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Smosh co-founders Ian Hecox (left) and Anthony 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 | 2005–present | ||||||||||
| Genre | Comedy | ||||||||||
| Subscribers | 22.7 million+ | ||||||||||
| Total views | 6.6 billion+ | ||||||||||
| Network | Defy Media | ||||||||||
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Smosh is an American sketch comedy YouTube channel created by Ian Andrew Hecox (born November 30, 1987) and Daniel Anthony Padilla (/pəˈdiːə/, commonly called Anthony, born September 16, 1987).
Anthony Padilla created a website called smosh.com in 2002. 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 August 2017[update], the Smosh channel has over 6 billion video views and 22 million subscribers, making it the 12th 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. After Padilla left Smosh to pursue his solo YouTube channel in June 2017, Hecox became the only co-founder that is currently an active member of the Smosh team.
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. Smosh has more subscribers than any other American Youtube Channel that is not a Vevo channel, or a channel owned by Youtube itself.
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". Other content creators in the pre-YouTube era would also upload videos to smosh.com, including future YouTuber TomSka. 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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