"We will stop showing existing annotations to viewers starting January 15, 2019. All existing annotations will be removed."
It was bad enough you discontinued annotations, but to nerf them completely from old videos? FUCK YOU, @TeamYouTube. Seriously.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737 …
There was a fantastic series of "Choose your own adventure" style videos back in the day that relied entirely on annotations. Why remove it?