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35: Smosh tell us everything.

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Smosh's Pokémon music video held YouTube's all-time view record for about eighteen months before copyright removal.

1. Shut Up I’m Talking: “Smosh tell us everything” features Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla discussing Smosh’s origins and career. 2. Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla are Smosh’s founders, making them the relevant guests for the channel’s history. 3. The episode asks how two sixth-grade friends turned early lip-sync videos into a long-running comedy business. 4. Hecox and Padilla say they met in sixth grade after a teacher paired them on a landfill project. 5. The landfill assignment produced jokes about flies, stink lines, and poop that reflected their shared sense of humor. 6. Padilla created Smosh.com in 2002 as a forum and hosting site for friends’ photos, articles, and videos. 7. A friend’s 2003 video of a Furby in a microwave became Smosh’s first viral video. 8. Padilla says Smosh.com eventually generated about $300 per month in bandwidth fees as videos spread through MySpace. 9. The guests joined YouTube in 2005 after Padilla found their Mortal Kombat music video uploaded there by another user. 10. Smosh’s Pokémon theme music video became YouTube’s most-viewed video for about a year and a half before removal for copyright infringement. 11. The Pokémon video had 25 million views when YouTube removed it, a figure the hosts contrast with today’s billion-view scale. 12. Hecox and Padilla describe early YouTube as a niche community without the algorithm that now guides discovery. 13. The guests compare Smosh’s early performance with channels including nigahiga and mention sketch creators such as Shane Dawson. 14. Smosh’s growth was gradual rather than an overnight transformation from unknown creators to public celebrities. 15. Hecox and Padilla say they posted one sketch weekly plus two vlog videos after adding a vlog channel. 16. The pair describe periods of working seven days a week and later estimate that work consumed about 99 percent of their lives. 17. Smosh sold in 2011, and the guests say outside support enabled production while company ownership changed their decision-making power. 18. Anthony’s 2017 departure followed a realization that Smosh was no longer theirs and that he was working for the owning company. 19. YouTube history and creator-business stories suit viewers interested in Smosh and online comedy. 20. Viewers seeking scripted drama or non-comedy interviews might skip this creator-history conversation.

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