Smosh
Template:Infobox Internet celebrity Smosh is a video-creating duo that has established fame on YouTube that consists of friends Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. As of August 2007, Smosh is the most subscribed channel of all time on YouTube, with over 154,000 subscribers, 54,000 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 city near 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 80,000 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 for download and a store selling Smosh's clothing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 non-theme video. |
| 4. "Pokémon Theme" | November 28 | 3:14 | Removed. See below. |
(*) Were released to Youtube on November 19, 2005, but were created in the specified months.
2006
| Title | Release date | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme" | January 25 | 3:05 | First video filmed outside of Padilla's bedroom. Second most viewed video, with over 5 million views. |
| 6. "Battleship" | February 8 | 3:07 | First scripted video. |
| 7. "Transformers Theme" | March 22 | 3:01 | Last theme music video. First video featuring Anthony in female clothes. |
| 8. "Smosh Short 1: Dolls" | April 25 | 0:59 | |
| 9. "The California Stereotype Experiment" | June 7 | 5:07 | Introduced the "Shut up!" intro. |
| 10. "Boxman" | June 25 | 5:19 | First original music video |
| 11. "Smosh Short 2: Stranded" | August 23 | 2:14 | Winner of the YouTube award for Best Comedy Video of 2006. |
| 12. "The Best Car EVER" | September 24 | 4:24 | |
| 13. "Food Battle 2006" | October 4 | 7:47 | Longest video. |
| 14. "That Damn Neighbor" | November 4 | 2:44 | |
| 15. "Frankie Rogers Is James Bond" | November 19 | 2:17 | Did away with the "Shut Up!" intro |
| 16. "How Not to Make a First Impression" | December 4 | 2:15 | Made for Logitech's "How Not To contest," which was hosted by Padilla and Hecox. |
| 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 Padilla and Hecox. |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21. "Three Wishes" | January 6 | 2:41 | Reintroduced the "Shut up!" intro. |
| 22. "Axe Murderer" | January 19 | 2:39 | |
| 23. "Easy Step" | February 3 | 2:25 | |
| 24. "Sparky Goes to a Club" | February 18 | 3:53 | First video with illustrations. |
| 25. "Spiderman, Spiderman" | March 2 | 0:53 | Shortest video. |
| 26. "License Test" | March 16 | 4:07 | |
| 27. "April First" | March 31 | 2:53 | |
| 28. "Anthony Gets a Haircut" | April 7 | 5:11 | Introduces Anthony's haircut cut by Ian. |
| 29. "Handshake" | April 21 | 1:20 | |
| 30. "Hardcore Max" | May 7 | 2:41 | |
| 31. "Food Battle 2007" | May 29 | 5:34 | Included two Wikipedia references |
| 32. "Transformers Rap" | June 15 | 3:28 | Featured on TRL |
| 33. "Three Guys in a Hotel" | July 11 | 4:45 | Features thewinekone, LisaNova and DaxFlame. |
| 34. "Quest for the Scooter" | August 04 | 5:00 |
Removed videos
Ian and Anthony have removed videos from either the Smosh website and YouTube account for various reasons.
- "Garret's Blog" was a video that mocked video bloggers.
- "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 over 24-million views before its removal.[2] The video can 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 426,000 views as of July 2007. It is also the #64 most subscribed channel on youtube with over 16,000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| A Day in the Life of Smosh | March 17, 2006 | 7:03 |
| Smosh Merch Commercial | March 21, 2006 | 0:13 |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh #2 | April 30, 2006 | 3:10 |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh #3 | May 12, 2006 | 2:37 |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh: L.A. Edition (Part 1 of 2) | June 11, 2006 | 9:48 |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh: L.A. Edition (Part 2 of 2) | June 11, 2006 | 8:49 |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh #4 | July 9, 2006 | 7:36 |
| Smosh promo video for Smoothie King | July 18, 2006 | 1:42 |
| The Dramatic Voice Experiment Reloaded* | July 23, 2006 | 9:09 |
| Smosh TV Interview | August 29, 2006 | 2:47 |
| SMOSH on 88SLIDE | September 26, 2006 | 1:23 |
| Goodbye Smosh Chair | October 20, 2006 | 2:55 |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh #5 | December 11, 2006 | 2:34 |
| A Day in the Life of Smosh: YouTube SF Gathering | February 17, 2007 | 9:48 |
(*) The original Dramatic Voice Experiment video was removed for legal reasons, probably for not blocking people's faces, but it was edited, then reposted as "The Dramatic Voice Experiment Reloaded."
References
External links
- Smosh's website
- Smosh's YouTube profile
- Smosh's alternate YouTube profile run for side content
- Smosh's MySpace profile
Resources
- "Smosh 'The Intertainers'" TIME Magazine
- "The first superstars of web TV" BBC News
- "Smosh Hit" The Sacramento Bee
- "Who makes short shorts? Anyone and everyone" The New York Times
- "Superstars of the Web" Interview Magazine
- "So you wanna be a director?" The Medium newspaper
- "YouTube launches its own Web stars" USA Today
- "Outrageous Video on the Tube" ABC News
- "You Tube Video Award Winners (video link)" NBC Today Show
- "You Tube Video Award Winners" CBS Early Show
- "Smosh - A quirky comedy duo turned YouTube superstars" Tilzy.TV
