Smosh
Smosh is a video-creating duo that has established fame on YouTube; friends, Anthony Padilla (born 16 September, 1987) and Ian Hecox (born 30 November, 1987). Smosh is the most subscribed channel of all time on YouTube (as of July 2007), with 130,000+ subscribers, 35,000+ more than any other channel.[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 live in Carmichael, California, a city near Sacramento.
Smosh's Pokémon Theme Music Video was one of the most viewed videos on YouTube until it was removed for copyright reasons by the Shogakukan Production Co. Ltd. (It is still available on smosh.com). It had over 24 million views.
In March 2007, Smosh won the award for "Best Comedy of 2006"[2] with the video "Smosh Short 2: Stranded" in YouTube's first ever YouTube Video Awards.
YouTube video chronology
2005
| Title | Release date | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. "Power Rangers Theme" | August* | 1:06 | |
| 2. "Mortal Kombat Theme" | September* | 3:20 | Smosh's current most viewed video, with over 9.6 million views on YouTube, as of July 2007. |
| 3. "The Epic Battle: Jesus vs Cyborg Satan" | October* | 7:30 | First non-theme video. |
| 4. "Pokémon Theme" | November 28 | 3:14 | The duo's most popular video, with over 24 million views on YouTube as of June 2007. In June 2007, the video was removed after the Japanese publisher Shogakukan Production Co. Ltd. made a copyright claim against the video, though all the fan-made translated versions were not removed. |
(*) 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. |
| 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." |
| 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 consisting of 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 | |
| 32. "Transformers Rap" | June 15 | 3:28 | |
| 33. "Three Guys in a Hotel" | July 11 | 4:45 | Features thewinekone, LisaNova and DaxFlame |
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 65,000 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.
References
External links
- Smosh's website
- Smosh's YouTube profile
- Smosh's alternate YouTube profile run for unnoficial videos
- 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
- "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