Smosh - Wikipedia. Smosh. Smosh founders Ian Hecox (left) and Anthony Padilla (right) in 2.
Personal information. Born. Ian Andrew Hecox[1](1. November 3. 0, 1. Sacramento County, California. Daniel Anthony Padilla[2](1.
September 1. 6, 1. Sacramento County, California. Origin. Carmichael, California[3]Nationality. American. Occupation.
Created by Ian Hecox, Anthony Padilla, Joe Bereta. With Ian Hecox, Anthony Padilla, Shayne Topp, Olivia Sui. Two hilarious guys put on different sketch comedy.
Actors, Comedians. Websitewww. smosh.
Anthony Padilla is leaving Smosh, the comedy group he formed 11 years ago as a YouTube channel with his buddy Ian Hecox. Jillian Nelson, Actress: Just Go with It. Jillian Nelson is an actress, known for Just Go with It (2011), Smosh: The Movie (2015) and 1313: Giant Killer Bees! (2011).
You. Tube information. Channel. Years active. Genre. Comedy. Subscribers.
Total views. 6. 6 billion+Network. Defy Media. Subscriber and view counts updated as of August 7, 2. Smosh[4] is an American sketch comedy.
You. Tube channel created by Ian Andrew Hecox (born November 3. Daniel Anthony Padilla (; born September 1. Anthony Padilla created a website called smosh. He was later joined by his friend Ian Hecox. Soon afterward, they began to post videos on You.
Tube in the autumn of 2. As of August 2. 01. Smosh channel has over 6 billion video views and 2. You. Tube.[5] 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 You.
Tube channel in June 2. 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 You. Tube channel. The first period spanned from May to June 2.
April 2. 00. 7 to September 2. January to August 2. Smosh has more subscribers than any other American Youtube Channel that is not a Vevo channel, or a channel owned by Youtube itself.
History. Formation and Pokémon Theme Music Video: 2. The franchise began when Anthony Padilla built a website in 2.
Flash animations. He has stated that the name Smosh came from an incident where he mistook a friend explaining a mosh pit as a "smosh pit".[1. Other content creators in the pre- You. Tube era would also upload videos to smosh.
You. Tuber Tom. Ska. Later, his friend, Ian Hecox, joined the venture. Padilla and Hecox first met in their sixth grade science class. They became friends, and quickly discovered their knack for comedy. In 2. 00. 5, they joined You.
Tube and made several videos together, lip syncing the theme songs to Mortal Kombat, Power Rangers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. At first, these videos were not intended to be posted online, but after they sent them to their friends, they started a You.
Tube channel.[1. 0]One of Smosh's earliest videos, "Pokémon Theme Music Video," was released on November 2. It followed the same style as their other earlier videos, featuring the duo lip- synching the original English theme song for the Pokémon anime. However, the video instantly became much more popular than any of their other videos; over the course of its lifetime, it gained over 2. You. Tube at that time.[1. It held that title until it was dethroned by Judson Laipply's "Evolution of Dance".
It was later removed for copyright. The success of their Pokémon video and other videos led Smosh to be featured in the "Person of the Year: You" issue of Time Magazine, published December 1. Time. com.[1. 3] In March 2. Andii. 20. 00 (now renamed as John) re- uploaded the original Pokémon video; it has over 1. Watch Trading Places Online.
October 2. 01. 6[update].[1. Due to the channel's continued success, and Smosh's partnership with You. Tube, the two recreated the video in November 2. The Pokémon Company taking down the Pokémon theme video.[1.
You. Tube success: 2. Over the course of the next few years, Smosh began to diversify. They started making short You. Tube skits, such as their annual video series Food Battle[1. That Damn Neighbor.
Smosh continued to grow in popularity and became one of the most subscribed channels on You. Tube.[1. 8] In 2.
Smosh prepared a massive redesign of Smosh. In January 2. 01. Smosh launched the "Smosh Pit" feature, a blog that consists of various pieces of pop- culture trivia, and written comedy.
In addition, 2. 01. Smosh- based web series: Ian Is Bored, which started as a collection of comedic videos by Hecox, but then turned into both Hecox and Padilla making vlog like videos, and renamed Smosh Is Bored; Ask Charlie, where people ask Charlie, from their January 2. Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig video, random questions; and Lunchtime with Smosh, a comedy series featuring Smosh getting and eating food from various places, and answering Twitter questions from their fans on Twitter. Some of Smosh's most popular video series include Pokémon in Real Life and If ____ Was Real.[1.
Also in early 2. 01. Smosh created the "i. Shut Up App" for Android phones as part of a Google sponsorship; it eventually made its way to the i. Tunes app store. In 2. Smosh was acquired by Alloy Digital (now Defy Media).[2. Expansion and Padilla's departure: 2.
In 2. 01. 2, the duo started three new You. Tube channels, El. Smosh, with Smosh videos dubbed in Spanish, Shut Up!
Cartoons, with various animated videos, and Smosh Games, with gaming- related content hosted alongside Mari Takahashi, David "Lasercorn" Moss, Matthew Sohinki, and Joshua "Jovenshire" Ovenshire.[1. Some of Smosh's most popular videos are video- game themed music videos.[2. These songs (along with other original songs) have been released in 4 albums to date – Sexy Album (2. If Music Were Real (2. Smoshtastic (2. 01. The Sweet Sound of Smosh (2.
In January 2. 01. Smosh channel surpassed Ray William Johnson in subscribers.[2. Smosh released Super Head Esploder X, a video game for i.
Pads, i. Phones, and i. Pods, in February 2. July 2. 01. 3 started an Indiegogo campaign for an i. OS and PC game, Food Battle: The Game.[3. Hecox and Padilla raised $2. Food Battle series. Smosh donated 1. 0% of the funds to three charities[3.
November 2. 01. 4, as well as releasing the game. In February 2. 01. Smosh released a mobile app to access Smosh videos and other content from their website,[3. Xbox One app.[3. 5] Later in 2. Smosh France became an official Smosh channel.[3. In March 2. 01. 5, Smosh re- launched the Smosh Games Alliance, a multi- channel network where fans join to enjoy network benefits in exchange for a percentage of the ad revenue.[3.
In 2. 01. 5, the duo announced Noah Grossman, Keith Leak II, Olivia Sui,[3. Courtney Miller, and Shayne Topp,[3.
Smosh videos. A sketch series, called Every (Blank) Ever, has been released every two weeks since May 2. In January 2. 01. Smosh channel. Part Timers is a comedy- drama which takes place at a fictional children's arcade and pizza place called Pork E. Pine’s, which takes inspiration from Hecox's first job at Chuck E.