Lucas Cruikshank

Lucas Alan Cruikshank (born August 29, 1993) is an American actor and YouTuber. He was originally best known as the character Fred Figglehorn that became popularized on his YouTube channel FRED. Three FRED television movies were created on Nickelodeon as well as Fred: The Show. Lucas also starred in the show Marvin Marvin, both shows being on Nickelodeon as well. Both shows were considered failures. Shayne Topp played a one-appearance role on Fred: The Show in the episode "The Expired Cow" as Steve the Talking Cookie.

Fred On Smosh
In December 2008, Smosh made a video titled "Smosh Snatchers" where in a scene, one of the characters, Debbie, referred to Fred as a "whiny ass White boy" when talking about how Fred and nigahiga surpassed Smosh, thus Smosh being third rather than the most subscribed channel which they were a few months prior.

Then in August 2009, Smosh made a one minute video thanking their fans for the Smosh channel reaching one million subscribers. It then turned into a short sketch where a guy named Phuong wanted to take a break from making accounts to subscribe to Smosh as he had equaled at least 5,000 accounts out of the one million subscribed accounts already but Anthony refused and said that he won't make him take a break from doing it until he makes them surpass Fred, who although got surpassed by nigahiga for the most subscribed channel on YouTube a week prior was the second most subscribed channel on YouTube and was still popular.

Smosh's Reaction To Fred
Smosh reacted to Lucas Cruikshank's "Fred" character in a 2013 episode of the Fine Brothers' YouTubers React series. Lucas is also a recurring guest star in the series, but didn't take part in this episode.

SMOSH Paraody "SQosh"
Though he has never guest starred in any Smosh channel videos, on his FRED channel the video, SMOSH parody "SQOSH" was uploaded September 30, 2014. The video shows the channel "Sqosh" with Tanthony and Greein, who are both vegetables (portrayed by two children), showing they had made a video called "Why Broccoli Is Stupid". The video SMOSH paraody "SQOSH" was heavily criticized by fans with it having more dislikes than likes. Most comments say how poor the video is or straight up insult the creators. Though Lucas is not in the video it is still a channel linked to him so some comments insult him as well. The creation of this video may be one reason why Lucas has not guest starred in any Smosh channel's videos.

Trivia

 * After years of speculation and exactly four years after he last had the most subscribed channel on YouTube, he announced, on August 20, 2013 in a YouTube video that he is gay.
 * Lucas now films videos of him being himself on his channel, Lucas, that has around 2.5 million subscribers.