Smosh

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Smosh

Hecox (left) and Padilla (right) at VidCon 2012
Born
  • Ian Andrew Hecox: (1987-11-30) November 30, 1987[1]
  • Anthony Padilla: (1987-09-16) September 16, 1987[1]
Nationality American
Occupation YouTube comedy duo, YouTube Partner
Years active 2002[2]–present
Home town Sacramento, California
Website
smosh.com

Smosh is a web-based comedy duo consisting of Ian Hecox (born November 30, 1987) and Anthony Padilla (born September 16, 1987).[3] Padilla first began posting flash movies on Newgrounds in early 2003, under the name Smosh. He was later joined by his friend Ian Hecox. Soon afterward they began to post videos on YouTube in the autumn of 2005 and became one of the most popular channels on that site. As of February 2014, the Smosh channel has more than 16 million subscribers and 2.9 billion video views.[4] The Smosh team has expanded to include others to handle animated, Spanish language, and video gaming content videos.

The Smosh channel has experienced three different spans as the most subscribed YouTube channel. The first period spanned from May to June 2006, the second spanned from April 2007 to September 2008, and the third span lasted from January to August 2013.[5][6][7]

History

Formation and Pokémon Theme Music Video: 2002–2006

The franchise began when Anthony Padilla built a website in 2002, smosh.com,[8] and made several different 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".[9] 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 2005, they joined YouTube and made several videos together, lip syncing to theme songs such as 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 YouTube channel.[9]

One of Smosh's earliest videos, "Pokémon Theme Music Video," was released in November 2005. 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 24.7 million views, becoming the most-viewed video on all of YouTube at that time.[10][11][12] It held that title for about six months until it was removed by YouTube[12]

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 13, 2006 and on Time.com.[13] In March 2007, a user named Andii2000 re-uploaded the original Pokémon video; it has over 15.2 million views as of February 2014.[14] Due to the channel's continued success, and Smosh's partnership with YouTube, the two recreated the video in November 2010, this time changing the words to be critical of The Pokémon Company taking down the Pokémon theme video.[15]

YouTube success: 2006–present

Over the course of the next few years, Smosh began to diversify. They started making short YouTube skits, such as their annual video series Food Battle[16] and That Damn Neighbor. Smosh continued to grow in popularity and became one the most subscribed channels on YouTube.[17] In 2009, Smosh prepared a massive redesign of Smosh.com, added a games section, and put extras in the video section. In January 2010, Smosh launched the "Smosh Pit" feature, a blog that consists of various pieces of pop-culture trivia, and written comedy. In addition, 2010 saw the channel launch 3 different Smosh-based web series: Ian Is Bored, which started as a collection of comedic videos by Hecox, but then turned primarily into Smosh opening fan mail segments called Mail Time with Smosh; Ask Charlie (which is an interactive series where people ask Charlie, from their January 2010 Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig video, random questions) ran from May 2010 to December 2011; 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 Pokemon in Real Life and If ____ Was Real.[18] Also in early 2010, Smosh created the "iShut Up App" for Android phones as part of a Google sponsorship; it eventually made its way to the iTunes app store. In 2011 Smosh was acquired by Alloy Digital.[12]

In 2012 the duo started three new YouTube channels, ElSmosh, with Smosh videos dubbed in Spanish, Shut Up! Cartoons, with various animated videos, and Smosh Games with gaming related content hosted alongside Mari, Lasercorn, Sohinki, and Jovenshire.[12][19][20][21][22] In 2012, Smosh was featured as guests on Ask A Naked Guy.[23] Hecox and Padilla have also provided guest voices on the machinima series Red vs. Blue.[24] Some of Smosh's most popular videos are video-game themed music videos.[25][26] These songs (along with other original songs) have been released in 4 albums to date – Sexy Album (2010), If Music Were Real (2011), Smoshtastic (2012), and The Sweet Sound of Smosh (2013). In January 2013, the Smosh channel surpassed Ray William Johnson in subscribers.[27] Smosh released Super Head Esploder X, a video game for iPads, iPhones, and iPods, in February 2013,[28][29] and in July 2013 started an Indiegogo campaign for an iOS and PC game, Food Battle: The Game.[30][31] Hecox and Padilla raised $258,777 to hire video game producers to create a game based on their characters and the foods used in their annual Food Battle series. Hecox and Padilla have stated they would donate 10% of the funds to charity.[32]

Channels

Eight Smosh-related channels exist on YouTube, though only five have scheduled content.

Smosh (youtube.com/smosh)

The base "Smosh" channel, where both Hecox and Padilla post their skits and other videos, has new videos every Friday and behind the scenes on Sundays.

Smosh 2nd Channel (youtube.com/IanH)

From "Smosh 2nd Channel" (originally named "IanH", and was used at first for vlogs and other non-scripted videos), the pair upload their side series Ian is Bored and Lunchtime with Smosh on alternating Mondays, while their associate performer Mari Takahashi releases Smosh Pit Weekly videos on Saturdays.

WatchUsLiveAndStuff (youtube.com/WatchUsLiveAndStuff)

Padilla, and his fiancée Kalel, have uploaded vlogs regularly to "WatchUsLiveAndStuff" since June 9, 2013.[33]

ElSmosh (youtube.com/ElSmosh)

On "ElSmosh", the duo uploads the Spanish version of Smosh Pit Weekly, El Smosh Pit de la Semana, and new Smosh episodes on Sundays that have been dubbed over in Spanish.

Shut Up! Cartoons (youtube.com/ShutUpCartoons)

"Shut Up! Cartoons" uploads a number of ten episode animated series, created by different animators.

Smosh Games (youtube.com/SmoshGames)

"Smosh Games" uploads numerous videos a week, consisting of Let's Plays and video game commentary shows. Padilla and Hecox appear less regularly on this channel, with hosts Mari Takahashi, David "Lasercorn" Moss, Matt Sohinki, and Joshua "Jovenshire" Ovenshire handling most hosting duties.

AnthonyPadilla (youtube.com/AnthonyPadilla)

"AnthonyPadilla", hosts vlog-like videos uploaded by Padilla.

New AskCharlie EVERY WEDNESDAY (youtube.com/AskCharlie)

"AskCharlie", active from May 2010 to December 2011, hosts videos from the Ask Charlie series, where an anthropomorphic guinea pig, named Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig, answers viewer submitted questions. The show ended with Charlie being killed off.

Schedule

Channel "Smosh" "Smosh 2nd Channel" "ElSmosh" "Shut Up! Cartoons" "Smosh Games"
Monday Ian Is Bored
Lunchtime with Smosh
(alternating weeks)		 Smosh Babies Why We're Single
Super Mari Fun Time
Tuesday Backseat Gaming
Wednesday El Smosh Pit de la Semana Gametime With Smosh
Thursday Grand Theft Smosh
Friday Smosh episode Oishi High School Battle Smosh Game Bang
Saturday Smosh Pit Weekly Top 5 Saturday
Sunday Behind the Scenes with Smosh Smosh episode I Have A Raging Bonus

Discography

Studio albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
Comedy
[34]		 US
Heat.
[34]
Sexy Album 14 —
If Music Were Real
  • Released: November 11, 2011
  • Formats: digital download
 5 26
Smoshtastic
  • Released: December 3, 2012
  • Formats: digital download
 3 27
The Sweet Sound of Smosh
  • Released: November 30, 2013
  • Formats: digital download
 4 33
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations for Smosh
Year Award Category Recipient Result
2006 2006 YouTube Awards Comedy[35][36] "Smosh Short 2: Stranded" Won
2009 2009 Webby Awards Experimental & Weird[37] "Sex Ed Rocks" Nominated
2010 2010 Webby Awards Viral[38] "If Movies Were Real" Nominated
2013 3rd Streamy Awards Best Comedy Series[39] Smosh Nominated
Audience Choice for Personality of the Year[39] Smosh Nominated
Best Animated Series[39] Oishi High School Battle Nominated
2013 Webby Awards Branded Entertainment Short Form[40] "Ultimate Assassin's Creed 3 Song" Nominated
2013 Social Star Awards Most Popular Social Show[41][42] Smosh Nominated
United States Social Media Star[43] Smosh Won

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About Us". Smosh. Retrieved October 23, 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Smosh Plays Happy Wheels (Gametime w/ Smosh)". YouTube. October 24, 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2012. 
  3. ↑ "BB Suggests: The Best of Web TV". Batch Buzz. November 13, 2009. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved November 16, 2009. 
  4. ↑ "Smosh". YouTube. Retrieved February 6, 2014. 
  5. ↑ "Most Subscribed Members - May 17, 2006". YouTube. 
  6. ↑ Heffernan, Virginia (April 26, 2007). "A Big Deal: The Run-Off on YouTube!!". The Medium. New York Times. Retrieved December 10, 2013. 
  7. ↑ Cohen, Joshua (January 12, 2013). "Smosh Passes Ray William Johnson as #1 Most Subscribed YouTube Channel". Tubefilter. Retrieved December 10, 2013. 
  8. ↑ Padilla, Anthony. "Smosh.com, 2002". Smosh. Archived from the original on November 24, 2002. Retrieved June 25, 2012. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Partners Project (March 10, 2011). "Smosh Exclusive Interview: The Partners Project Episode 13". YouTube. Retrieved December 25, 2011. 
  10. ↑ Virginia Heffernan (April 4, 2006). "Comic shorts, home on the Web". The New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2009. 
  11. ↑ "The first superstars of web TV". BBC. November 27, 2006. Retrieved July 7, 2012. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Troy Dreier. "Smosh: YouTube Gods and Unlikely Online Video Superstars". Streaming Media. Retrieved October 31, 2012. 
  13. ↑ Lev Grossman (December 16, 2006). "Smosh". Time Magazine. Retrieved July 7, 2012. 
  14. ↑ Andii2000 (March 17, 2007). "SMOSH – POKEMON THEME SONG". YouTube. Retrieved February 6, 2014. 
  15. ↑ Smosh (November 28, 2012). "Pokemon Theme Song REVENGE!". YouTube. Retrieved February 12, 2012. 
  16. ↑ Sam Gutelle (October 19, 2012). "After Three Week Long Bracket, Smosh Guys Have ‘Food Battle 2012′". Tubefilter. Retrieved October 31, 2012. 
  17. ↑ "SMOSH turns sketch comedy into cash". News10. Retrieved July 7, 2012. 
  18. ↑ Tina Amini (April 17, 2012). "It’s Silly When Video Games Try To Be Real". Kotaku. Retrieved July 7, 2012. 
  19. ↑ Matthew Manarino (April 27, 2012). "SMOSH TALKS WITH US ABOUT SHUT UP! CARTOONS". NewMediaRockStars. Retrieved June 17, 2012. 
  20. ↑ Mike Shields (June 11, 2012). "Zombie Apocalypse Spreads to YouTube Alloy Digital's new channel Shut Up Cartoons generates 20 million views in 5 weeks". Adweek. Retrieved June 17, 2012. 
  21. ↑ Todd Kushigemachi (April 13, 2012). "YouTube toon channel loads up on series". Variety. Retrieved July 7, 2012. 
  22. ↑ Smosh (September 26, 2012). "OMG! Smosh Games!". YouTube. Retrieved September 26, 2012. 
  23. ↑ Crushable Staff (July 4, 2012). "There’s Nothing More American Than Watching Ask A Naked Guy". Crushable. Retrieved July 7, 2012. 
  24. ↑ "Smosh's Official Twitter". Twitter. June 28, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2012. 
  25. ↑ Mike Kayatta (October 26, 2012). "Assassin's Creed III Rap Gives the British a Beat (Down)". Escapist Magazine. Retrieved October 31, 2012. 
  26. ↑ RawmeatCowboy (November 19, 2011). "We talk to SMOSH about their epic Legend of Zelda rap". Go Nintendo. Retrieved October 31, 2012. 
  27. ↑ "Smosh Passes Ray William Johnson as #1 Most Subscribed YouTube Channel". Ewallstreeter. January 12, 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2013. 
  28. ↑ "Smosh Super Head Esploder X". iTunes Preview. Apple Inc. May 23, 2013. Retrieved July 1, 2013. 
  29. ↑ Smosh (February 15, 2013). "Most Violent Game Ever!?". YouTube. Retrieved July 1, 2013. 
  30. ↑ "SMOSH Food Battle: THE GAME". Smosh. Retrieved July 23, 2013. 
  31. ↑ Cohen, Joshua (July 22, 2013). "Smosh Looks To Raise $250,000 On Indiegogo For 'Food Battle' Video Game". Tubefilter. Retrieved July 23, 2013. 
  32. ↑ Smosh (July 29, 2013). "Food Battle: THE GAME [Update #1]". Smosh. YouTube. Retrieved August 8, 2013. "And 10% of all the money raised during the campaign is gonna go to a charity of your guys' choice." 
  33. ↑ Anthony and Kalel (June 9, 2013). "Lady And The Tramp Kiss!". YouTube. Retrieved June 10, 2013. 
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 "Smosh > Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 9 May 2012. 
  35. ↑ YouTube Video Awards. "Best Comedy Video". YouTube. Retrieved April 10, 2013. 
  36. ↑ Coyle, Jake. "YouTube Awards announces winners". NBCNews. Retrieved April 10, 2013. 
  37. ↑ "The Webby Awards Gallery + Archive". Webby Awards. Retrieved April 10, 2013. 
  38. ↑ "The Webby Awards Gallery + Archive". Webby Awards. Retrieved April 10, 2013. 
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 "3rd Annual Nominees & Winners". Streamy Awards. Retrieved April 10, 2013. 
  40. ↑ "The Webby Awards Gallery + Archive". Webby Awards. Retrieved May 28, 2013. 
  41. ↑ "Superstars and Superfans are Connected through The Social Stars Awards 2013". shinesquad. Retrieved April 10, 2013. 
  42. ↑ "Social Star Awards 2013 Shortlist Chart". starcount. Retrieved April 10, 2013. 
  43. ↑ "Social Star Awards 2013: List of winners". The Straits Times Communities. May 23, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2013. 

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