>the reason why I turned them off is because of a large number of uploaders who abused annotations with stupid annoying messages that added nothing to the video

>the reason why I turned them off is because of a large number of uploaders who abused annotations with stupid annoying messages that added nothing to the video. Same here, 99% of the time it's just a big annotation that covers the whole video that says something like "click here for my latest viral video" or "get [brand name] shoes 50% off" and so on.