it, constantly heckling other fruits, vegetables, and random objects. His trademark? Shouting “Hey Apple! …Knife!” before his unfortunate victims met their end. What started as a one-off joke video quickly snowballed into one of the platform’s first viral series. Kids loved the goofy humor, adults cringed at the constant yelling — and the internet couldn’t stop quoting lines like “Hey Pear!” or the endless “nyeh heh heh” laugh. By the early 2010s, Annoying Orange had racked up hundreds of millions of views, spawned merch, video games, and even a full-blown Cartoon Network TV show (The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange). The appeal wasn’t about high production value — it was the perfect storm of weird, loud, and slightly cursed humor that fit the chaotic energy of early YouTube. Even today, Annoying Orange stands as a nostalgic reminder of when the internet was discovering how far dumb jokes could go — and the answer was: all the way to TV. #AnnoyingOrange #HeyApple #YouTubeClassic #2009Meme #EarlyYouTube #ViralSeries #KnifeJoke #MemeHistory #InternetClassic #HighFructoseAdventures #CursedComedy #OGYouTube #memelegend

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