Anthony Padilla
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Hecox (left) and Padilla (right) in 2014
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| Born | Ian Andrew Hecox November 30, 1987 Sacramento County, California Daniel Anthony Padilla September 16, 1987 Sacramento County, California |
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| Origin | Carmichael, California | ||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Actors, Comedians | ||||||||||
| Website | www |
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| Channel | Smosh | ||||||||||
| Years active | 2003–2005 (Newgrounds) 2005–present (YouTube) |
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| Genre | Comedy | ||||||||||
| Subscribers | 22.5 million (7 January 2017) |
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| Total views | 6.1 billion (7 January 2017) |
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| Network | Defy Media | ||||||||||
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| Subscriber and view counts updated as of 7 January 2017. | |||||||||||
Smosh is an American web-based sketch comedy duo consisting of Ian Andrew Hecox (born November 30, 1987) and Daniel Anthony Padilla (/pəˈdiːə/, commonly called Anthony, born September 16, 1987).
Padilla began posting flash animations on Newgrounds in 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 the site. As of January 2017[update], the Smosh channel has more than 6.1 billion video views and 22.5 million subscribers, making it the 7th most subscribed channel on YouTube. The Smosh team has expanded to include others to handle animated, other language, and video gaming content videos, and the sketches have included more actors.
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.
The franchise began when Anthony Padilla built a website in 2002, smosh.com, 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". 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 the theme songs to 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.
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