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Smosh is an American sketch comedy YouTube channel created by Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla. In 2002, Padilla created a website named "smosh.com" for making flash animations, and he was later joined by Hecox. They began to post videos on Smosh's YouTube channel in the autumn of 2005 and quickly became one of the most popular channels on the site. As of June 2021, the Smosh channel has over 9.9 billion views and over 25.1 million subscribers, putting it just outside of the top 9,000 most subscribed channels on YouTube. Since 2012, the Smosh brand has expanded to consist of multiple channels, including a Spanish-language channel (ElSmosh), a channel focused on video gaming content (Smosh Games), and a variety channel (Smosh Pit). The sketches have also included more actors. Padilla left Smosh in June 2017 to pursue independent ventures. On November 6, 2018, Smosh's parent company Defy Media abruptly closed without warning. Six days later, the Smosh cast released a video announcing that production of Smosh, Smosh Pit, and Smosh Games content was still ongoing, and that existing videos would be finished and other content would be released independently by Smosh on their YouTube channels. They subsequently joined Mythical Entertainment after their company was purchased by Rhett & Link on February 22, 2019. After four years of ownership under Mythical, it was announced in June 2023 that Padilla had returned to the channel, and that he, along with Hecox, had bought the company back from Mythical Entertainment, re-establishing Smosh as an independent entity.
The duo is most notable for creating Nintendo-related content on the channel.
Channels[]
Smosh[]
Main channel.
Smosh Games[]
Gaming channel. The Smosh and Smosh Games crew play and review various Nintendo and third party games. Honest Game Trailers was previously part of Smosh until the show was moved to FANDOM.
Smosh Pit[]
Secondary channel.
SmoshCast[]
As a part of the Mythical Entertainment rebrand, a podcast titled SmoshCast was launched. Each Wednesday a new episode is released on iTunes with Ian Hecox, or occasionally Courtney Miller, hosting alongside cohosts from the Smosh crew. The channel took a hiatus in 2020, returning for one episode after on May 4, 2021, to announce Sarah Whittle's departure from Smosh.
SmoshShorts[]
"SmoshShorts" is where shorts originally uploaded in TikTok are re-uploaded in the channel.
El Smosh[]
The Spanish version of the channel.
Smosh France[]
The French version of the channel.
SmoshShorts[]
The SmoshShorts channel consists of TikTok videos re-uploaded as YouTube Shorts.
Notable Nintendo-videos made by Smosh[]
- THE LEGEND OF ZELDA RAP (based on The Legend of Zelda)
- POKEMON IN REAL LIFE! (based on the Pokémon series, mostly based on the First Pokémon Generation)
- The Pokemon Master!
- New Pokemon Crossovers!
- In the early videos, Smosh did a lip-synching of the Pokémon Theme.
- I Have Kirby Powers! (parody of the Kirby series)
- Smosh made a lot of Mario parodies.