At the 2023 Streamy Awards, Smosh creators Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla opened up about why they feel confident running Smosh on their own terms again.
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00:00 Longtime YouTubers Ian Hedcox and Anthony Padilla recently bought back their channel,
00:05 Smosh, from fellow YouTubers Rhett and Link. After a long and complicated ownership history,
00:11 many Smosh fans are excited to see the channel back in the hands of its creators.
00:15 Anthony Padilla previously experienced a bit of burnout from working on Smosh,
00:20 and left the channel in 2017 due to creative differences with their parent company at the
00:25 time, Defy Media. At the 2023 Streamy Awards, What's Trending got a chance to talk to Smosh,
00:31 and they opened up about what will be different this time around.
00:34 "Actually part of the reason that I left in 2017 is because it was just so much all at once,
00:40 but now we built really incredible teams, you know, with my channel, with Smosh,
00:44 we built really incredible teams that can help us accomplish all the things that we want to
00:48 accomplish without putting too much stress and pressure on us. Too much, I mean, there's still
00:53 a lot, but it's not quite, you know, overbearing." "Yeah, the Google calendar is going crazy right
00:58 now." New Smosh content is officially out now, and includes reactions to old videos,
01:04 brand new sketches, and more.