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Entirely fine if his videos aren't to your taste, but to be fair to him he keeps his videos different. The ads are ads, but they're not just script reads; they're often actually entertaining (Also see TomSka who turns his ads into full blown short skits, often worthy of re-watches because they're just damn funny). He has a style that's actually unique, the videos are well thought out and researched, but it's definitely not everyone's style. The paper dolls are fun and have a lot of work put into them. The sets often continue from the last video and have fun continuity (IIRC in a Need for Speed video a car destroyed the cardboard house and it's been in ruins since)
There's a LOT of slop on YouTube, but I wouldn't lump Noodle into that category.
It may be a generation thing. For quite a while YouTube was about content, not presentation. You usually watched the video about something and that was all the video showed, specially because monetisation wasn't so common. Even garbage was mostly just the garbage itself (and there was lots of it, but different than now). It was a treasure chest, full of content people uploaded just because they wanted other people to see.
I guess this guy is OK for the current "standards*, but that's a very, very low bar now. I'm not criticising him in particular, but YouTube in general. It's always a shock to me when I get exposed to it, which is luckily rare.