We see all this chaos around us since the beginning. For a time, it looked like Smosh could have been the victim of the changing digital business.
Alloy later merged with Break Media and became Defy Media, and Padilla eventually decided to leave the company and strike out on his own.
Smosh had multiple channels and some 40 million subscribers in November when Defy suddenly announced that it would shut down and lay off almost all of its staff.
Hecox tweeted Nov. Behind the scenes, Hecox was looking for a path that would allow him to keep Smosh alive. Many also saw the break with Defy Media, acknowledged to be a controlling, money-orientated corporation, as a positive development: there was widespread hope that cancelled shows such as Lunchtime With Smosh and Smosh is Bored would return, that Smosh itself would have more say on what and when it uploaded, and even some who hoped that Anthony would return.
Furthermore, some other YouTubers also voiced their opinions regarding the matter. Lisa Schwartz, who goes by her YouTube name Lisbug, commented that "I had to find out they were closing via a Tubefilter article. Not even a call or a heads up. Blinded and without pay. On November 12, , a video entitled Smosh is Homeless was suddenly uploaded to the Smosh main channel though Jovenshire had mentioned it in an Instagram live stream the day before. The video featured Ian , Boze , Damien and the Smosh Squad , and Ian revealed that he had unexpectedly been given access to all the Smosh channels, and that despite the fact that Smosh was now functioning without either a parent company or a production team, they would actively try to continue uploading pre-filmed videos themselves.
He also stated that as long as they had access to the channels, they would be trying to create new independent videos for them; Ian kept this promise, as he and the Squad came together to film new content for both Smosh and Smosh Pit , using Ian's house as a set for the videos. In Smosh is Homeless and in a comment made via the Smosh channel , Ian made it clear how grateful he was for the ongoing support shown by the fanbase.
Along with the other present Smosh cast members, he insisted multiple times that Smosh had been doing well recently, and that they were not planning on going away any time soon - and that one of his priorities was making sure that all the Smosh team both cast and crew got their jobs back.
As soon as the news about Defy Media was announced, Jovenshire, Lasercorn and many viewers expressed concern that Smosh Games would not be a priority if a transition to another company was made. While Smosh and Smosh Pit had consistent viewing numbers, Smosh Games had been falling behind for some time, and Joven in particular implied that another company may not see Smosh Games as a profitable investment.
This idea was very negatively received by fans, and was fed by a statement from Ian that he would try and ensure that finished videos from Smosh and Smosh Pit would be uploaded, with no mention of Smosh Games. While the channel did not receive as many views as the two other main Smosh channels, the idea that Smosh Games might actually be coming to an end was not well received, affirming that the channel had a consistent fanbase and reiterating that the channel had recently been gaining popularity again, and fans began awaiting news that Smosh Games would continue alongside the rest of the company.
Worries about Smosh Games seemed to be put to rest with the release of Smosh is Homeless , which confirmed that Smosh Games would receive equal attention to Smosh and Smosh Pit in the near future, with videos continuing to be planned and edited for the channel. However, despite this initial claim, attention given to Smosh Games seems to have eventually been sidelined; while Smosh and Smosh Pit kept a fairly regular upload schedule since production was halted, Smosh Games began to lag behind, seemingly due to having less available pre-filmed content than Smosh and Smosh Pit, and as of Christmas all Smosh Games episodes filmed prior to the shutdown had been uploaded.
In addition to an absence of new content, the Smosh Games crew itself seemed to be fractured from the main cast; after the shutdown, the Smosh Squad continued to make regular appearances as a group, often appearing on each others' social media accounts and personal YouTube channels, and even came together to create new videos for the main Smosh channel with the help of the remaining crew; and while many of the various Smosh Games cast members created content together after their channel went dark, they did not remain together in the same sense as the Squad - meaning that unlike the other two Smosh channels, Smosh Games did in fact "go dark".
Out of the five Smosh Games members working on the channel before the shutdown, Mari, Wes and Joven came together to create new content including Lasercorn and Sohinki in much of it , but Boze and Damien never formally united with the rest of Smosh Games after vacating the Smosh office, though Damien appeared in new content for the Smosh main channel and appeared on Lasercorn and Joven's personal channels. While Ian confirmed that he had run out of pre-filmed Smosh Games videos to upload, it seemed that the cast was not planning on coming together for the sake of the channel while they were not officially Smosh employees, and sure enough, no genuinely new content was released on Smosh Games while Smosh had no parent company.
Despite this, in the summary for the last Smosh Games episode to be uploaded after the shutdown, Ian directly confirmed that he was trying to find a new home for Smosh Games alongside Smosh and Smosh Pit, and that he hoped the Smosh Games crew would be coming together to create new content for the channel before too long. On January 12, , Boze confirmed on Twitter that she would be leaving her YouTube career to become a marketing director, confirming that she would not be returning to Smosh Games if Smosh did find a new home.
On April 3, , the release of The Return of Smosh Games confirmed that Smosh Games would officially become active again on April 10, with Mari, Lasercorn and Damien all returning as regular cast members though it was confirmed that the divides between the cast would become more blurred, with the Smosh Squad and Smosh Games coming together to create content in a more liberal manner than before.
Following numerous queries from viewers about their status with Smosh, Joven confirmed in a video on his personal channel that neither he, Sohinki nor Wes would be rejoining the channel on a regular basis, though the option of them still appearing, albeit less than before, was left open.
On February 22, , another video called " The rumors are true In this video, Ian officially announced that Smosh had been bought by Rhett and Link from Good Mythical Morning and would now be functioning under the protection of their company, Mythical Entertainment - something that had been speculated by the Smosh fanbase, prompting the title of the announcement video.
Ian confirmed that Smosh would essentially be starting all over again - they would have far more creative freedom within the new company, and they were going to be trying various new things within the Smosh brand and taking a larger amount of responsibility for it than they had in the past. Damien in turn confirmed that all the regular Smosh channels, including Smosh, Smosh Games , Smosh Pit and ElSmosh , would be active again - and a new channel, SmoshCast , was also announced, focused around a new Smosh podcast.
Noah directly referenced the effect of the Smosh fanbase on the brand's existence in the video, saying that Smosh could not have continued without the ongoing support of the fans - harkening back to Ian's statements of the same nature in previous update videos. The upload of "The rumors are true The channel banners and icons of Smosh, Smosh Games and Smosh Pit were similarly altered, featuring the name of each channel on a black background. In the first episode of SmoshCast , Ian, Shayne and Courtney talked about how much happier they were at Mythical than they had been at Defy Media, referencing everything from the refreshments available to the state of the bathrooms - but they mostly highlighted how their management had changed for the better.
Ian claimed that joining Mythical was the closest thing they could have done to functioning as an independent company - he was now officially "in charge" of Smosh, as opposed to answering to corporate officials, and Rhett and Link were giving him and the rest of the Smosh cast genuine creative freedom, letting them do, in Ian's words, "whatever we want".
It was revealed in this podcast episode that Defy Media rarely took notice of the ideas put forward by the Smosh cast, choosing instead to gravitate to the video concepts they thought would get the most views, which ironically often didn't in comparison to those conceived by the cast themselves - and that unlike Defy, Mythical was rarely interfering with what Ian and the cast wanted to do barring occasional guidance and suggestions, letting the cast for the most part forge a path for Smosh based on their own wishes for the brand.
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