Smosh
{{Infobox Internet celebrity [Owned by: Kenneth John G. Jaen]
| members = smosh
| image = Smosh_photo.jpg
| imagesize = 300px
| birthname = Ian Andrew Hecox
Anthony Padilla
| birthdate = November 11, 1987 (Hecox), September 16, 1987 (Padilla)
| location = 
Carmichael, California, United States
| period active = November 25, 2005-present
| host service = YouTube, LiveVideo (former)
| genre = Comedy
| homepage = Smosh.com
}}
Smosh is a video-creating duo composed of friends Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox who have attained fame by auto-refreshing videos posted to YouTube. As of September 2007, Smosh is the most subscribed channel of all time on YouTube, with over 162,000 subscribers, 61,000 more than second place.[1] Smosh's videos have been viewed by millions of people and have appeared on mainstream television. Padilla and Hecox both attend American River College and live in Carmichael, California, a suburb of Sacramento.
Smosh.com
Smosh.com began in mid-2002 as a free forum for a group of high school friends in Carmichael, California. The forum now has over 90,000 members. As an extra for smosh.com members, extra videos can be viewed, showing off bloopers and commentary from Smosh. The website also offers high-quality versions of the videos. Anthony released Flash videos made by him on the Smosh website, until September 2006 when smosh.com collapsed from a hard drive failure causing all accounts to be deleted along with the flash videos.
Video distribution
Smosh releases their videos on YouTube as well as their own website, smosh.com. (In November 2006 until March 2007, Smosh's videos were "powered by livevideo.com". During that period, Smosh was on a contract to release two videos per month. Sixteen Smosh videos are on livevideo.com.)
YouTube video chronology
2005
| Title | Release date | Length | Notes | "Shut up!" Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. "Power Rangers Theme" | August* | 1:06 | First video released. Third most viewed video, with over 3 million views. | |
| 2. "Mortal Kombat Theme" | September* | 3:20 | Smosh's current most viewed video, with over 10 million views on YouTube, as of August 2007. | |
| 3. "The Epic Battle: Jesus vs Cyborg Satan" | October* | 7:30 | First scripted video. | |
| 4. "Pokémon Theme" | November 28 | 3:14 | Second most viewed video on YouTube at over 24,000,000 views, but was removed. See below. Smosh made a commentary for this video that can be seen in the Extras on Smosh.com |
(*) Were released to Youtube on November 19, 2005, but were created in the specified months.
2006
| Title | Release date | Length | Notes | "Shut Up" Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme" | January 25 | 3:05 | First video filmed outside of Padilla's bedroom. A preview for this video is on Smosh's YouTube channel. | |
| 6. "Battleship" | February 8 | 3:07 | ||
| 8. "Smosh Short 1: Dolls" | April 25 | 0:59 | ||
| 9. "The California Stereotype Experiment" | June 7 | 5:07 | First video to have extra cast. | (First "Shut Up!" Intro) The OC theme song. |
| 10. "Boxman" | June 25 | 5:19 | First original music video. Bloopers for "Boxman" can be seen in the Extras on Smosh.com | "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and child laughing |
| 11. "Smosh Short 2: Stranded" | August 23 | 2:14 | Winner of the YouTube award for Best Comedy Video of 2006. | Seagulls |
| 12. "The Best Car EVER" | September 24 | 4:24 | Car Starting | |
| 13. "Food Battle 2006" | October 4 | 7:47 | Longest video. Introduced the falling Smosh logo in the intro. First Smosh video filmed at Ian's house. | "That's a very good sandwich" |
| 14. "That Damn Neighbor" | November 4 | 2:44 | after this you see "that damn neighbor" sitting down and holding the pink flamingo | Harmonica Playing |
| 15. "Frankie Rogers Is James Bond" | November 19 | 2:17 | ||
| 16. "How Not to Make a First Impression" | December 4 | 2:15 | Made for Logitech's "How Not To contest," which was hosted by Smosh. | |
| 17. "How Not to Act on a First Date" | December 4 | 3:18 | Made for Logitech's "How Not To contest," which was hosted by Smosh. | |
| 18. "Feet for Hands" | December 13 | 2:43 | ||
| 19. "Boxman's Christmas" | December 19 | 3:12 | ||
| 20. "New Year's Eve PSA" | December 30 | 1:32 |
2007
| Title | Release date | Length | Notes | "Shut Up!" Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21. "Three Wishes" | January 6 | 2:41 | First video to use special effects. | "Hey whatever happened to that 'Shut Up' thing at the beginning of the Smosh videos?" |
| 22. "Axe Murderer" | January 19 | 2:39 | Horror sound effect | |
| 23. "Easy Step" | February 3 | 2:25 | "Order now! Order now! Order now! Order now! | |
| 24. "Sparky Goes to a Club" | February 18 | 3:53 | First video with illustrations. Introduced "smosh.com" below "Smosh Productions" in the intro. | Dogs Barking |
| 25. "Spiderman, Spiderman" | March 2 | 0:53 | Shortest video. | "Spiderman, Spiderman, he is a spider-" |
| 26. "License Test" | March 16 | 4:07 | Person laughing | |
| 27. "April First" | March 31 | 2:53 | Piano music | |
| 28. "Anthony Gets a Haircut" | April 7 | 5:11 | Introduces Anthony's haircut cut by Ian. | "Jeese, you guys need to cut your little, freakin', emo, hippy hair" |
| 29. "Handshake" | April 21 | 1:20 | "-But I didn't say anything!" | |
| 30. "Hardcore Max" | May 7 | 2:41 | Introduces Smosh's 'logo background' in the intro. | "Hey! Kid, put your helmet on! You don't want to hurt your little nogin do ya?" |
| 31. "Food Battle 2007" | May 29 | 5:34 | Extras for "Food Battle 2007" can be see in the Extras of Smosh.com | "Oh, yeah that's a very good stick of butter" |
| 32. "Transformers Rap" | June 15 | 3:28 | Featured on TRL. Bloopers for "Transformers Rap" can be seen in the Extras of Smosh.com | Transformers Theme sung by Ian |
| 33. "Three Guys in a Hotel" | July 11 | 4:45 | Features thewinekone, LisaNova and Daxflame. | Crowd cheering |
| 34. "Quest for the Scooter" | August 04 | 5:00 | "Prepare, for the most ultimate race" | |
| 35. "The Assassins" | August 24 | 3:19 | First video featuring the supposed break-up of Ian and Anthony. It is also the first of their first 3 part sketch | "Noooooooooo!" |
| 36. "Replacement Needed" | August 31 | 4:49 | Second video featuring supposed break-up of Ian and Anthony. | |
| 37. "Reunited?" | September 7 | 4:42 | Third and final video featuring the supposed break up of Ian and Anthony, where Anthony and Ian reunite as Smosh. T-Bag and Phuong's video is on the Extras of Smosh.com | None, but in T-Bag and Phuong's video: "This intro is such a rip-off of Smosh's intro" |
Removed videos
Ian and Anthony have removed videos from either the Smosh website and YouTube account for various reasons.
- "The Evil Chain Letter" was one of Smosh's first videos. It made fun of internet chain letters. The video can still be found on youtube from other users.
- "Garret's Blog" was a video that mocked video bloggers. It is no longer on smosh.com or youtube.
- "I-Dawg announcement 'bout YT Awards" was a video released by Smosh to make people aware that they were nominees for the YouTube awards and to tell the viewer to vote for them. The video was only online for about a week, and was removed after voting was closed and Smosh had won.
- "Pokémon Theme" is Smosh's most famous video. In June 2007, the video was removed due to a copyright claim by the Japanese company Shogakukan Production Co. Ltd.. The video received 24,732,537 views before its removal.[2] The video can still be found on smosh.com.
IanH
Smosh's alternate account, IanH, contains videos of what Anthony and Ian do in their spare time and "submit side projects and other content not deemed worthy for the masses"[3]. Their most watched video is the original video, "A Day in the Life of Smosh", with 450,000 views as of August 2007. It is also the #55 most subscribed channel on youtube with almost 20,000 subscribers. This account includes a two part blog of Los Angeles, California, where they filmed their award winning Smosh short, "Stranded".
List of videos on IanH
| Title | Release date | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Day in the Life of Smosh | March 17, 2006 | 7:03 |
Kenneth John G. Jaen Kenneth John G. Jaen Ian Hecox Ian Hecox Anthony Padilla Anthony Padilla |