Anthony Padilla (Smosh) Height, Weight, Age, Girlfriend, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Anthony Padilla
- Does Anthony Padilla smoke?: Not Known
- Does Anthony Padilla drink alcohol?: Yes
- He was a very shy kid and used to sleepwalk in the night.
- He says that his birth was an accident as when he was born his parents were very young, mother- 20, father-22 but his parents broke up when he was 2.
- In 2002, he met Ian Hecox in his sixth-grade science class.
- He suffered from a disease called HSP (Henoch-Schonlein Purpura), which involves the inflammation of small blood vessels. He was bedridden for quite a long time due to that disease.
- While he was in his bed fighting HSP, he taught himself computer programming & coding.
- The same year, he created a website called ‘smosh.com’ which was later joined by Ian.
- The name ‘Smosh’ came from an incident where he mistook a friend explaining a mosh pit.
- In 2005, Anthony & Ian together began posting videos on their YouTube Channel- Smosh and became one of the most popular channels.
- In 2005, they posted a video featuring themselves synching to the Pokemon theme song on their channel Smosh. Though the video was deleted due to copyright issues.
- That video went viral instantly and became the most-viewed video on YouTube at that time amassing over 24 million views.
- In 2006, their success of the Pokemon video led Smosh to be featured in the ‘Person of the Year: You’ issue of Time Magazine, and also on Time.com.
- They later started making other short YouTube skits, such as their annual video series ‘Food Battle’ and ‘That Damn Neighbour’.
- When he hit the age of 21, he started getting panic attacks and he was so scared of those attacks that he dropped his college and started staying at home.
- He still has those panic attacks more or less often but his perseverance towards his Youtube career helped him fighting all the hurdles.
- In 2010, they created the ‘iShut Up App’ for Android phones as part of a Google sponsorship and eventually made their way to the iTunes app store.
- In 2012, Ian & Anthony started three new YouTube channels: ‘ElSmosh’, with Smosh videos dubbed in Spanish, ‘Shut Up! Cartoons’, with various animated videos, and ‘Smosh Games’, with gaming-related content.
- They both got their debut movie- ‘Smosh: The Movie’ released on July 23, 2015, under the production label- ‘Lionsgate’.
- Their channel- Smosh was the most subscribed channel in the world for the three consecutive years until PewDiePie took their first position.
- In June 2017, Anthony & Ian broke up their alliance and started working separately on YouTube.