Smosh

Smosh is a comedy duo consisting of Ian Hecox (born 30 November 1987) and Anthony Padilla ( born September 16, 1987). Padilla began in early 2003 on Newgrounds to upload flash movies. Later he was joined by his friend Ian Hecox. Soon after, in the fall of 2005, they began uploading videos on YouTube. With over 17 million subscribers they are among the most subscribed YouTube channels. On May 25, 2013, it reached the first You- Tuber 10 million subscribers.

There are seven channels from Smosh on YouTube, of which five are currently active. On the canal Smosh, where both Hecox and Padilla Post skits and other videos, every Friday will be uploaded a new video. On the canal IANH, which initially was used for vlogs and other non- scripted videos, invite the two series Ian is Bored their side (Monday ), Lunchtime with Smosh ( Thursdays) and Smosh Pit Weekly ( Sundays) high. In El Smosh duo old and new episodes uploads, which have been translated into Spanish. On the canal AskCharlie, active from May 2010 to December 2011, videos of the Ask Charlie series are uploaded, in which an anthropomorphic guinea pig named Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig responded to questions posted by viewers. On AnthonyPadilla Padilla uploads vlog -like videos which appear only at very irregular intervals. In April 2012, the channel launched ShutUpCartoons. For the cartoon channel a total of 18 different series are planned so far, which will each contain 10 episodes. Since September 2012 Smosh operates another channel, SmoshGames. Play on this channel and test not only Hecox and Padilla various video games, but are caused by four other persons, supported among others Mari, moderated Smosh Pit Weekly.

History

2005-2009

At the beginning of Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla turned video in which they lip-sync nachsangen to theme songs from shows such as Mortal Kombat, Power Rangers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in playback. At first, these videos were not intended to be posted online, but after they sent them to their friends, they started a YouTube channel.

One of the first Smoshs videos, Pokemon Theme Music Video, was released in November 2005. It followed the style of the earlier videos and showed the duo as lip-sync to the original English theme song of Pokémon imitated song. The video was much better known than any other of her videos; until the time of blocking the video got 24.7 million views, making it the most watched video of his time to the whole YouTube. It retained this title for six months, but was removed by YouTube after the website a message from Shogakukan Protuctions Co., Ldt. got, which saw an infringement of copyright in the video.

The success of the Pokémon video brought Smosh this in the Person of the Year: You issue of Time Magazine, which was published on 13 December 2006, to be presented. Furthermore, it inspired them to expand their style and begin to produce videos of various genres, such as mini- skits. In March 2007, a user the original Pokémon video loaded up again named Andii2000. The video has over 15.8 million views ( in October 2012 ). Due to continued success, and Smosh 's partnership with YouTube, created the two in November 2010, a new version of the video, in which she, however, replace the text by another.

Since 2010

In January 2010, Smosh launched the Smosh Pit function, a blog that consists of various parts of pop culture. In addition, some were called to Smosh -based web series to life: Ian is bored, Mail Time with Smosh and ask Charlie.

Also created in early 2010 Smosh the iShut Up app for Android as part of a sponsorship agreement with Google and finally to the iTunes App Store.

Smosh launched on September 26, 2012 your gaming channel SmoshGames.

Since 2013

On February 15, 2013 published Smosh their second iOS app: " Super Head Esploder X.