The actual truth is that the idiotic nature of Annoying Orange could have only been possible in a better internet era.
The lolrandom humour of current internet feels forced and insincere.
People like Smosh, Annoying Orange, Shane Dawson et al. were popular because they embodied a fun--loving, laid-back, carefree internet and an era where doing this shit would not have made you a single penny.
It is extremely tragic that every one of these characters have carried on in such way that they're all either morally corrupt, sexually degenerate, opportunistic, psychologically deranged, political abominations or all of them.
It is extremely curious, and amusing, that the only and unlikely character from that era that has actually improved and became a better person was our Null.