Smosh's Subscribers And Views



Since its creation in 2005, the Smosh YouTube channel has been one of the most subscribed channels, being the most subscribed YouTube channel on three separate occasions. After over twelve years on YouTube, Smosh now sits at the twenty-eighth most subscribed channel with over 24 million subscribers. It has been the most viewed channel on the platform twice as well, now sitting as the eighty-sixth most viewed channel of all time with over 8 billion views.

2005-2010
After being created in 2005, Smosh became the most subscribed channel for the first time in early 2006 as although their couple early comedy and music videos were a contributing factor, their popular Pokemon Theme Music Video mostly propelled them to the position. On April 28, 2006, YouTube first displayed its most subscribed list. The earliest visual representation of it was a screenshot of the top subscribed channels on the 17th of the following month where it showed that Smosh was #1 with 2,986 subscribers and counting. Smosh surpassed FilthyWhore who was now second with only 1,469 subscribers and counting.

This was during a time where expressing yourself on camera was a new but admiring hobby to do. Different people all over the world loved the duo's funny and quirky lip sync to the beloved song which made Smosh seem charismatic and influential than ever.

This reign was the first and only reign a YouTube channel had double or times in general every other. However, they were then surpassed on June 12, 2006, by Judson Liapply as his "Evolution of Dance" video surpassed Smosh's Pokemon Theme Music Video, giving him a lot of exposure to his channel, even more so as the Pokemon Theme Music Video got deleted shortly afterward due to copyright infringement. During this time, music was getting increasingly popular on YouTube as well as funny characters which were one of the reasons why Judison Laipply humorously dancing to songs of different generations surpassed the duo in subscriber and view count for the most viewed video title.

This was also during a time where the most subscribed user would have the most viewed video, the reason they were first in subscribers, Smosh and then Judison Laipply being the only content creators to be qualified for that description.

Later during 2006, Smosh though at most a couple thousand due to YouTube not being as popular yet, was surpassed by YouTube vloggers, Brookers, geriatric1927 (the first non-American YouTuber to surpass Smosh as he was from the United Kingdom and the oldest as he was 72 years old at the time), and lonelygirl15 who had all been the most subscribed at one point during that year due to vlogging's increasing popularity on the site. There is no evidence proving Smosh got surpassed by any other YouTuber in this year. Despite this, Smosh was the most viewed channel on YouTube, twice, their first reign occurring in early 2006 and the second late that year, until being surpassed by CBS's YouTube channel in early 2007.

Despite that, Smosh was the only sketch comedy channel to become the most viewed and has been the most viewed channel the most amount of times.

On April 26, 2007, Smosh's channel became the most subscribed for a second time as their creative comedy sketches became very popular on YouTube. This was at a time where sketch comedy content on YouTube was in its prime as well as Smosh.com's increasing popularity. The channel surpassed lonelygirl15, whose subscriber count dropped due to the general public finding out that she was an actress by the name of Jessica Rose instead of a teenage girl named Bree who just vlogged like what the media initially thought.

Smosh surpassed the actress at around 75,000 subscribers and hit the 100,000 subscriber milestone in May of 2007, hitting it again in December of that year.

In 2007, Smosh gained the most subscribers than any other YouTube channel, 2007 also being the only year they got more subscribers than any channel. They as well at least doubled every channel that had surpassed them before in this year along with having at least over 100,000 subscribers than every other YouTube during their peak as the top channel in subscribers.

They held on to the top subscribed spot, hitting 300,000 subscribers in mid-early of 2007, 400,000 in the middle of that summer, and 500,000 a few weeks before the time newer rising YouTubers, Ryan Higa's and Sean Fujiyoshi's "nigahiga" channel surpassed them at around 531,000 subscribers on September 25, 2008.

nigahiga's spontaneous schedule of vlogs, sketches, and music videos had gained more subscribers than Smosh for a while until they became the most subscribed comedy duo on YouTube. nigahiga also having more elaborate content than Smosh helped them topple Smosh for the #1 subscribed spot on YouTube.

Smosh's second reign as the most subscribed was the first reign where a YouTube channel was the most subscribed for an entire year. nigahiga surpassing Smosh also made Sean and Ryan be the youngest most subscribed YouTubers ever, Ryan beating Anthony by half a year and Ian by three and a half months and Sean beating Anthony by a year and a half months and Ian by a year, 9 months, and four weeks.

Smosh had held that record since May 2006 and shortly after it was broken, they were surpassed by Fred who then went on to surpass nigahiga around the same time to become the most subscribed YouTube channel, also surpassing Ryan's record as the youngest YouTuber to become the most subscribed by 3 years and 2 months and Fujiyoshi's by 2 years and 4 weeks. To this day, Fred's record hasn't been broken.

Fred, the YouTube character was portrayed as a six-year-old boy by Lucas Chruikshank. Lucas was actually fifteen at the time when his Fred channel became the most subscribed on YouTube but that still made him the youngest YouTuber to surpass Smosh and nigahiga in subscribers.

Due to this sudden drop down the most subscribed charts, Smosh was the third most subscribed channel on YouTube by early October 2008. Around this time, Smosh in efforts to compete with their newfound competition, started to make videos on a more consistent basis and hired a crew to help them with editing and propping their videos in higher HD quality and have been updating since then.

By 2009, YouTube's interest changed from sketch comedy to personalities talking to their audience on camera in an entertaining manner. YouTube also went into a stage where family friendly content reigned over more crude humor videos such as Smosh and favored simply propped videos with not much editing which made their best competition at the time, Fred and nigahiga to widen the gap of subscribers more due to the entertainment and relatability.

Smosh gained from one to up to several thousand subscribers every day despite this and still remained the most subscribed channel after them.

By 2010, YouTube again went into a stage where inappropriate videos were favored over child appealing content but still preferred a personality talking/entertaining their audience on camera, a.k.a. vlogs. Due to this, YouTuber Shane Dawson's 2008 created account rose to the third most subscribed spot, pushing Smosh to the fourth most subscribed YouTubers on April 10, 2010. They were eventually surpassed by RayWilliamJohnson, who had gained rapidly increasing fame since the past year, his first year on YouTube, dropping Smosh down to the fifth most subscribed channel on July 26 of that year, by the end of the day, Smosh having around 3,000 subscribers less than Ray. Smosh, previously having more views than all of these channels, now had less.

2011-2016
On January 21, 2011, nigahiga, who had since becoming most subscribed for the first time had been primarily Ryan Higa (although Sean along with special guests did and still play roles in his videos and behind the scenes often) who had surpassed Fred on August 20 of 2009 to become the most subscribed person on YouTube a second time, surpassed Smosh's record as the channel that has been the most subscribed the most consecutive amount of days which Smosh had achieved in their second reign as the most subscribed.

Despite this and Smosh becoming the fifth YouTube channel to hit 2 million subscribers in December 2010, they finally surpassed Fred in February 2011 as the Fred character who was nearly 3 years old at that point was finally decreasing in popularity and rose above Shane Dawson in May of that year becoming the third most subscribed again. Though the same month, Smosh was surpassed by YouTube gaming channel Machinima at around 2.5 million subscribers, the first gaming, news, company, and non-YouTuber channel to surpass Smosh. Machinima did not hold on to the third most subscribed spot for long as Smosh surpassed them the next month as their content gained more and more fans as the channel grew older and more abundant which is one of the reasons why Smosh has since acquired a big, knowledgeable, and loyal following. They as well surpassed Shane Dawson and Fred in viewership once again due to the same reasons they surpassed them and eventually others in subscribers, along with doing the same to CBS's YouTube channel although Machinima did surpass Smosh in views afterward despite Machinima being the only gaming channel Smosh has surpassed in subscribers.

Despite this, however, Machinima surpassed Smosh in subscribers again in early September 2011 as their gaming commentary videos were one of YouTube's first and most popular set of videos, when both channels were around 3.2 million subscribers but was dethroned by Smosh once again for good after both channels had surpassed each other for the third most subscribed spot multiple times throughout this time period, at around 3.8 million subscribers in early December 2011, making Smosh the third channel to hit 4 million subscribers on YouTube on December 28, 2011.

By November 2012, Smosh was still the third most subscribed channel on YouTube recently hitting 6 million subscribers, behind nigahiga who had hit it early that month and RayWilliamJohnson who had hit that number a month prior. Early in 2012, Smosh doubled Fred's subscriber base. Around this time marked the first time Smosh had hit the same number milestone nigahiga hit in the same month since one of the beginning months of 2009.

On December 22, 2012, 4 years and nearly 3 months after nigahiga surpassed Smosh to become the most subscribed YouTube channel from 2008 to 2011, Smosh finally surpassed nigahiga to become the second most subscribed channel and the most subscribed comedy sketch channel behind RayWilliamJohnson with over 6.380 million subscribers despite just a year and a half prior, his channel, along with Johnson's had over a million more subscribers than Smosh.

Smosh as well had had more views than nigahiga since the year prior after the channel surpassed the Smosh channel in views in late 2008 to early 2009. Part of this was due to Smosh uploading more frequently than nigahiga did.

Smosh surpassing nigahiga made it the first time since September 25, 2008, that Smosh had the most subscribed sketch comedic channel on YouTube. The lowest spot they have been in sketch comedic channels' subscriber rankings was #4 and #3. Smosh being the fourth most subscribed sketch comedy channel occurred from April 2010 to February 2011 when nigahiga, Shane Dawson, and Fred had more subscribers than them. Smosh's being the third most subscribed sketch comedy channel occurred from October 2008 to April 2010 when nigahiga and Fred had more than them. RayWilliamJohnson was the only non-sketch comedic channel that had more subscribers than them during these times.

On January 12, 2013, at 6:32 PM eastern, Smosh became the most subscribed channel on YouTube once again for the third time, surpassing RayWilliamJohnson's channel twice in that minute. Due to lack of knowledge from the media and the rounding of reigns, Smosh's first reign which lasted a couple of seconds before Johnson surpassing them again is not considered to be one.

Smosh as well broke the tied record that they held with nigahiga for the channel that has been the most subscribed the most times which was two, now being the only channel to be the most subscribed three times.

Smosh, with over 7 million subscribers, doubled Shane Dawson's subscriber count shortly afterward, being the first YouTube channel to do so.

From there, Johnson's channel started to decrease in popularity as YouTube started to move away from reaction videos and his departure from Maker Studios made his content decrease in quality. Smosh eventually surpassed RayWilliamJohnson in total video views as well but prior on February 5, 2013, surpassed Johnson as having the second most combined reign as the most subscribed channel behind nigahiga's 686 days as the most subscribed channel although Ray's only recorded reign had surpassed Smosh's first and second reign for the second most consecutive days on November 25, 2012.

Smosh's rise as the most subscribed channel for the third time was also due to Smosh's new channel at the time, Smosh Games becoming one of the fastest growing channels on YouTube as in terms of subscriber and view gain which made the entire Smosh brand receive more publicity, Defy Media (their recently joined YouTube partner) influencing them to make their content be seen to an even wider amount of people, as well as YouTube's algorithm pointing more to dark and childish humor like Smosh. Smosh is the first and only YouTube channel to have become the most subscribed channel under Defy Media.

Due to this, Smosh had one of the best growth rates as in terms of subscribers in 2013, going from 6.5 million to a nearly 90,000 over 15 million subscribers in a single year, getting the fourth most amount of subscribers behind YouTube Spotlight (18.1 Million, 945 thousand to 19.1 Million), PewDiePie (15.7 Million, 3.6 Million to 19.3 Million) and HolaSoyGerman. (11.9 Million, 2.4 Million to 14.3 Million). Smosh even further led the gap to be the most subscribed YouTube channel owned by Defy Media which since joining in 2011 still is.

Smosh's subscriber jump is also one of the best growth rates for a YouTube channel in history. Smosh, since its inception, remained in the top several channels to gets the most subscribers over the years. They also gained over 900 million views which were also one of the best view rates for a YouTube channel in 2013 but it was not enough to put them in the top several most viewed which they had done last year and for a long time prior. Smosh though never gained the number one most views for a month except for a couple of times in 2006 when their channel was the most viewed.

As well on August 15 of that year, Smosh was surpassed by PewDiePie, a YouTuber who debuted 4 and a half years after Smosh at around 7:30 PM eastern time when both channels were around 11.915 million subscribers, Smosh having 6.780 million by the time they surpassed Johnson, and they were no longer the most subscribed on YouTube, making it the last time the channel reigned the first position.

Not only has PewDiePie gained more subscribers, even views than Smosh since late 2012 but gaming channels --- specifically Let's Play on YouTube became a new and trending topic and were becoming more and more popular than sketch comedic channels being one of the reasons why PewDiePie surpassed Smosh. Another reason is due to PewDiePie being more international than Smosh, similar to one of the reasons why Asian American channel, nigahiga, the first channel to surpass Smosh whose content creator(s) race was other than White first and nearly 4 and a half reign above Smosh happened.

Due to Smosh not being the most subscribed, their subscriber growth started to decrease. On September 23 of 2013, nearly 5 full years after Smosh lost its most subscribed title for a second time to nigahiga and a month and a bit over a week after losing their most recent most subscribed title to PewDiePie, they were surpassed by YouTube Spotlight and dropped to the third most subscribed channel of all time at around 12.5 million subscribers. At the beginning of the year, Smosh had around 6 million more subscribers than YouTube's channel, their peak subscriber gap above the channel.

This surpassing was because of YouTube opening their pre-suggestion feature which gave new YouTube accounts the option to subscribe to their channel. YouTube Rewind was also a contributing factor, the annual video produced by YouTube's official channel where YouTubers dance to the year's trending pop culture references. The video also included Smosh. This made YouTube reign over all of the top channels in 2013.

Due to Smosh losing their second most subscribed spot to YouTube Spotlight, that was the last time Smosh was the most subscribed American channel, the last time they were the most subscribed channel from 2005 and the second time a company/non-YouTuber and news channel surpassed Smosh, doing so at around 10 million subscribers later than when Smosh got surpassed by Machinima for the first time.

In the same month, PewDiePie surpassed Smosh's record as the most subscribed channel to have the largest subscriber gap to their competition, Smosh having over a million subscribers more than the second most subscribed spot from early March to early July of 2013.

In late October, their subscriber growth increased yet again despite September and most of October of 2013 having the least amount of subscribers they gained in that year. From there, Smosh gained the most subscribers they ever had.

In December 2013 though, PewDiePie surpassed YouTube Spotlight for good after the channel had surpassed him twice during the span of that month and the previous meaning that PewDiePie tied Smosh's record for the channel that has been the most subscribed the most amount of times. In mid-2012, Smosh had an over 4 million subscriber difference above PewDiePie. Now, PewDiePie had an over 4.2 million subscriber difference above Smosh, a few months before surpassing RayWilliamJohnson for the channel that had the most subscribers above Smosh which was nearly 1.5 million throughout 2011-2012.

Smosh gained the most subscribers they ever received in a single month in January of 2014, ranking seventh in the most subscribed YouTube channels of that month gaining 1.68 million subscribers. A few times in that year, they gained a subscriber rate very comparable to PewDiePie's which meant at a few points, they were the second fastest growing channel.

Since late 2012, the comedy channel has received anywhere from 400 thousand to 900 thousand subscribers, but this was the only month, Smosh exceeded a million new subscribers, being one of the first channels to achieve a feat that many channels still haven't done. have done. Also around this time, PewDiePie though, surpassed Smosh's record for the channel who gained the most subscribers while being the most subscribed at that time which was over 5.1 million subscribers during their last reign, 5.5 million subscribers in the total amount of times Smosh has been the most subscribed channel.

2014 though, saw a relatively big decline in the subscriber growth of all YouTube channels, but channels that featured a lot more subscriber interaction such as Let's Play videos and vlogs gained the most subscribers. Smosh as well not being the most subscribed made them start to lose relevance on YouTube which decreased their subscriber growth around February to March 2014 when the comedy channel had around 16 million subscribers, the same time as most channels as well. PewDiePie surpassed Smosh in total video views around the same time.

This was also the same time, geriatric1927 died making it the first time a YouTuber who had surpassed Smosh was no longer living.

Despite PewDiePie surpassing Smosh in total video views and their subscriber growth decreasing, they maintained most of their view gain. Currently, the average view gain per month for the Smosh channel is 50 to 60 million views, the most though being nearly 100 million around the time they were the most subscribed for the third time. They currently have over 7 billion views making them have the seventy-fifth most viewed channel in the world. 2014, however, was the year Smosh dropped out of the top ten most viewed.

On June 21, 2014, Smosh was surpassed by Spanish speaking YouTuber, HolaSoyGerman as the last time they had gained more subscribers than German was the first month of the year (gaining over 30,000 more than the HolaSoyGerman channel), no longer being the closest YouTubers to the most subscribed and the most subscribed sketch comedy channel, now being number 2 which they still are although many YouTubers who currently have more than them do it on occasion but due to it not being their main channel genre are not considered sketch comedians.

This happened when both channels had a bit over a couple ten thousands over 18 million subscribers although Smosh had over 4.5 million more subscribers than German in mid to late 2012. German surpassing Smosh in mid-2014 made it the first time Smosh was surpassed by a Spanish YouTuber. The Chilean Native YouTuber had less than a million fewer subscribers than Smosh since October of the last year until he finally caught up. Garmendia's comedy skits were getting increasingly popular on YouTube and Spanish channels as a whole beginning to gain more subscribers than English channels, including top channels like Smosh.

Smosh despite this gained the twelfth most amount of subscribers in 2014, gaining nearly 4.4 million new fans on their YouTube channel, their second best subscription growth behind 2013's. However, this is the first time Smosh wasn't in the top several most subscribed gains of a year. Smosh hasn't been there again.

January 2015 for Smosh was the last time they made it in the top 100 most subscribed channels for a month, ranking ninetieth, doing it every month for years. Also by then, HolaSoyGerman had over a million more subscribers than Smosh making the channel were nearly half a year behind in subscribers to German with over 19.6 million subscribers, a spot Smosh has been behind nigahiga and RayWilliamJohnson before, although both channels did not get that much of a subscriber gap at the time due to YouTube still growing.

YouTube Spotlight had a bit less than 3 million more (though their subscriber peak above Smosh was nearly 6 million subscribers in February 2014) with PewDiePie having nearly 14 million subscribers more at this time, Smosh being a year behind PewDiePie in subscribers, the first time Smosh was over a year behind a channel in subscribers as well.

A couple months later, too, as the new cast was coming in, Smosh was surpassed by TheEllenShow, the first talk show or television based channel to surpass Smosh in viewership, for the twentieth most viewed channel title on YouTube which was one of the first stages of rapidly dropping down the most viewed charts due to more channels after the talk show host getting more attention on YouTube.

However for the most part of 2015, Smosh gained an average of 200,000 new subscribers a month but since August of that year, their subscriber gain started to decrease going from 150,000 to 100,000 to multiple quarters of 100,000 until losing a few thousand to gaining several ten thousands a month which is currently their subscriber growth rate. The only time their subscriber gain increases are if something drastic happens to Smosh or they capitalize on an original idea such as the last Food Battle and Anthony's announcing he left the channel although that temporarily resulted in a 6,000 subscriber loss.

Smosh as well gains some of the lowest subscriber gains in the top 100 most subscribed currently, with most of the channels on the list closing the subscriber gap while the channels who exceed Smosh exceed it even further.

Their view gain per video has also decreased. Smosh used to get a million views on a regular video with ease but most of the time (except for the times when their subscriber growth increases due to its reasons) struggles to get a million views on an average video as quickly, sometimes not even. Many people believe this is due to their content getting worse or that their channel reached its fame plato as other channels take over, but there is no specific answer as to why.

Smosh has almost always had an effect on all of the Smosh branded channels influencing the growth of them due to their own growth and due to Smosh's channel decreasing, it mostly made all the other channels decrease in subscriber and view gain.

Though July the month prior to their subscriber decrease (their views per video decrease also happened around this time), Smosh recieved their "10 Million Subscribers Diamond Play Button" Plaque from Vidcon, one of the first YouTubers to do so, being the only subscriber milestone play button Smosh has publicly shown having or getting as they haven't shown their "Silver 100,000 Play Button", "1,000,000 Subscriber Gold Play Button" or 50,000,000 Subscriber Ruby Subscriber Play Button", that however due to the fact that the Smosh channel has never reached 50,000,000 subscribers.

Also in that year, in November, they doubled RayWilliamJohnson's subscriber count with over 21.6 million subscribers, something all the channels that surpassed them by then except HolaSoyGerman in early 2015 and YouTube Spotlight and PewDiePie in early 2014 hadn't done. Smosh was also the third YouTubers to do so as well.

Though a couple of months prior, PewDiePie surpassed Smosh in the most amount of days a channel has been the most subscribed, breaking Smosh's over two-year reign record in total, a record Smosh held since June 3, 2013, surpassing nigahiga's 686-day record. PewDiePie as well broke nigahiga's record as the channel that has been the most subscribed the most consecutive amount of days in the middle of that year after surpassing RayWilliamJohnson's reign as the second most amount of consecutive days as the most subscribed channel.

In May of 2016, PewDiePie surpassed 44 million subscribers making a channel have double Smosh's subscribers for the first time since their debut.

This happened around the same time 10 years later when Smosh had at least double every single YouTube channel back in May of 2006.

Smosh, then fourth, was surpassed by JustinBieberVEVO on June 11, 2016, just four days below two months after the comedy channel surpassed 22 million subscribers, making it the first time a VEVO or music channel surpassed them in subscribers despite having over 9 million more subscribers than Bieber less than a year prior. The sudden change in subscriber rank was due to Bieber's highly popular "Purpose" album helping his VEVO channel rise to the top of the subscribe rankings.

Smosh had been #4 for 2 years, the spot where they sat on the longest.

The same month on the 29, Smosh lost over 27,000 subscribers due to YouTube removing no longer needed YouTube accounts, otherwise known to the YouTube community as the "sub purge". Although this was the most subscribers Smosh ever lost in a short amount of time, the rate though was nothing compared to such as PewDiePie who lost over 600,000 subscribers dropping his subscriber count from 46 back to 45 million and Markiplier losing over 300,000. Smosh's gaming channel though suffered the worst loss in the Smosh brand, resulting in a drop of over 113,000 subscribers.

The channel was again surpassed, this time by RihannaVEVO in July of 2016 to become the sixth most subscribed making it the first time in nearly ten years that Smosh was surpassed by a female and the first time a female has had more than Smosh since April 2007. This happened despite Smosh having an over 4 million subscriber difference from the middle of 2014 to late 2015. This was due to Rihanna's 2016 hit album "Anti" boosting her subscriber rate on her VEVO channel. VEVO channels as a whole were and still are growing faster than most original content creators. Music, in general, is a very popular topic on YouTube, though some content creators gain more activity than some or most of these channels, many of these channels gain more or just as much as many subscribers and even other things such as views, likes, and comments than YouTubers.

Rihanna surpassing Smosh made Smosh publicly sit at the lowest spot in the most subscribed charts since the most subscribed charts appeared for the first time.

2017-Present
On January 7, 2017, around 5 PM EST, Smosh was surpassed by Spain native YouTuber, elrubiusOMG when both YouTube channels were around 22.545 million subscribers despite having well over 10 million subscribers more than the Spanish gamer, who had created his channel in December 2011, in mid-2014. By March of 2017, elrubiusOMG had a million more subscribers than Smosh.

Then on May 27, 2017, Smosh was surpassed by Katy Perry's VEVO music account, created in 2009, similar to Bieber's and Rihanna's, at around 3:55 AM EST when both channels were around 22,667,800 subscribers.

Katy Perry's rise above Smosh was mostly due to her new album, "Witness" making a lot of her fans subscribe to her channel. Smosh once having an over 6 million subscriber gap against Perry from early 2013 to early 2014 now had a million fewer subscribers by August 5, 2017, at around 11:30 AM EST. The subscriber gap still continues to increase.

July of 2017 was the first time Smosh was passively surpassed by YouTube channels, getting surpassed by 3 around the last week of the month, the most number of channels to surpass Smosh in subscribers in a single month. Before it was on a rare occurrence Smosh would be surpassed by channels especially the past few years prior to 2017 as 2013 and 2014 (their best years in subscriber growth) put them at a big gap than most channels. In fact, the gap was so huge that the closest channel to Smosh before more and more channels started to surpass them more often after Justin Bieber's VEVO channel did, RihannaVEVO had over 4 million less than them, the most subscribers Smosh had to a channel which was one spot below them. The gap lasted from 2014 to 2015 until it started decreasing.

On July 6, 2017, Smosh was surpassed by T-Series.

On July 21, 2017, Fernanfloo surpassed Smosh in subscribers. At late 7:01 to early 7:02 PM eastern on YouTube, Fernanfloo had 22,729,880 subscribers compared to Smosh's 22,729,878 subscribers, making it the first time Fernanfloo's channel was displayed as having more subscribers than the former comedy duo now comedy group channel.

In the early late part of 2014, Smosh had nearly 18 million subscribers more than Fernanfloo, which was nearly all of their subscribers at that time. Floo, who created his channel in May 2011, started to gain massive popularity on YouTube the same year, now being one of the fastest growing channels on the site, being one of the top contenders to knock off PewDiePie as the most subscribed channel due to his subscriber and view growth kicking most of YouTube's competition in a short amount of time, including Smosh obviously.

At the beginning of July 21, 2017, Fernanfloo had 10,840 subscribers less than Smosh. By the end of the day, he had 4,868 more subscribers than Smosh. At the time of him surpassing Smosh, Smosh lost over 1,000 subscribers after they uploaded the video they posted on that day, NEWS WITHOUT TRUMP. The instance was very similar when they got surpassed by KatyPerryVEVO.

When they were 200 subscribers apart from each other, Fernanfloo almost all of the time gained a commanding gain over Smosh and when he surpassed the sketch comedy channel, his subscriber gain increased more and more.

Fernan's vlogs, short sketches, gameplay, as well as his growing empire (apps, merchandise, etc.) surpassed Smosh in fanbase amount similar to the reason why fellow Spanish speaking YouTuber, elrubiusOMG's rise above Smosh happened. Fernanfloo surpassing Smosh made Smosh the fifth most subscribed user-generated channel, the first channel who has surpassed Smosh since Anthony's departure, and the third Spanish speaking channel to surpass Smosh behind HolaSoyGerman and elrubiusOMG.

Fernan just like everyone who has surpassed Smosh throughout its history has more of a subscriber interaction with their videos such as more likes, views per video, and comments than the channel.

The next day, Smosh was surpassed by EminemVEVO, making Smosh the fourth most subscribed American channel behind YouTube Spotlight, KatyPerryVEVO, and Eminem's VEVO account.

Although Smosh reached its peak subscriber number above EminemVEVO which was over 5 million in late 2013 and kept it until early late 2015, EminemVEVO, which was created in 2009 was still able to surpass Smosh's 2005 account, making it the shortest time a channel surpassed Smosh after Smosh was surpassed by another thus making #9, the number on the most subscribed charts Smosh has stayed on for the shortest amount of time.

On July 27, 2017, TaylorSwiftVEVO then surpassed Smosh, doing so at 6:24 AM eastern time that day making it last time Smosh was in the top ten most subscribed channels, having been there since they first publicly became the most subscribed for the first time on May 17, 2006.

Smosh holds the record for the channel who has been in the top ten for the longest, the second longest reign being held by nigahiga, (2008-2015). Higa stayed #2 after being surpassed by RayWilliamJohnson in June 2011 but then went third as Smosh surpassed him in late 2012. He went from being in the early top 10 to the late top 10 from early 2013 to early 2014. By early 2015, he got kicked out of the top 10 and stayed in the early out of the top 10 from there until early 2017 now being the twentieth most subscribed channel.

For Smosh, they were #2 just a bit over a month after being surpassed by PewDiePie and then dropped to #4 in June 2014 thanks to HolaSoyGerman and started going down in the middle of the list in the middle of 2016, nearly 3 years after they were last the most subscribed channel before fastly leaving it in early to mid 2017. Smosh left the top ten 3 years and 11 months after last being the most subscribed as nigahiga did 3 years and 6 months after his reign ended. Due to Smosh having many channels close to them in subscriber count now, it shouldn't be a surprise if they leave the top 20 relatively quickly.

Smosh though hasn't surpassed a channel in subscribers since being dethroned by PewDiePie for the top spot in 2013 as nigahiga did to Jenna Marbles at around the tenth or eleventh most subscribed spot in November 2015 after she had surpassed him in February 2013 for the third most subscribed spot and had an over one million subscriber gap against him from late 2013 to late 2014.

Again, Taylor Swift's VEVO channel is the channel that kicked Smosh out of the top 10. Beforehand, Smosh was barely gaining or losing subscribers (similar to how Fernanfloo and EminemVEVO surpassed them although this situation was more of them losing than anything else) as Taylor slowly gained subscribers until when both channels were 100 subscribers apart from each other when Swift's channel started growing more and more, especially around the time Smosh and TaylorSwiftVEVO were 15 subscribers away in subscriber count.

By the surpassing, Taylor Swift's VEVO channel had 22,724,282 compared to Smosh's 22,734,279. Smosh had over 10 million more subscribers than Swift in late 2014 which was a million over double her subscriber count but now having less due to her song "I don't want to live forever" featuring former One Direction member, Zayn Malik which had been uploaded on her VEVO channel for 5 months by that time was still getting traction, thus surpassing Smosh.

Also made in 2009 and only uploads videos when something relevant happens in their careers, Smosh having less than the VEVO channel no longer made them the oldest YouTubers in the list, the title now going to PewDiePie who is 27 years of age, 2 years younger than Ian and Anthony. If counting celebrities, Rihanna is the oldest person on the list being 28 years of age.

Smosh leaving the top ten made them the second to last channel to leave the list which was created in YouTube's debut year, the only other channel in the ten top subscribed channels being YouTube Spotlight which was created in July 2005.

By then, Smosh gained 3 million subscribers since the introduction of the Smosh Squad but dropped seven places. To add to the reasons why Smosh is dropping is due to algorithms and trends changing making things other than sketch comedy more popular now. This change started happening around 2013-2015.

Additionally, Smosh no longer has the shortest name in the top ten which they have had multiple times throughout the years, that title at the time of the surpassing going to EminemVEVO, KatyPerryVEVO, and Fernanfloo all having ten letters to their names, double Smosh's. Currently, it is held by T-Series with six letters.

The changing of spots made YouTube Spotlight and PewDiePie the only channels who have been the most subscribed to be in the top 10.

On August 10, 2017, Smosh was surpassed by T-Series in subscribers. Being surpassed at the number 22,751,026 at 8:33 AM EST, T-Series started to gain an even more commanding subscriber growth lead after surpassing Smosh, it starting for the music and entertainment channel when it hit 22.751 million subscribers.

T-Series is an over four-decade-old Indian entertainment and music company and their main YouTube channel is one of the fastest growing on YouTube in views and subscribers, T-Series even having the title of the most viewed channel of all time after surpassing PewDiePie on February 14, 2017.

Smosh had an over 13 million subscribers gap to T-Series and kept it from mid-2014 to late 2015. T-Series already surpassed Smosh's record for most subscribers gained in a month by late 2016. The T-Series channel was created in March 2006 and then, Smosh had around 1-2 thousand more subscribers than them until August 10 where the T-Series and Smosh subscriber gap came in full circle.

T-Series is the oldest YouTube channel to surpass Smosh since YouTube Spotlight. Additionally, T-Series is also the first Indian channel to surpass Smosh and the first music-related channel to surpass Smosh in subscribers other than VEVO.

T-Series is one of the largest music labels and movie labels in the world and the largest in India, a country which exceeds 1.3 billion people. By the time it surpassed Smosh in subscriber count, it had nearly four times the amount of views as Smosh with 21.5 billion views compared to Smosh's 6.6 billion and over 11,000 videos with consistent videos to Smosh's only 900 with a schedule of two videos a week.

The next day after surpassing Smosh, T-Series surpassed TaylorSwiftVEVO, the channel who kicked Smosh out of the top ten to become the tenth most subscribed channel on YouTube at around 22.8 million subscribers, making it the first time the channel has been in the top ten, TaylorSwiftVEVO being on the list multiple times, her highest peak number is 8 at this time but then 7 due to surpassing T-Series for a brief period in August 2017 into September 2017 due to her "Look What You Made Me Do" single going viral. T-Series' along with Taylor's position in the list continues to increase despite T-Series being the second oldest channel behind YouTube Spotlight on it and the rest of the channels on the list being created from 2009 to 2011.

On August 30, 2017, at around 8:30 PM EST and 22.730 million subscribers, whindersonnunes, the first ever Brazilian YouTuber to surpass Smosh, did. His music and comedy vlogs were able to topple Smosh's sketch comedy.

He is the youngest YouTuber to surpass Smosh since Lucas Cruikshank's Fred in 2008, doing so at only 22 years old. By the time Ian and Anthony were 22, they had the third most subscribed channel on YouTube, but only one million subscribers. His channel was made in January 2013 and by then Smosh had around 7 million subscribers and was the most subscribed on YouTube. The peak subscriber gap whinderssonnunes had over Smosh was nearly 18 million by the beginning of 2014. His channel is the youngest to surpass Smosh in subscribers as well.

On September 23, 2017, a full four years after YouTube Spotlight surpassed Smosh once and for good, the first ever group and second non-individual channel (behind Ryan Higa's and Sean Fujiyoshi's "nigahiga" in 2008) surpassed Smosh at around the same number. Smosh had lost over 30,000 subscribers from August to September 2017, the most subscribers they lost in a single month, which was why both channels surpassed them a few weeks earlier than previously thought.

Dude Perfect's sports and tricks spots have been getting a lot of publicity on YouTube since 2014 and they have branched into a worldwide brand, thus surpassing Smosh in subscribers despite Smosh having at most over 15 million more subscribers than them in early 2015.

Dude Perfect and whindersonnunes are still climbing the most subscribed charts today.

Although Smosh is getting surpassed slower by channels now that is because they still have acquired a big gap from many channels since 2005.

However on October 21, 2017, at around 5 AM EST and around 22,746,450 subscribers, OneDirectionVEVO surpassed Smosh in subscribers, becoming the third group and non-indiviual channel to do so despite Smosh having nearly 15 million more subscribers than them in late 2014.

Around noon on November 11, 2017, Ed Sheeran surpassed Smosh when both channels were around 22.750 million subscribers, due to his hit album, ÷ (Deluxe), making his channel have one of the fastest view and subscriber rates of 2017, and hit song and music video, Perfect, releasing on his channel two days prior to the surpassing, rising his channel even further up the most subscribed ranks.

The most subscribers Smosh had over Ed Sheeran was over 15 and a half million spanning throughout the late summer to early fall of 2014

On December 6, 2017, at around 22.766 million subscribers at around 3 PM EST, Canal KondZilla surpassed Smosh due to his produced music video channel rapidly increasing his rank for the top subscribed channels the past few years prior, despite having over 19 and half million less subscribers than Smosh who was the fourth most subscribed YouTube channel in late 2015. He is the second Brazilian to surpassed Smosh in subscribers. He has one of the only YouTube channels to surpass Smosh in subscribers to already have more views than the former most subscribed, sketch comedy channel.

In the eastern morning of December 9, 2017, at around 22.770 million subscribers, JuegaGerman surpassed Smosh, despite having over 15 million fewer subscribers than Smosh in early 2014. JuegaGerman is HolaSoyGerman's gaming channel, meaning that date was the first time Smosh now had two channels owned by the same person, in this case, German Garmendia, have more subscribers than them and the first time in three and a half years a channel owned by German surpassed Smosh.

Not even Shane Dawson, who had two channels in the top ten in 2010 could've had both channels surpass Smosh. However, this took place exactly a week after German Garmendia's original channel, HolaSoyGerman, lost its peak subscriber position for good, #2 to the most subscribed user, PewDiePie, to JustinBieberVEVO, after holding the spot for nearly two and a half years.

Though German's gaming channel reached its subscriber rank peak after it surpassed Smosh which was #16, it reached it multiple times before but lost it due to faster growing channels.

December 2017 marked the first time Smosh was surpassed by multiple channels in subscribers since July 2017.

On January 28, 2018, TheEllenShow surpassed Smosh in subscribers, nearly two years after the channel surpassed Smosh in views, at around 22.847 million subscribers, despite Smosh peaking at over 9 million more subscribers than TheEllenShow in late 2014. The surpassing made it the first time a Talk show or Television based YouTube channel surpassed Smosh in subscribers and the first time a female who was not a musician surpassed Smosh in subscribers since Rihanna.

However, February 2018 marks the first month Smosh wasn't surpassed by a YouTube channel in subscribers since July 2017.

But, less than six hours into the eastern morning on March 4, 2018, Smosh was passed by WWE's YouTube channel in subscribers at around 22.905 million despite WWE having over 14 and a half million fewer subscribers than Smosh from early 2014 to nearly mid-2015. WWE's YouTube channel username is the shortest username to surpass Smosh in subscribers as well.

WWE surpassing Smosh in subscribers was due to posting tens of thousands of videos of their popular television, WWE Network, and online-oriented content for nearly a decade, making WWE not have just one of the most viewed and followed YouTube channels but also have one of the most viewed and followed social media accounts in general. The company also has other social media accounts that are among one of the most viewed and followed. The hyped road to WrestleMania 34 was a more recent factor in WWE's YouTube channel surpassing Smosh in subscribers.

On May 2, 2018, SET India surpassed Smosh in subscribers, specifically at around 22.994 million. The channel has gained subscribers and views at a top rate for posting Sony's Indian television and movie entertainment clips since late September 2006.

Smosh was later surpassed by 5-Minute Crafts and Ariana Grande.

During July and August 2018, Smosh was surpassed by Felipe Neto, VanossGaming and VEGETTA777.

They were later passed by Badabun and Zee Music Company.

Smosh is now the twenty-eighth most subscribed channel on YouTube with over 23 million subscribers, hitting all of their million milestones every month at least once, except for September, their closest date hitting a milestone to that month being nearly 8 days before the first of that month back in 2009 when Smosh hit 1 million subscribers.

To sum up, since first becoming the most subscribed channel on May 17, 2006, a near six months after their YouTube debut, otherwise known as the earliest date of the recording of the most subscribed YouTube channels, Smosh has surpassed channels in the years 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, and 2013. Smosh has been surpassed by channels in the years 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018. The years they didn't surpass channels were 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. The years Smosh hasn't been surpassed by channels or stayed stagnant, were in 2009 and 2015.

Subscriber Milestones Smosh has Achieved In Millions On YouTube Since 2009.

 * Smosh became the third channel to hit 1 million subscribers in 2009 (Eight Best Growth).


 * Smosh became the fifth channel to hit 2 million subscribers in 2010 (Seventh Best Growth).


 * Smosh became the third channel to hit 3 and 4 million subscribers in 2011 (Fourth Best Growth).


 * Smosh became the third channel to hit 5 and 6 million subscribers in 2012 (Third Best Growth).


 * Smosh became the first channel to hit 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 million subscribers, the second channel to hit 12 million subscribers, and the third channel to hit 13, 14, and 15 million subscribers in 2013 (Best Growth).


 * Smosh became the third channel to hit 16, 17, and 18 million subscribers and the fourth channel to hit 19 million subscribers in 2014 (Second Best Growth).


 * Smosh became the fourth channel hit 20 and 21 million subscribers in 2015 (Fifth Best Growth).


 * Smosh became the fourth channel to hit 22 million subscribers in 2016 (Sixth Best Growth).
 * Smosh became the twenty-first (disputed) channel to reach 23 million subscribers in 2018 (TBD Growth).
 * Smosh became the fiftieth channel to reach 24 and 25 million subscribers in 2019 (TBD Growth).

Video View Milestones Smosh Has Accomplished In Billions On YouTube Since 2011.

 * Smosh hit 1 billion video views in 2011 (Seventh Best Growth).


 * Smosh hit 2 billion video views in 2013 (Fifth Best Growth).


 * Smosh hit 3 billion video views in 2014 (Fourth Best Growth).


 * Smosh hit 4 billion video views in 2015 (Best Growth).


 * Smosh hit 5 billion video views in 2015 (Second Best Growth).


 * Smosh hit 6 billion video views in 2016 (Third Best Growth).
 * Smosh hit 7 billion video views in 2018 (Sixth Best Growth).
 * Smosh hit 8 billion video views in 2019