Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, the co-founders behind the formative YouTube let’s play and sketch comedy channel, Smosh, broke the internet with the surprising announcement that they bought ...

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 ...

In their first YouTube video together in seven years, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla summoned a demon to score Taylor Swift tickets. The sketch was gently absurd, infused with pop culture ...

The deal giving Hecox and Padilla a controlling interest in Smosh was “important to show that we really believe in this, we’re all in. It’s not just, like, Anthony’s back for a few videos.” ...

On Tuesday, Smosh founders Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox announced they have reunited and regained ownership of the comedy brand, which they’ll run together. This marks Padilla’s return to ...

The first one is that original Smosh member and co-founder, Anthony Padilla, has rejoined the team (Shut up!) after leaving in 2017 to start his own YouTube channel after creative differences with ...

Four years ago, Anthony Padilla decided to try something different. Online platforms are craggy cliffsides whose foundations can give way at any moment. YouTube is the OG in that regard ...

Long before teens were lip syncing songs on musical.ly and celebs were battling it out on Lip Sync Battle, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla were recording their own musical showdowns from their high ...

Anthony Padilla has returned to Smosh — and he and Smosh co-founder Ian Hecox have teamed up to buy back the YouTube comedy brand that they launched 18 years ago. The duo have reunited as ...

Anthony Padilla is a content creator who originated on the YouTube comedy channel Smosh. He's since started his own channel, and transitioned from a more humorous style to a more serious one ...