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Forgot your password? Retrieve it. Abbreviation » Term. Term » Abbreviation. Word in Term. Term » Abbr. Filter by: Select category from list Anthony Padilla created a website called smosh. He was later joined by his friend Ian Hecox. Soon afterward, they began to post videos on YouTube in the autumn of and became one of the most popular channels on the site. As of January , the Smosh channel has over 7 billion video views and over 23 million subscribers, making it the 28th most subscribed channel on YouTube.
The Smosh team has expanded to include others to handle animated, other language, and video gaming content videos, and the sketches have included more actors. After Padilla left Smosh to pursue his solo YouTube channel in June , Hecox became the only co-founder that is currently an active member of the Smosh team.
The Smosh channel has experienced three different spans as the most subscribed YouTube channel. The first period spanned from May to June , the second spanned from April to September , and the third span lasted from January to August Notify me of new comments via email.
Cancel Report. Shogakukan Productions Co. All of this publicity made Smosh become the most subscribed channel on YouTube with nearly 3, subscribers however they were shortly surpassed by Judison Liapply. The duo soon stopped making music videos as often and moved onto comical 'episodes' which would become what they are most famous for. These started off with short videos such as Dolls and Stranded.
But later on, they turned to full minute long skits and shows. The plots of these episodes would be about anything, from Ian's birthday to Disney movies. Due to this, the comedy channel would become the most subscribed twice more, throughout to On August 21, , they held their first ever live stream which was meant to help donation for Food Battle: The Game.
This gave Smosh the chance to have even more elaborate and detailed skits. After the addition of the five regular cast members, previous Smosh actors such as Lee Eisenhower , Travis Zeiler , Melissa Melancon and Brittni Barger were phased out. This has made Ian participate in more videos again along with their videos usually being longer skits, with more detailed plots and an older audience aim now. Recently, Smosh issued their first game show on the channel where it features other YouTubers.
Over their twelve years on YouTube, Smosh has expanded from a single channel of two teenagers making short sketches into a brand with a full cast, five official channels, multiple awards and nominations, various video games and merchandise, a fully scripted series, one YouTube Premium film and one theatrical film.
Most of their videos are inappropriate, but are rated green in the age and content holder. A few of them have been flagged, such as " How to Hide a Boner in Public! Both of those videos can be viewed at Smosh. Smosh sometimes makes episodic videos like " I Lost My Hair! Since , Smosh has released a game show on their channel titled "You Posted That? This trend still continues along with Smosh's content starting to feature less cursing and offensive jokes.
Smosh videos have been upgrading in content and quality since their debut in Usually, it will take about 2 weeks to make a complex minute long Smosh video, with the filming, editing, and producing. In an interview, Anthony said that it didn't take much work to come up with a video idea. The first thing they do is think of 4 or 5 different ideas, and discuss them.
After the video idea is decided, they think about who will do what and when. In the same interview, Ian said that he's the one who comes up with most of the ideas, and Anthony extends them. As part of the process, Ian said he would edit for a few hours before confronting Anthony to discuss it. When they found a video idea they both decided on, they would start working on a script to go with it.
Anthony said when it came time to shoot the video, they would collect some friends and producers that would make sure to get the properties and location for it. When they're writing, they try not to make the ideas too complex because it's a lot of work to find certain locations, and they have to shoot every week. Ian said that the process of producing a single video is never start-to-finish, but gradual.
While Ian is writing, Anthony is editing a video that was filmed 2 weeks ago. Anthony was usually the one who chooses the clips to be added on to the video with the help of their Professional Editor that guides him. Then Ian would go in and edit the bloopers and extra components on his own. Since then, Smosh has built a production crew that helps them out with their video ideas from plot, script, scenery and props, and about everything that comes out of the video.
Ian and Anthony said in an interview that they usually put out ideas that they find funny and hope that their audience finds them funny too. Then the Smosh squad or Smosh crew expands them, sometimes even makes them. Due to the abundance of people these days, it takes much less time to think of an idea, make the video and edit it. These are reasons that influenced Anthony's decision to leave Smosh because the presence of a production crew and being owned by a company made his creative ideas have to "go through a filter".
Frequent comments, especially after the departure of Anthony, state they dislike the direction Smosh is going in and find Smosh's older style videos more creative and entertaining.
On June 14, , Anthony left Smosh to become an independent creator on his own channel AnthonyPadilla. He explains in a video on his channel that he felt like since Smosh was now a brand owned by a company all his creative decisions had to go "through a filter". In a reaction video uploaded by Lasercorn a few hours later, he explained that he expected Ian to see what all he could get out of the Smosh Squad and that Smosh will continue on just fine comparing it to how Saturday Night Live SNL is.
A year after his departure, Smosh dropped from the eighth to the twenty-third most subscribed YouTube channel. On November 7, , various members of Smosh, past and present, confirmed that Defy Media , Smosh's parent company, was shutting down with no prior warning. According to Anthony [1] and Jovenshire , more than eighty people lost their jobs, including the entirety of the Smosh Productions team. Lasercorn uploaded videos on the subject the day before and just afterwards , and Joven uploaded an unedited vlog hours after the announcement, in which he revealed that the channels would not be deleted and all content would still be available to rewatch, but that all of them would be "going dark" - meaning that all video production would cease indefinitely.
There were mixed messages regarding the future of Smosh. Joven referred to his time in Smosh in the past tense, while confirming that he wanted to continue making videos with the other Smosh members and assuring his viewers that they would always be "a family".
The idea that Smosh was closing down permanently was initially somewhat reinforced by Anthony, Mari [2] , Damien [3] , Matt Raub [4] and Kristina Nikolic [5]. However, Ian , arguably the lead authority at the time, stated clearly that he was going to try and keep Smosh together and that he was working on finding a new company to buy the brand [6] [7].
Wes backed this up, encouraging fans to "keep their fingers crossed" [8] , and others such as Ryan Todd , Lasercorn, Boze [9] , Josh Mattingly [10] and the entirety of the Smosh Squad Shayne , Courtney , Noah , Olivia and Keith declared in various ways that they hoped they'd be working together as a company again soon. Additionally, Flitz finally broke a long-term silence on his status with Smosh, revealing that he also hoped they would continue - and that he could become a full-time member again [11].
Many Smosh members, in both the cast and crew, took the shutdown as an opportunity to declare how much they loved each other and how much they'd enjoyed being a part of Smosh. Anthony, Lasercorn and Flitz all contributed to this, despite no longer being official members. Almost everyone confirmed that they think of each other as family, and that whatever happens they would always care about each other and try to make new content together. In addition to the company-wide response to the shutdown, fans of Smosh became extremely vocal about Defy Media and the effect it had had on Smosh.
Widespread and obvious support for the channels began spreading out over various platforms, and despite the ongoing perception that Smosh had lost its appeal, long-time, recent and former viewers all paid open respect to Smosh and expressed their sadness at the shutdown, responding well to Ian's insistence that Smosh would soon find a new home.
Many fans claimed that they would willingly donate money to keep the channels going [12] , and stated that YouTube "would not be the same" without Smosh and that they hoped everything would come together soon.
Many also saw the break with Defy Media, acknowledged to be a controlling, money-orientated corporation, as a positive development: there was widespread hope that cancelled shows such as Lunchtime With Smosh and Smosh is Bored would return, that Smosh itself would have more say on what and when it uploaded, and even some who hoped that Anthony would return.
Furthermore, some other YouTubers also voiced their opinions regarding the matter. Lisa Schwartz, who goes by her YouTube name Lisbug, commented that "I had to find out they were closing via a Tubefilter article.
Not even a call or a heads up. Blinded and without pay. On November 12, , a video entitled Smosh is Homeless was suddenly uploaded to the Smosh main channel though Jovenshire had mentioned it in an Instagram live stream the day before. The video featured Ian , Boze , Damien and the Smosh Squad , and Ian revealed that he had unexpectedly been given access to all the Smosh channels, and that despite the fact that Smosh was now functioning without either a parent company or a production team, they would actively try to continue uploading pre-filmed videos themselves.
He also stated that as long as they had access to the channels, they would be trying to create new independent videos for them; Ian kept this promise, as he and the Squad came together to film new content for both Smosh and Smosh Pit , using Ian's house as a set for the videos.
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