While touring Smosh’s 17,000 square foot studio, co-founder Anthony Padilla points out an old article framed on the wall that feels both poetic and ironic to read today. It’s from Time Magazine’s ...

Padilla, addressing the rift in their relationship, said that their “communications style was kind of stuck in that age of 17… When we reconnected, we both had done a lot of growing.” On a whim, one ...

Teenagers Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla were living at home in 2005, months after graduating from high school, when they began to unlock the secrets of going viral. “We had no one to hang out with and ...

One of YouTube’s oldest and most successful comedy collectives, Smosh, has been bought back by its once-estranged co-creators, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla—marking a new chapter in the brand that has ...

Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla from the trailblazing internet comedy channel Smosh join WIRED to answer their most searched questions from Google. Check out the Smosh YouTube channel as well as Anthony ...

Ian Hecox, Mari Takahashi, and Courtney Miller of Smosh answer the web's most searched questions about Smosh and themselves. Is Ian Hecox related to Abraham Lincoln? How did Mari Takahashi chip her ...

Hecox stayed, and the founders stopped speaking with each other for several years. Padilla tells Inc. that because they created Smosh so young—he was 18 and Hecox was 17—their communication styles got ...

Twenty years ago, not too long after YouTube itself launched, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla started uploading videos to the platform. What started as two teenagers trying to make each other laugh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smosh President Ian Hecox, CEO Alessandra Catanese and cast member Angela Giarratana pose together at VidCon. (Yahoo News) (Yahoo ...

Padilla and Hecox regained control of Smosh in 2023 after buying the company back from Mythical Entertainment, a turning point that restored their creative independence. Since then, they have focused ...

Creators Anthony Padilla and Ian Andrew Hecox will develop characters and situations for the comic book series. By Graeme McMillan SMOSH - H 2015 After building a popular empire of YouTube videos, ...