The video challenge was released on December 19, and the Hot Seat Challenge series debuted on March 23, On November 1, , the challenge officially became its own series, directed by Josh Mattingly. The video challenge has the players watch a series of videos and attempt to stop themselves from laughing. The person who laughs the least is the winner. In this version, one player sits in the "hot seat" and fills their mouth with water; their objective is to keep it in their mouth for the full time limit of thirty seconds.
The remaining players take it in turns to try and make the player in the hot seat laugh; they "win" if they make the player spit out or swallow the water within the time limit. Damien became an official regular on April 30, Tommy became an official regular on February 4, Kimmy and Jackie became regulars on September 22, The Smosh Hoodie everyone knows and loves.
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These are reasons that influenced Anthony's decision to leave Smosh because the presence of a production crew and being owned by a company made his creative ideas have to "go through a filter". Frequent comments, especially after the departure of Anthony, state they dislike the direction Smosh is going in and find Smosh's older style videos more creative and entertaining. On June 14, , Anthony left Smosh to become an independent creator on his own channel AnthonyPadilla.
He explains in a video on his channel that he felt like since Smosh was now a brand owned by a company all his creative decisions had to go "through a filter". In a reaction video uploaded by Lasercorn a few hours later, he explained that he expected Ian to see what all he could get out of the Smosh Squad and that Smosh will continue on just fine comparing it to how Saturday Night Live SNL is. A year after his departure, Smosh dropped from the eighth to the twenty-third most subscribed YouTube channel.
On November 7, , various members of Smosh, past and present, confirmed that Defy Media , Smosh's parent company, was shutting down with no prior warning. According to Anthony [1] and Jovenshire , more than eighty people lost their jobs, including the entirety of the Smosh Productions team. Lasercorn uploaded videos on the subject the day before and just afterwards , and Joven uploaded an unedited vlog hours after the announcement, in which he revealed that the channels would not be deleted and all content would still be available to rewatch, but that all of them would be "going dark" - meaning that all video production would cease indefinitely.
There were mixed messages regarding the future of Smosh. Joven referred to his time in Smosh in the past tense, while confirming that he wanted to continue making videos with the other Smosh members and assuring his viewers that they would always be "a family".
The idea that Smosh was closing down permanently was initially somewhat reinforced by Anthony, Mari [2] , Damien [3] , Matt Raub [4] and Kristina Nikolic [5]. However, Ian , arguably the lead authority at the time, stated clearly that he was going to try and keep Smosh together and that he was working on finding a new company to buy the brand [6] [7]. Wes backed this up, encouraging fans to "keep their fingers crossed" [8] , and others such as Ryan Todd , Lasercorn, Boze [9] , Josh Mattingly [10] and the entirety of the Smosh Squad Shayne , Courtney , Noah , Olivia and Keith declared in various ways that they hoped they'd be working together as a company again soon.
Additionally, Flitz finally broke a long-term silence on his status with Smosh, revealing that he also hoped they would continue - and that he could become a full-time member again [11]. Many Smosh members, in both the cast and crew, took the shutdown as an opportunity to declare how much they loved each other and how much they'd enjoyed being a part of Smosh.
Anthony, Lasercorn and Flitz all contributed to this, despite no longer being official members. Almost everyone confirmed that they think of each other as family, and that whatever happens they would always care about each other and try to make new content together. In addition to the company-wide response to the shutdown, fans of Smosh became extremely vocal about Defy Media and the effect it had had on Smosh.
Widespread and obvious support for the channels began spreading out over various platforms, and despite the ongoing perception that Smosh had lost its appeal, long-time, recent and former viewers all paid open respect to Smosh and expressed their sadness at the shutdown, responding well to Ian's insistence that Smosh would soon find a new home.
Many fans claimed that they would willingly donate money to keep the channels going [12] , and stated that YouTube "would not be the same" without Smosh and that they hoped everything would come together soon. 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.
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