A Brutally Honest Conversation with Smosh

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

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4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Today on the Colin and Samir Show, we interview Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, the founders of Smosh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Anthony and I reacquiring Smosh, not just a nostalgia play.
0:03.4	This is who we are now.
0:04.9	Rent and Link buy Smosh for $10 million.
0:07.1	What's the compensation structure of that?
0:09.0	Hell no.
0:10.3	It's crazy to think YouTube started with a joke.
0:12.7	Tell me more.
0:13.1	And it became the model for every social media platform.
0:15.3	It became the model of the internet.
0:16.2	We don't need to pay you.
0:17.1	We're making you famous.
0:18.7	Fuck you. We're making you famous. Fuck you. And how are you feeling emotionally at that time?
0:21.7	I was scared to see it do better without me.
0:23.8	How do you guys ensure you don't split up again?
0:27.6	Mm.
0:30.4	Today on The Collin and Spir Show, we're joined by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hickox, the founders of Smosh.
0:36.7	Smosh was YouTube before YouTube even existed.
0:40.3	They started out uploading their comedy videos to their own website in 2002, actually a website
0:45.3	that Anthony coded himself. And shortly after they joined YouTube in 2005, they became the
0:51.3	first channel to cross 7, 8, 9, and 10 million subscribers.
0:56.0	It's pretty rare to get to talk to people of knowing YouTube as their career for over 20 years.
1:02.0	So we got the opportunity to ask Anthony and Ian about the successes and failures they experienced in this two-decade-long journey of running a creator-led media company.
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