40 Fun Facts About Anthony Padilla

Which anime's theme did Anthony Padilla lip-sync in a 2005 Smosh video that briefly became YouTube's most-viewed?

Pokémon made Smosh famous: the lip-sync passed 24 million views before a copyright claim pulled it from the site in 2007.

Which childhood friend joined Anthony Padilla's website smosh.com and became his partner in the duo Smosh?

Ian Hecox grew up in the same California suburb as Padilla and is the one original member who has been with Smosh from the start without a break.

Which YouTuber passed Smosh as the most-subscribed channel in 2013, ending Anthony Padilla's third spell on top?

PewDiePie took the top spot that August and collaborated with the Smosh pair on a video shortly afterwards.

What reason did Anthony Padilla give in June 2017 for walking away from Smosh, the channel he had co-founded?

Lack of creative freedom was his stated reason, announced in a video on his own channel, where he then built a solo career as an interviewer.

How did Anthony Padilla and his co-founder make Smosh independent again in June 2023, six years after he left?

Buying the company back from Mythical Entertainment gave the pair a majority stake, and the main channel returned to scripted sketches.

Which YouTube act's company, Mythical Entertainment, acquired Smosh in 2019, two years after Anthony Padilla's exit?

Rhett & Link stepped in after the previous owner of Smosh collapsed, and most of the cast and crew came back under the new banner.

Anthony Padilla voices which green bird with boomerang-like abilities in The Angry Birds Movie and its 2019 sequel?

Hal can fling himself like a boomerang, and Padilla kept the role for the sequel even though he had left Smosh by then.

Which reality competition featured Anthony Padilla as a guest in a 2018 episode built around social media stars?

RuPaul's Drag Race brought him in for its season 10 makeover challenge, in which the queens gave six internet personalities a drag transformation.

Which interview series did Anthony Padilla create on his solo channel, meeting furries and ex-cult members?

I Spent a Day With was built for in-depth talks with people who tend to be left out, and Padilla said he wanted to avoid cringe-reaction humour.

Anthony Padilla played which Renaissance artist in the Epic Rap Battles of History episode Artists vs TMNT?

Raphael was his part in the 2014 season finale, in which four YouTubers played the artists facing their Ninja Turtle namesakes.

Anthony Padilla was born in which California city, also the birthplace of his Smosh co-founder?

Sacramento is where both were born in 1987, and they grew up in the nearby suburb of Carmichael, where the first Smosh videos were shot in Padilla's bedroom.

In which school year did Anthony Padilla meet his future Smosh partner, in a shared science class?

Sixth grade brought them together, and a shared taste for comedy did the rest; they were still teenagers when they began posting videos.

What did Anthony Padilla post on smosh.com after registering the site in 2002, three years before joining YouTube?

Flash animations filled the early site, which got its name when Padilla misheard a friend describing a mosh pit.

Smosh discovered YouTube after finding an upload of Anthony Padilla's duo lip-syncing to which fighting game's theme?

Mortal Kombat was the clip they found already on the site with several thousand views, so they opened a channel of their own in November 2005.

On which social network did Anthony Padilla's duo run the fan poll that chose the subject of their breakout video?

MySpace hosted the poll, and the pair also posted their earliest lip-syncs there before they had a YouTube channel.

Anthony Padilla made the Smosh logo from a fast-forward sign and an S from a font based on which band?

Linkin Park lettering supplied the S for the logo, which Padilla put together himself as a young teenager when he set up the site in 2002.

Barry Blumberg, who became manager of Anthony Padilla's duo in 2006, once ran which studio's TV animation arm?

Disney veteran Blumberg got the pair into YouTube's Partner program in 2007 and persuaded them to stick to a schedule for making videos.

Which company owned Smosh from 2011 and was branded evil and shady by Anthony Padilla after it shut down?

Defy Media folded without warning in 2018, and Padilla then revealed the duo had sold Smosh for stock that turned out to be worth nothing.

Which newspaper crowned Anthony Padilla YouTube's interview king in a 2022 profile of his solo work?

The Washington Post gave him the title for a series whose guests have ranged from the head of YouTube to survivors of school shootings.

Which then-chief executive of YouTube sat down with Anthony Padilla for an episode of his solo interview series?

Susan Wojcicki appeared in 2021 and explained why she kept an eye on the drama among the creators on her own platform.

Which Minecraft star told Anthony Padilla in 2021 that he had handled a speedrun cheating scandal badly?

Dream also explained that he never meant to stay anonymous, but the mystery had become too central to his online persona to give up at that point.

Which production company did Anthony Padilla found in 2020 to make unscripted shows such as his interview series?

Pressalike was brought under the Smosh umbrella in 2025, when the company and Padilla's personal channel were both given a matching new name.

Which creator convention named Anthony Padilla's Smosh to its inaugural Hall of Fame in 2025?

VidCon picked Smosh for the first class of an honour created for content creators, twenty years after the duo's first uploads.

Anthony Padilla's Smosh was the first channel to hit ten million subscribers, the mark for which YouTube award?

Diamond is the play button for ten million subscribers, and only 35 channels qualified when YouTube introduced it in 2015.

A fan's dubbed versions of Smosh sketches led Anthony Padilla's duo to add an official channel in which language?

Spanish dubs were first made by a fan, whom the duo then hired for ElSmosh, one of three channels they added in 2012.

Which animation channel did Anthony Padilla's Smosh launch in 2012, the same year as a gaming channel?

Shut Up! Cartoons arrived alongside Smosh Games, part of an expansion that followed the sale of the brand the year before.

Which annual Smosh series starring Anthony Padilla became a crowdfunded action role-playing game in 2014?

Food Battle fans pledged just over $259,000 for the game in 2013, and the duo gave a tenth of the money to charity.

In which 2016 Smosh sitcom did Anthony Padilla play Anton, who is put in charge of a run-down children's arcade?

Part Timers ran for 20 episodes on the main Smosh channel, with Anton landing the job through his father despite having no experience.

Anthony Padilla plays Charlie in which 2016 YouTube Red release, a film he also co-wrote and executive produced?

Ghostmates casts his Smosh partner as the spirit of the flat's last tenant, and the rapper T-Pain turns up as a fellow ghost.

Which star of the Bill & Ted films directed Anthony Padilla in the 2015 feature Smosh: The Movie?

Alex Winter shot the whole film at YouTube Space in Los Angeles and appears in it only in a photograph, as a character's uncle.

Which wrestling star appears as himself to give Anthony Padilla's character advice in Smosh: The Movie?

Steve Austin, billed as Stone Cold, counsels the fictional Anthony mid-quest and returns as a vision to spur him on at the reunion.

In Smosh: The Movie, the fictional Anthony Padilla is stuck in which dead-end job before his trip inside YouTube?

Pizza delivery man is his job at the start, and in the altered reality of the ending it is the villain who is left doing the rounds.

Which streaming service picked up worldwide rights to Smosh: The Movie, Anthony Padilla's feature film debut?

Netflix took the streaming rights after a home-video release by 20th Century Fox, and the pair have since acknowledged the film's poor reputation.

Anthony Padilla's mother is German, while his father's family is of which Southeast Asian descent?

Filipino on his father's side, Padilla was raised mostly by his mother after his parents separated when he was two.

Which business magazine twice named Anthony Padilla to its annual list of young achievers, in 2012 and again in 2014?

Forbes put him on its 30 Under 30 list in the entertainment category both times and later ranked Smosh among the highest-paid YouTube acts three years running.

Which Smosh series featuring Anthony Padilla premiered in 2024 as the company's take on a late-night talk show?

Bit City became the main channel's focus after a first year back spent revisiting old sketches, with Angela Giarratana and Chanse McCrary as hosts.

The 90-minute sketch show Anthony Padilla's Smosh streamed on YouTube in 2016 was compared to which TV institution?

Saturday Night Live was the natural comparison for the broadcast, which mixed improvised sketches with fake commercials and drew about 58,000 viewers at once.

Whose vlog do Anthony Padilla and his co-star land in during Smosh: The Movie, where she warns them of being trapped?

Jenna Marbles plays a version of herself stuck inside YouTube for good, and in the film's altered ending she is running the whole company.

Whose channel, home of Equals Three, did Anthony Padilla's Smosh pass in January 2013 to regain the subscriber lead?

Ray William Johnson had held the lead for 564 days, and the Smosh pair appeared on his show that same year in an episode titled RWJ vs Smosh.

Anthony Padilla said the former owner of Smosh had blocked him from joining which Hollywood union?

SAG-AFTRA membership was kept from him after he left, he said, and the same company had tried to take over his social media pages.