Smosh is an American sketch comedy YouTube channel co-founded by Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla. In 2002, Padilla created a website named "smosh.com" for making Flash animations, and he was later joined by Hecox. They began to post videos on Smosh's YouTube channel in the autumn of 2005 and quickly became one of the most popular channels on the site. As of May 2022, the Smosh channel has over 10.1 billion views and over 25.1 million subscribers, putting it just outside of the top 9,000 most subscribed channels on YouTube