How One Tea Channel Faked It All - Inventing Anna Oop | TRO
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- The Right Opinion: How One Tea Channel Faked It All - Inventing Anna Oop | TRO
0:00:00 - Intro
0:06:44 - Anna Oop
0:12:44 - Oops
0:19:00 - Mask Off
0:25:53 - Anna, Uncovered
0:33:48 - The Company You Keep
0:41:55 - The Real Anna Oop
0:48:03 - Faking It
0:54:35 - Inventing Anna Oop
1:03:45 - Outro
Businesses on UA-cam, whether we like it or not, they’re here to stay, and in many cases I try not to view their presence as a wholly negative feature..
It’s important to remember that one of our primary purposes as creators is to bring entertainment to those who use the platform, and if a channel can do that, whoever it’s run by, then we can broadly agree that it’s a net positive for audiences. Businesses will always occupy a realm of UA-cam and I do believe there can be a peaceful coexistence. At the same time, there will always be tension, to be honest it’s understandable why more grassroots creators feel unnerved by their presence. Businesses have so much more power and resources at their fingertips to outflank independent UA-camrs in many aspects of quality control, they can create high production pieces in a few days that would take an individual upwards of a month, bombing the algorithm with a myriad of content that often gives what many would perceive, an unfair advantage to them against the humble creator.
When market domination comes from a few large corporations, the outcome for the consumer is generally not particularly positive. It leads to less diversity in general, and more control of narratives by a select few people, and in an industry that is already prone enough to corruption, it’s anything but healthy. UA-cam was built on the notion of allowing a person to broadcast themselves without the necessary investment of a larger business so they didn’t have to dance to anyone’s tunes, and many people would like to keep it that way. Fortunately, there will always be people who will occupy these spaces regardless of their market success, but at the same time, it’s still good to have individual figures in influential positions who can represent a human aspect to content creation, and although businesses have certainly made more inroads on the platform than they used to, there will always be that window of authenticity that seems to separate many of them from the personally driven passion projects.
The truth is one thing that is hard to fabricate is that individual enthusiasm one has for a subject they cover, and although not impossible, many larger businesses simply don’t see it as a required component for success, and as channels like Looper and the rest have shown, you really don’t need that much framework on personality to succeed. In fact, avoiding building any personal image ensures that they keep any components that may change disposable, and that ultimately, control of the content is still centralised on the people who run the channel, and not those they may outsource a variety of the work to. This formula generally means that there is a boundary between more personal content, and more detached corporate presentations. However, just because there’s a rule, doesn’t mean that there aren’t exceptions, particularly in the community that we’re focusing on today.
Commentary is a genre that large corporations tend to avoid infiltrating, particularly given the aforementioned paragraph. Having a personality is almost essential to the content you’re producing, even if you’re merely presenting information, viewers expect at least a little pzazz. Audience members want to build a relationship based on trust with the person they’re listening to. How can you do that when you don’t even know if there’s a real person behind the channel? However, this doesn’t mean that there aren’t some willing to take the risk, and one subgenre of commentary knows this all too well: that being the tea community.
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TRO IS BALLEN!??!?!?!?!?
Love your channel man!
Please do Andrew Tate next!😊😊😊
Another day, another great video
how in the world is the comment older than the actual vid uptime, i am so confused.
NICE VIDEO
calling her true crime channel Anna Uncovered and not Anna Snoop is the biggest crime here
And the tea channel Anna Scoop
And toilet review channel , " Anna poop " .
And the horror channel Anna Spook
and her gastrointestinal science channel anna poop
And the pseudoscience wellness channel Anna Goop
her "tea" voice covering true crime is grating to the ears. it feels disrespectful
Her "tea" on covering true crime is already a crime itself.
The whole culture of UA-cam true crime is already so exploitative, I hate those people so much.
@@goingunder2548 I know you didn’t ask but a true crime channel that genuinely is good is BOZE VS THE WORLD :) She digs into the psychology of things, as well as not treating the killer like they’re cool or something
Casual Criminalist!! He's good too
it's like molten lead being poured into my ears.
If you told me a decade from now that this channel was the first Tea creator generated entirely by an AI, owned by an AI, to appeal to AI audience, I’d believe it
The fact that she said "Tana Mojo" doesn't help.
@@D_YellowMadness mojo is how you pronounce it though
Yeah her vioce kinda sounds like an ai vioce dunno there's something soo uncanny about it
One of the biggest red flags regarding Anna Oop's channel as an artist, was the art style of her avatar. Don't get me wrong. I don't hate this style. But u most often see it in elsa gate flashgames since it seemingly is a cheaper to produce style that is useful for cheap animation. This is also why I think Spill seems more believeable than Anna. Cause it looks home made. Most channels with these kinds of avatars start as artists that make animated story content like Jayden Animations, Or they have an artist that'll draw stills for them. But Anna seems really out of place if you compare their channel to others. it just looks like a cheap 5 minute crafts elsa gate avatar representing what the corporation thinks drama fans like, rather than an actual avi representative of a real creator. It's the thing you see on a stationary set for young girls. Not on a creators animated channel. And I think more people have to at this critically if they wanna sniff out the big corpo trojan horse. Cause some times you'll just see with an art style and character design how much that alone can actually look very corporate and fishy. when you smell a "hello fellow kids", investigate it.
As an artist, i HATE this style😂
That elsagate art style stuff is hideous
I just saw one of her videos a while back (when the makeup community was at its peak) And i honestly thought that it was made in a dollmaker, like those kids making gacha vids LMAO
for real, I swear it looks like it was ripped straight from girlsgogames or movie star planet
in all seriousness though, yeah I'm also an artist and her avatar was one of the biggest tells, it always made me feel like the channel was really... corporate? fake? I don't know what word I'm looking for but it kind of rubbed me the wrong way?
why would u care if the animation is cheap 😭 smart people save their money
what’s crazy is that someone in that business room is larping as a teenage girl while they tweet.
😭 the only people who should larp as teenage girls are those catching child predators
W Tsumugi pfp
@@writeminded6091 I misread this initially. Yeah, there are very few situations in which that isn't creepy.
A 21 year old woman is not a teenage girl though
@@augustdreamingg yeah but she is larping a teenage girl
the difference between spill and anna oop. that while spill lied to us and is owned by a corporation they put actual time behind research to give out their opinion. anna oop is flip flopping with each topic, gets a lot of information wrong.
I mean most big channels are corporations or companies.
@@smthnew861 Is BREW better?
There is difference between someone who take a topic with journalism background and someone who not. Idk why I still prefer to watch spill videos.
I always had a feeling spill was a company so I wasn't surprised at all
@@DillonTrinhProductions brew is way more fun tbh
the moment you said she announced a third channel is where i stopped believeing it was a single person
there is NO WAY shes gonna be able to keep up by herself
I can always tell if a commentary channel is corporate if the art style looks like something you’d find on a kids dress up game.
I've given up on tea channels long ago. These people treat crimes and trauma like it's hot gossip. Kind of a bad vibe. Sure, I can enjoy someone who takes a more informal approach as long as they're respectful. That can bring some humanity into dark topics, but Anna Oop, Spill and the rest of the tea people channels jump the line into exploitation.
casual criminalist
@@Jasonmakesvideo lol I like this term
imo, they also over dramatize things. Someone unfollowing someone else, a small percentage of people disagreeing with what an influencer did, making a huge deal over something minor as if it's the worse thing ever. There's also a lot of flawed logic in their points of view too. But yes, crimes and trauma are treated as if it's hot gossip.
Honestly people who are super into true crime is such a red flag, especially most of the content around it. It becomes dehumanising and they're often quite venomous people, at least in my experience...
@@biscuit715 finally someone else who gets it!
Okay, ignoring whether Anna is real or not, I've still got one huge question...
Why go with the Elsagate Flash Game style? Just, why man?
oh my god exactly😭😭
This. Holy shit I hate it
it reminds me of the avatars from MovieStarPlanet. so bad.
For funsies
@@madisonemily4083 MY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT
Imagine if TRO Is actually also a content farm... Imagine if they're also a company... This video would be the perfect mask.
Tbh I wouldn't care. Content is top tier.
nah content farms don't like to make long videos, far too much effort
@@sparksparkleA content farm with several month gaps between uploads? Do you know what the meaning of content farm is?
if this were a content farm it'd be a pretty shit content farm
@@edef1244 tro is a hobbyist content gardener
Her true crime channel just grinds my gears. Her “tea” voice is like, UGH.
this is how men feel in general listening to most women yap lmao the whole slay sis thing is super annoying and shrill
Yall saw her mobile game ass corperate graphics and thought she was a real person?? Just listen to her voice. How was this not obvious from the start?
Because their demographic is most likely children who are mesmerized by cartoony shit
I was thinking this too
*WE* all know knew this, but the channel definitely panders to younger audience who might not be as media literate
People still aren't used to the idea of a corporate UA-cam channel pretending to be a 'real person' who decided to try and make a career out of UA-cam, so they aren't looking for the signs.
Same here, her voice sounds almost like the 5 Minute Crafts narrator :/
I feel like this is a safe place to say I absolutely hate her conglomerate’s art style. Anna May
TRUE and when they try to animate it it looks so ew..
same
elsa gate aesthetic.
@@takke9830 BYE do u think in like 10 years ppl will be nostalgic for elsagate. like do u think gen α will have elsacore
First glance I could tell it was corporate shit, hell that avatar looks like something from a bad mobile game ad.. ugh.
In case you're wondering why tea/beauty creators often do true crime, it's because 1) tea/beauty creators have almost exclusively female fanbases, as does true crime. 2) tea/drama is low-effort content because it requires little creativity. Same is true with true crime as journalists have largely done the work for these creators and they don't have to create anything, just read off what someone has written.
Nailed it
god…channels like anna oop really just serve to further prove how we’re all just living in a black mirror episode 💀
Anna Oop’s ‘yasssss slay girl’ speak is the embodiedment of Laganja Estranga’s most cringe moments in her first season on RPDR
LET'S GET SICKENING!
That's exactly what I was thinking 😂 it's very basic Stan Twitter tourist type of energy
I don't understand how anyone can listen to her without cringing.
@@PinkCatsyembrace the cringe
I kinda know some of those words
I've blocked all the annaoop channels. She's made so many mistakes in the true crime videos and they were terribly clicked baity titles it was aweful
Absolutely as a crime fan I have noticed so many errors
Same I blocked her too
Me too
Wait why block and not unsubscribe?
@@strawbbtarte You can block channels and OP may have not been subscribed in the first place. This just stops them from showing in recommend feeds
I remember watching the Anna Solves Channel for a little while when I went through a phase of listening to True Crime. She had such terrible ad placement and choice for ads, starting the video with a serious overview of the crime, then suddenly talking about a cutesy farm game or something like that, then going right back to talking about gruesome murder.
I honestly would've given this company props if they just did a face reveal with a picture of the entire staff with edited in pixel sunglasses and joints
I blocked anna after she covered the Grant Amato case. She had the title of the originally saying something like, "Creepy cam girl makes guy kill his family" or something like that. When in actuality the cam girl had 0% fault and wasn't creepy. Instead of apologizing, she only changed the title after people mass reported her videos as revenge. She never apologized for slandering Silvie or for calling her creepy.
I have her blocked and if I see her shit in the wild I still report on sight.
how do you block someone on youtube?
Cam girls deserve to be slandered and treated like garbage
I remember seeing that title and being like WTFFF (bc it was not accurate and serious clickbait)
@@honeybabes2017 You can block if you go to their page.
It isn't her fault, but the industry she is in is inherently predatory and creates situations like this. Even to resort to sending a little money you have to be a bit desperate, of course if you are taking and taking money from someone like that there is something wrong with that.
idk how people wouldn't think this is a corporate channel when the icons are literally in the style of those massproduced flashgames from the mid-late 2000's
That individual, human connection and respect is why I love channels like you and Wendigoon. The fact that you both do long as heck videos I can listen to while doing things is irrelevant...
Anna Oop channel's avatar artstyle sticks out like a sore thumb. It feels like a staple in the brainrot TikTok and similar platforms tend to infect their userbase with and it irritates me I can't find a way to describe it properly... but it's such a distinct artstyle akin to those Elsagate adjacent kid videos that trigger my flight or fight response except it's only fight and rage and I just KNOW it's a red flag.
I hate it, too. Troom troom of art styles.
Fr new it was fake as soon as I saw it
Anna Oop's avatar looks like a character that came straight out of Bratz. It's appropriate as a design for dolls, but as an avatar? Not so much.
Fiver clip art 😂
Exactly!! This is the first time I’ve seen clips of her videos and even the way she’s animated feels off to me.
Of course the channel who's avatar looked like the product of a 2012 dress up game was corporate. Of course they were.
I watched a couple of her videos back in like 2019 when I was into the beauty community, ykno before it got super nasty, and I always assumed the channel was cooperate just bc her voice is SUPER voice actor. Nobody authentic talks like that, it's definitely a "performative" voice. I never knew the channel got that big, till I saw this video, and i was like "no one knew?"
i'm actively in the drag race fandom and i totally forgot they got dragged into this... tbh you could tell something was off about butter face bc it almost verged on a parody - most of the drag race content creators i follow are, for a show that's so over-the-top, surprisingly pretty calm and down-to-earth, especially the ones that deal in the production and creation of the show
As a background actress I can definitely confirm that they often put out auditions for channels ran by companies simply looking for influencers to be the face of it
I can't be the only one who finds listening to Tea channels insufferable, right?
Does TRO count as a tea channel? He covers things people would consider ‘tea’
@@candy-stars Depends on where you draw the line between commentary and tea, or even if there is a line to be drawn.
It's cringe that the puppets are calling it "tea" now.
@@candy-stars Yes. Yes TRO is.
However he is part of the tea channels who actually do their research and dont just... Wing it
@@candy-stars I think hes the epitome of tea ..
Ayeeee thank you. UA-cam demonetised the original video a year later so I appreciate you bringing attention to it x
Anti corperate content is important. Keep doing you:)😊
That entire segment was the best advertisement money can't buy, bahahaha!!
Love you girl!!!! Love & light!! 🧿❤️
Great investigation, congratulations. It's the crux of TRO's video.
Oh hey that’s nice you commented here, makes it easier for me to follow you
Anna Oop's channel name is based on a Drag Race-related meme (Jasmine Masters' "And I oop-") that was already outdated/overused when the channel started posting content.
That + a use of AAVE that sounds forced and unnatural + her 2d character looking like a royalty free Movie star planet character immediately told me this channel was managed by someone trying to "look legit", but it all ended up looking like the "How do you do Fellow kids" meme
3:20 brew is actually a good channel to be completely honest. well researched and entertaining with funny characters and good voice overs. i honestly dont mind it at all
Same. The characters are clearly fake and they’re not trying to pretend to be real people or anything. Like the guy from brew is just an entertaining science guy.
Am i the only one, who would love seeing TRO cover illuminaughtii? 😂👀
Me. She deserved to be exposed for her shitty behavior and biased bullshit.
I think its too soon for him to do so. The dust hasn't settled in this situation, and there's still stuff going on such as Blair sending a cease and desist to wonderstruck within the last week. He tends to cover topics once the buzz and heat has died dow so that he, and his team(? If he has one) can do a proper retrospective analysis on a subject without having to worry too much about potentially missing any additional details that may be crucial to the context of the situation.
Yes, I kind of know what happened but it's kinda messy at this point.
i dont even understand the case, because i aint watching 2 hour long coverages on that case from bad ytbers
@@Planko991 In short, triangle tried to copyright lawyer gone wrong, ended up being a little shit with her friends too.
True crime is such an easy place to get problems in. It’s so easy to ignore that there are actual people involved in it and it’s so easy to forget that fact.
Oh yeah. It’s hard to do respectfully.
@@zogwort1522 I think dehumanizing is more of a problem. In true crime there are victims and victims families and some true crime channels don’t treat these victims or their families with the respect they deserve. They just treat them like content
@@zogwort1522 i disagree with this, you can do true crime and be respectful and mindful. Also id say true crime isnt a place where you go and make jokes so i dont see your point there
Id say EWU is one good example of how to handle true crime.
If one would be overly dramatic or exaggerate or blow things out of propotion i wouldnt watch and id go as far as to say most of those who watch true crime stuff dont watch it for the narrators personality but then again theres a market for everything
@@zogwort1522 wait what, how is being mindful and respectful not treating people as human beings?
If that were to be the case then my whole country with 5.5 million people are not treating people as humans since our society is build upon respect and being mindful of others
@@zogwort1522 i still dont get your point here.
To me being mindful and respectful when dealing with real life stuff and tragedies is treating people as humans.
just by looking at her sona you can tell it's extremely corporative, it resembles a shitty flash dressing game.
Yes wtf is that!!
What's most disturbing about this is, the sense of comfort in knowing this is people behind this, when we're on the cusp of an age when it could be an AI.
Was just thinking this
Man, imagine how obnoxious it's gonna be when low effort AI-generated content farms start being shotgunned out to ridiculous levels. We're already seeing the beginnings of that.
oh man we really are 💀 this is the beginning of a new war against spambotting and it's already exhausting
They already exist and they're called Reddit channels narrated by TTS. I swear those channels are just completely automated with how simple they are.
@@newxenesis I DESPISE those channels omg they are an actual plague
They already are. Pinely did a video about them.
@@newxenesiswhat year are you living in? This video literally deals with that, it was year ago. How on earth do you not know about content farm video essay channels? They're been everywhere the last year and everyones talking about them.
At the risk of dating myself, this girl's voice is the male equivalent of Perez Hilton's back when he used to do radio celebrity gossip. That really snarky, high-pitched whine of a voice that just grates on arrival
Yeah. You are too right about that.
Too young to fully understand but i know exactly what you mean just from the caricatures of him in media. It's like a Pavlovian trigger for rage.
Completely 100% right I hate Perez Hilton
I forgot about Perez Hilton until I saw this comment.
She isn’t even faking it, her damn character looks terrifying like is it just me.
Her voice is annoying
19:00 Had another great time editing this video! Easily one of the favorites I've made for TRO so far!
Always love working for ya! ❤
Cool track, mind sharing the link?
As a previously naive 40 yr old YT viewer, I made a few comments directly to “Anna” regarding the horrendous mispronunciations of victim’s names, blatant disregard for getting actual facts wrong and the mind numbingly click bait titles “she” was pushing out. One day, a genuine angel informed me that “Anna” was just the narrator. It all clicked at that point 🥴 Another great vid TRO :)
By getting facts wrong- the channel gets more interactions
That’s why I only watch haylo Hayley
true crime is a genre that can and does get a lot of deserved criticism, and ~anna solves~ is such a prime example of the worst of it. for every dreading there's a thousand anna oops, it's such a disservice to what should be approached as journalism
edit: yes I know dreading isn't perfect and body language is bullshit pseudoscience, it was just an example of a channel that puts some level of work into their content and cares enough to pay attention to who the victims were in life. always open for actually respectful recs too!
she talks in those videos like its casual gossip
@@monicaprzestrzelski4677 literally like if you're talking about someone's brutal murder as if you're chit chatting over a glass of merlot maybe rethink how that might sound to someone who knew the person and decide if that's the best course of action
dreading isn't really great either. the amount of "psychology" true crime channels that rely on psuedoscience like body language for whether people are guilty or not during interrogations is wild. all the JCS "inspired" channels have a lot of issues. there's a very good video on the channel "münecat" about it called "i debunked every "body language expert" on youtube"!
@@tori6943 i agree. even channels like that, while not necessarily disrespectful to victims, could still instill false hope with their psuedosciences, even if they are marginally correct removing any biases
the first video i ever watched from her true crime channel was about a murder in japan and she butchered the names so hard. not just mispronouncing them but straight up saying it WRONG. i blocked her in all channels ever since
I prefer a deep dive like you do here, TRO. Give me details, great editing, community support, a sense of humor not meant for the algorithm over content farms.
As with half these videos, I have no idea who these people are but gosh do I love these videos. The voice, the cool guest editors, the sarcasm. Best!
TRO Solves and TRO Gaming channels coming when? I need the TRO cinematic universe.
Found the Patreon subscriber
@@orenalbertmeisel3127 Oo what a burn.. like what?? Who cares lol
@@orenalbertmeisel3127Found the teacher's pet
@@mscookie3613why u mad ?
@@DontReadMyProfilePicture.0OK I won't
My question is, what would they do if the voice actress quits? Hire a new one and hope fans don't recognize the change?
they prolly have enough footage to ai generate her voice if they rlly wanted to
@@RONANAWAY makes sense
@@RONANAWAY The AI might not be able to properly account for inflections. Then again, the channel would have hours worth of the actress speaking
Was it discovered who the VA even was?
Maybe she's contractually obligated to help them make a smooth transition to the next VA, maybe by making one final video claiming to give the channel away to a "friend" or "sibling." Then introducing said replacement to the viewers, Blues Clues style
There's something so bizzarre about a whole ass corporate team deciding that starting Twitteresque drama is the best step forward. You just know a bunch of suits were sat in a meeting asking "what would a 21 year-old drama creator do here, ah yes, stirring the pot."
It was pretty obvious it was the same creator. It was a hidden information. It was even sponsored on her main channel...
You are the ONLY channel that consistently keeps me watching 1+hour long videos on shit and people I never even heard of, and yet I'm all into it the entire time like I know WTF is going on!!
Love this channel bro!! Never stop!!
I love your subtitling. I had no idea about this drama because i never found her/their content engaging enough or well curated for their depth.
Thanks TRO!
That's actually kind of freaky to think about, that even the channels we watch that seem to have built up from nothing can actually be puppets of corporations. I wonder how many other big channels are also secretly like this but are better at covering their tracks
Trickster tricked ? Nawhhh
you must not have heard about brew/spill/etc being industry plants either then
@@foxbuns that’s a lot more obvious
I think there's a lot of channels who aren't necessarily run *by* corporations, but present themselves as being like 'uwu I'm just one person writing and editing these videos', when they have a whole ass team of people working for them while they just read off a script they didn't even write
@@foxbuns I know about that lol I watched the video I was talking about channels that haven't been exposed yet
always had a bad feeling about her lol. first of all her whole persona (and tea channels in general) is extremely outdated and second of all i remember seeing a couple of her true crime videos and being shocked that somebody could match "makeup and true crime" levels of insensitive and exploitative. i would legit rather sit through 10 hours of nikocado avocado videos than watch a single video of hers ever again
Funnily enough, mukbang and true crime is also a genre.
That's funny "what the fuck," not funny "haha"
@@Gloomdrake I'm still not sure which is worse, mukbang true crime or makeup true crime. It's just absolutely fucking gross. Imagine if your relative had been brutally murdered and some youtuber was profiting off talking about your relative's gruesome death while looking the most bored I've ever seen a person and putting on sparkly eye shadow or shoveling noodles down their own throat.
i dropped her after she started talking like that. I can't stand people with valley accent (no offense to those living somewhere in California). They come off as condescending and vain to me that I just wanna drop kick them
I personaly like her videos, but its your opinion😛🎉
@@FrenkTheJoy It’s okay to say Stephanie Soo
I saw Paige's video when it first came out was SO shook by it that I had to make my own video about this - the way I saw it, even if I could let a handful of people know about this travesty, I felt it would be a good place to start. I'm very glad to see the topic covered by channels like yours, even if the AnnaOop channel got another year - it's borrowed time anyway. Thanks for making this video and sticking up for the smaller creators
Another top quality @TRO production!! Thanak you ALL the editors, sound, writes & of course, TRO.
7:15 friendly reminder/fun fact for everyone: this meme comes from a reaction video uploaded by drag queen Miss Jasmine Masters where she sits on her balls mid-rant
Ouch☠️☠️
LMAOOO
Lmao that's amazing, what a queen 😆😭
When i saw her on drag race i was like OMG WAIT THATS HER
I don't think people would mind corporation led UA-cam channels so long as they're upfront about it since with so many big channels having editing teams and stuff like PR and marketing, that's already becoming par for the course, it's just the whole 'How do you do fellow kids?' and 'homemade from some random college kid's bedroom' fake down to earth vibe these sort seem to tack on. That and the Anna Oop content farm is so obviously there to farm clicks and likes with just how little fact checking goes into videos that either have celeb slander or dangerous misinformation in regards to true crime content (Which is already ethically dubious in its own right) with the worst bane of drama channels being scrambling to be the first to break the story than get your facts straight.
I feel like people are now kinda just chill with the company that made SPILL and BREW bcs they were uncovered pretty early, and they just admit it, the drama happens, they continue making videos, and we just let it.
So now we look at them like, "oh, the company youtuber", then watch it, or moves on.
As long as they’re not deceptive I’m fine with them. It’s like when chain restaurants pretend to be mom and pop shops on delivery apps.
That! People loved buzzfeed, which is basically the same thing. No need to lie. I truly don’t think the people (read: children) watching these channels would even care.
I remember clicking on Anna's 'face reveal' video and thinking "wtf is this" and moving on.
New fear unlocked: The Right Opinion is also a hidden company with voice-over like Anna Oop, creating a feedback loop of these channels doing videos on each other, churning and shuffling subscribers to the next one
TRO, J Aubrey, SunnyV2 are all the same
really j aubrey no way@@jasonvargas7564
The second i heard her voice and that kind of writing it felt soulless and lacking a real person doing the work. Feels like an AI generated drama video.
If I remember correctly, something that happened with Anna Oop when the channel started, was in their community tab. In about a month or so, they started to create and promote merch with the cartoon.
It left a lot of people with a bad taste, leaving comments like "Who do you think you are?" "You are a simple tea channel a few weeks old and already merch?" They quickly deleted the posts due to backlash.
EDIT: Grammar :C
Yet another early sign that this wasn't exactly a homegrown project
Lol people get offended over nothing. Instead of supporting their merch or just ignoring them, it’s “who do you think you are? Now get back in the basement and create content for us, peasant!”
@@jasonvargas7564 ok anna
@@ReiAnikaAyanami shouldn’t you go igu igu on some pixelated squid? Or go fawn over you sand pie chan san okaygahaga forest sepuku
The editors did such a great job putting this together. Dude, you have a great team
Content farms remind me a lot of Kickstarter scams. You trick everyone and then the whole community becomes a bit more cynical. Eventually it becomes so cynical that even authentic projects/channels will be hurt directly by the cynicism.
Anna Oop is the "gurl" version of The Infographic "boi" channel. Cranked out with ridiculous regularity. I've never seen Anna, but Infographics is -painfully- inaccurate. Quite often. It spreads so many lies and inaccuracy and people love it.
Ive never seen anyone criticize the infographics show for incorrect information. What videos are they spreading inaccuracies?
@@justoverit I'm a historian by training. It's more so they puppet the most common shared stories and statistics they find. For example they might make a video on Audie Murphy, A US soldier in WW1 who charged a German position and using his 1911 side arm managed to take out 7 men with 7 shots. But modern excavations have actually uncovered closer to 14-20 spent 45. ACP cartridges and we now know he wasn't actually alone. So they parrot the legend that was once treated as fact instead of the less glamorous, but now accurate reality
@@justoverit infographics is also just incredibly smells of corporate, using some of the safest and least original contents while the narrating voice is incredibly boring to listen to, there's not a single thread of personality in that mess of a channel
@@justoverit most recently the one on The Dark Ages. It was just full of problems.
@@Matt_Historyfelt this. I just graduated with a psych degree and my college’s psych major was very research and data-focused. The vast majority of psych content online is so poorly-researched and poorly communicated that it’s basically disinformation. Drives me crazy.
I unsubbed to her when she made a missing girl in my area’s case all about the lana del ray shirt she was wearing 🤦🏼♀️ she was killed in a dui.
For anyone intrigued- her name was Kiley Rodney. Fucked with me because my name is Kylie and I live about an hour from where she went missing from.
@@Kyliedawn13that sounds horrible
@@CharlesRoger893 yeah unsub from her she’s an insensitive content farm
This kinda reminds me of AI art and AI writing. I mean what is really the point of art if its created by a mindless machine. The reason why we love art, movies, entertainment videos is because they are made by people just like us, with their unique experiences and views. I feel like in this world and age we really experience a lot of loneliness and disconnection with others, that is why these online personalities are so important to us. This parasocial relationship makes us at least a bit less lonely in our daily lives. When I watch reaction/review videos it feels like I am talking to a friend... it's comforting... but what is a point if behind it there is just a company that wants me to believe that there is a real person behind this :/
THANK YOU FOR THIS !! I’ve always wondered and even tried snooping myself to see if these accounts were all the same person or just others recreating the account lol
I’m so confused how I’ve watched tea, true crime, and commentary channels for years and have never heard of Anna Opp, but I shall be watching the whole video
Damn, I want your algorithm
same here!
Same!! I've NEVER come across any of "her" channels.
Same but isn't it a blessing that we havent😅😂
Same. Though I’ve been out of the loop for a little while.
This makes me feel like my suspicions about other channels aren’t so unfounded. Even down to stoking fake beef.
You have no idea.
thats how i felt about onision and social repose
both of their dramas felt too much LIKE internet drama to be real to me, more so social repose's than onision's
i've been wary of all internet drama since
I suspect of every channel.
Imagine if The Right Opinion was one of them
@Inchiki Quackithy right?! Literally what I thought minutes into this video, "like oky but what if"👀
Honestly I wouldn’t blink twice at the thought that this channel is set up in an identical format to Anna
I'm genuinely shocked nobody realised the channel was fake; they scream cooperate boomers trying to be a relatable gen-z
This was really eye-opening and oddly interesting because we kinda never notice the rate at which those channels mass produce videos, until someone like TRO points it out.
Rotten mango Stephanie su. She posts like an 1hr long vid everyday on true crime, movies, reddit stories or vlogs.
@@whitneyhenry5755 stepanie's vids are super interesting tho. i would genuinely not care if she had affiliations with a corporation as long as she wasn't stealing other people's content. idek
Have i ever heard of anna oop? Nope
Will i still watch this? Yep
Same
I never even heard of a content farm before 🤷♂️
@@PuffKitty You've probably unknowingly seen some though. Like WatchMojo, MsMojo, Bright Idea, & My Life Animated.
Never heard of or seen Anna Oop before, but let me say, the instant I saw the art/character, I was immediately uncomfortable because it reminds me so much of all those disturbing Elsagate things
Thanks everyone for another great video. ...Poor TRO, you sound depressed, and I think I'll start to feel it, too, based on how things are going. Thanks for keeping us informed.
The fact that Anna Oop basically stole her name from Jasmine Masters should have been the first sign...
I've never understood this whole side of UA-cam. Just being surrounded by bullsh*t fights every day and commenting on them, often in a negative way. I can't imagine that being a fun life honestly.
Well you see... Money!
It's a lot nicer if you're not constantly surrounded by it. I'm subscribed to one tea channels who uploads every second day or sometimes less. She gives a recap on a specific drama or like with coachella and PR events recaps all the drama. Sometimes it's genuinely stupid shit but recently she spoke about a former member of a family channel who cut ties and was speaking out, really interesting. I like to stay up to date on stuff like this but some of these channels post way too much or focus on petty infights too much
@@AmeliaMastervally I used to follow 2 tea channels whose personalities I liked, wayyyy back in the day when I was more into beauty UA-cam. Because you know there's always drama there. Or at least there was like ~8 years ago. But I quickly realized that there was so much repetitive content about what was pretty much nothing, trying to be peddled as "drama" or "tea". And I was like "ohhh.. you don't actually care so much about reporting on drama as you do about making money from reporting on inconsequential things that you can dress up to sound like drama." And then pushing their merch. It's just so transparent and off putting.
exactly why i stopped keeping up w this kind of petty bs
Haven’t been watching drama in a while…glad I’m still subscribed and seeing good content from u
Amazing and informative video as always … also I stan the 4 hour videos!
I think we're only a couple years out from a massive drama where it is revealed that an extremely popular channel was made almost entirely by an ai. Like, maybe the only thing done by a human is a voice actor to read scripts.
My bf and I last night were discussing the possibility that channels like SunnyV2 are AI scripted/voiced
Considering how quickly they pump out content and with chatGPT it’s a possibility especially with time
AI is starting to make more and more realistic auto generated voices
@sv_cheats420 sunny shows his face in his old videos. A lot of youtubers hire script writers or editors when they grow their channels
Why would it be drama? 🙄 you guys start getting offended by the weirdest things. How about you just appreciate that you’re getting entertaining content for free?
@@jasonvargas7564 Depending on how the A.I is used, it's potentially a reasonable complaint.
Imagine if a UA-camr's channel blew up after uploading a video about a traumatic experience & people realized a year later, that the person, the story, & the voice were all fake.
Not only would that mean people were tricked into feeling real sympathy for someone who doesn't exist but it would also make it harder for people to believe similar stories that are actually true.
Then there's the possibility of a serious journalism channel consisting entirely of cases researched by an A.I. with no human fact checking.
On the other hand, it really doesn't matter when it's a stop motion video of Springtrap chasing The Mystery Gang.
As soon as she made the second channel, I started getting suspicious… And one of the first things I noticed was that she would make errors in her speech, that no person who spoke English as a first language would make. It seemed like she was a hired voice actress who was reading a script verbatim, even if it wasn’t exactly perfect English. As time went on, it almost seemed like she asked if she could throw in more American lingo or whatever. But especially in the first two years, it was noticeable to me.
I don’t want to be offensive and give a direct example. Lol but just little things. Like ok, f it lol… she would say things like, “He did this horrible crimes over the course of ten years.”
I’m sorry… There’s no way you can get me to believe that you’re smart enough to simultaneously run three channels single-handedly but you don’t know How to properly use the language you speak natively?
No. Doesn’t make sense.
But like I said, it did start getting better as time went on, so I don’t know if they saw people like me, mentioning it in the comments and then asked her to run over it or if they hired an editor or what…
It very much sounded like someone trying to impersonate an American teenager or young adult more than it was actually one. But who also spoke (fluent but not perfect) ESL. And I know that obviously the voice is a young person… but like I said, especially in the oldest videos, it just didn’t fit.
what's wrong with “He did this horrible crimes over the course of ten years.” ?? sorry i am not a native speaker so i don't know
@@dinariddle1696 "This" is present tense, meaning that the crimes would have had to be currently committed to use "This". The correct grammar would be "He did these horrible crimes over the course of ten years" which is still a little clunky as a sentence but grammatically correct!
@@sweetsour8225 thank you for explaining!
Hm
First time seeing your content and I’m hooked, especially with the promise reprise at the outro🤩
Her vibe felt so forced 💀 like it felt so fake. I was never able to watch her because her voice was so irritating to me
I used to watch her videos, not religiously or anything, but pretty often.
I noticed strange grammatical and pronunciation errors, errors in reporting where she misattributed actions to the wrong person in a story, factual errors, etc. it would snag my brain, it made no sense! She would get it right in one part of the video just to mess it up later, like it was AI script reading from a lazy writer.
When she went into true crime, though?!? At first, I figured I’d watch her. Bite sized videos on subjects I already watch? Why not? The errors increased, when they should have decreased, considering that these are REAL PEOPLE with real families who I’ve seen show up in comment sections quite a few times. Not only did the errors increase, but she was SO disrespectful of some of the victims! Sharing the most morbid details with language that gave me a visceral reaction. I physically recoiled, and I’m not even exaggerating.
Thumbnails and titles that reduced victims to the worst detail of the worst act that ever happened to them. Her videos started to make me sick to my stomach.
Then I heard she was just a script reader to a content farm, which somehow made everything even worse. Not only did I quit watching, I started actively avoiding. When just listening while working, I used to let videos just play, listening sometimes a little closer, sometimes it’s reduced to background noise. I hear her voice and she is literally the ONLY creator that I will go out of my way to turn off.
She either sold her soul or she sucked as a person to begin with. Even if someone else is writing the scripts, which seems to be the case, she reads them out with GLEE, never trying to soften the blow by changing the wording, or anything. I’d argue she seems to do the opposite, and if she makes any changes, it’s to ADD shock value, at the expense of the victim’s and their families’ dignity.
The people behind this awful content are downright evil. They know what they’re doing, and they lean into it.
as a person who's worked with content farms (albeit for extremely short time) i think you might be overestimating the power and control of outsourced talents. a lot of people in these fields are just poor, with no proper connection nor background/experience to land better gigs much less argue with our employers when we _do_ get gigs.
maybe the VA _did_ editorialise to make it more shocking or whatever, and the employers simply liked that approach and greenlit it. but the possibility of the VA being _directed_ to do that specifically, is just as high if not likelier. personal opinions be damned; we're all just trying to survive.
if you want to call anyone evil, reserve it for the ones calling the shots and leave the people at the bottom of the food chain alone. "the people doing it know what they were doing." sure did. not like theres a lot other options though.
@@mophead_xu Why not blame all of them?
I can’t with the phony “hey girl” voice. It feels like she’s about to tell me about an amazing business opportunity.
Her voice genuinely sounds like she practices the tik tok robot girl voice daily
Checkin' on TRO and once again, we receive another fantastic video. Many, many thanks TRO for the awesome content. 🤗💜
it's always a good day when The Right Opinion drops a video
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@@sxmbxdy *(^o^)/*
True indeed
@@sxmbxdy Do you not like TRO, or are you just having a bad day? 😂
I've never heard of any of these channels and was hoping that there was community drama around tea the drink.
😂😂
I don't even know what a Tea channel is. We're both winners.
I love this. This was my reaction too the first few times I heard about tea- why is everyone talking about tea? I wonder what's controversial about it... 🤔🤔
Lol we used to say “spill the beans” in my day, now it’s “spill the tea”. I giggle thinking about calling these “beans channels” hahaha
@@EggGorlComics I'm totally down with bean channels
“And it worked”
*me subbed to all of Anna’s channels* damn
Ngl the anna oop character looks like one of those doctor 'girl' games(the gross ones with, like, elsa) and snapchat bitmoji thing
Aw fuck, I had NOT been expecting to hear Techno's statement again- hope he's resting well 🐷❤️
Heartbreaking
Babe wake up, tro posted about something I had zero inkling of prior!
(Thanks for being quite an enjoyable content creator tro! I enjoy my fair share of drama docs cuz they make great background noise for the 'ol ADHD brain. But your pieces are oftentimes my favorite because you do them so well. They're solid, well put together, and I have zero issue believing that this vid won't be the same. Keep it up with being the [at least my] favorite british docu-man! Have a lovely day, and drink a cup of tea for me. I've not the slightest clue how to make tea palatable. I supposed to quote a certain someone, I can only make hot leaf juice.)
i love your vids and takes on these sort of topics and have been following you since 2019/2020
I just watched an hour long video about a channel I’ve never heard of from a channel I’ve never heard of. Well done sir, new subscriber.
Thanks! for always doing this long form content.
10:18 As a timeless artist once said, and I think this applies to manufactured channels like hers, "Bold and Brash? More like belongs in the trash!".
Is mayonnaise an instrument
I have left at least one comment on an Anna true crime video talking about how this persona had to be fake. There were too many times where the video would feature multiple new clips of people saying the victim's name, only for "Anna" to completely mispronounce it. It was so poorly acted.
This video is satisfying.
I like Anna's subject topics and when they're good, they're good. But she mispronounces and gets information incorrect all of the time. She just did the Idaho murders and there's so much information and whoever the narrator is, she makes no attempt to learn how to say a name. As a true crime creator myself, I use multiple sources including newspaper archives to make sure I'm accurate as possible. And if I can't say the name correctly, I put a note that I tried my best to get the names correctly. I think that Anna solves releases so many videos throughout the week, that they're only using 1 or 2 sources without fact checking to pump out the videos faster.
Not related to the content but I really really enjoyed the Windows XP inspired editing in one of the segments! I truly hadn’t seen that before, it’s very well done. Hoping to see this editor and style make a return in future videos ❤ thanks TRO
My number one rule of UA-cam: never watch a channel with “tea” or “spill” in their name. Watch people like TRO who actually do research and give a damn.
I mean if the tea is actually really tea then that’s different. I watch tea taste testings sometimes.
When did we switch from spilling the beans to spilling the tea, anyway?
Tea
@@Gloomdrake The Boston Tea Party
She sounds like a voice actor of 'my story animated'.
Edit: Oh...
TRO x RPDR?? On my pride? What a crossover. What reality did we shift into??