Smosh Mouth - S2: #63 - Ranking Our Top 5 Favorite YouTubers

Episode Date: May 13, 2020

Courtney, Shayne and Damien are ranking their top five favorite YouTubers of all time, from throwback favorites Kassem G and Jenna Marbles, to current day faves, like Tiny Meat Gang and Game Grumps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I still get comments were like, I miss the old Smosh. This isn't as good as the old Smosh. And what I think those people don't realize what they're saying is they miss the old YouTube. Shane Dawson. I don't generally care about makeup. That's never something I've cared about before. And yet his series of working with Jeffree Star is one of my favorite bits of content for years.

Damien and I, I realized we dip into donkey quotes all the time. Like when I defeat an enemy, I'm like, now this is the most kill guy. Probably tough for anyone to do scatting after Scatman You can't do it after a guy who's literally Named Scatman becomes

The guy doing it I thought he was named after the term for poop that you use when you're hiking Yeah Hey I'm recording by the way I think we are all live on the air Live Hide your titties. We're live.

Wow. Are we doing this? Are we doing this? I think we're doing this. We can. Okay. I guess we're doing this. If we want to do this, we can.

I would love to do this. All right. Those listening, what if we were just like, you know what? Not this time. Nah. And we all just stop. And then you're just silent. Pod just stops.

Pod just stops. Pod just stops. For an hour. Three minutes. You just hear us going about our day in the kitchen, like hearing music, just our day. You know, there's podcasts that like are on Spotify that are made by like young children, just poorly made.

Like you'll hear like 30 minutes of like, the kid is not even near his computer and he's like talking to his parents. Like this exists. Jay Cyrus, my friend from Vine, 30 minutes of the kid is not even near his computer and he's talking to his parents. This exists. Jay Cyrus, my friend from Vine, found them. And it's so funny. Just a kid who was playing with his toys and then just forgot he was recording.

And he posted it. It's great. I've done that kind of stuff before. I've taken a break on a Twitch stream and like forgot to mute my mic. And then everyone was like, oh, is he peeing? Yeah, he's peeing. And then you hear like the hand washing,

I come back and everyone's just like, ah, and I'm like, well, all it takes is one and now forever. That's the thing. The government doesn't need to listen in on us because we already just put our stuff out there. Broadcasting. We're actually broadcasting everything. I expected Noah to just burst through your window

just now and be like, actually, hold on. I gotta think something about that. Sorry, I just heard you say it. I used to be scared of like people hearing me pee. Like if I was at VidCon and a Smosh fan happened to hear me pee, it's like great, now that person knows what peeing sounds like. Totally.

As I've gotten older, and I think it's from working in the office with a bunch of people, I have gotten less and less insecure about just letting it all out in a public restroom. Good, good. You know, I'm like at a certain point,

you know what? If you're making an effort to listen in, go ahead. You win. You get it. You get all the pee-pee sounds. Exactly. All right.

Well, let's get into the reason we're casting this pod today. What up, Smosh Simps? It's Courtney and her boys. Jesus. Simps. It's a good term. It's short for Simpsons. I'm the Bart.

Hi. And I'm Peter Griffin. Wow. Peter. Hi. And I'm Peter Griffin. Wow. Peter. Wow. That was a good Alex Borstein or Bornsteiner. I don't know how to say your name. Okay.

Well, we're doing this podcast today. This is actually Shane's idea. We're going to do another top five. Bada bing, bada boom. Wouldn't you believe it? I'm sure you guys have seen the title or something already, but we're going to do our top five YouTubers today. How are you boys feeling?

You got your list finalized? I have a giant list of names. It's sure not a final list, and I will be changing it as we go because it is a hard one today. I will say, yeah, last night we were talking like, what should we do a top five of? TV shows, movies, whatever. And I was like, oh, maybe YouTubers. And at first I was like, that's probably easy. I know my top five.

And I kept listing out YouTubers and YouTube channels that I've loved over the years. And I was like, oh, I forgot about that one. Oh, yeah. I went through a phase where I loved that channel the most. Oh, I mean, it's been around for, you know, 14 years. And I've been very active on the channel for 14 years. So I have there are a million channels that I love that are not on this list

that may not even be honorable mentions that are just as good as the ones I'm listing. I just tried to do like my top five or like my top YouTubers that I've been obsessed with or really into in the last year. That's a smart, you narrowed it down. See mine's all over the place. The YouTube channels that raised me, however.

Yeah, exactly. I'm on one of them, first of all. Yeah. Ain't that something? I actually posted a clip from one of my old favorite YouTube channels the other day, Balloon Shop. Oh, yeah. It was the snack Derek. So good.

Trying to have my treat, Derek. I've tweeted a few of those videos. And Olin Rogers who's like he's been on like you posted that and stuff he like replied

I remember I tried to like introduce myself to Olin and I don't think he realized I worked at Smosh or something because he was like who are you

and I was like I love your video I love you I watched Balloon Shop and he's like and I was like okay I gotta go wow

oh no I snuck into the building bad first impression but yeah well do we want to get into this because I I was like, okay, I gotta go. Oh no. I snuck into the building. Bad first impression. Well, do we want to get into this? Because I think it's going to take us a minute. I'm still looking at my list. I did not pay attention to half of that because I'm just like, uh-huh, yeah.

I'm just going through my subscriptions. Dude, should we start with honorable mentions or have the honorable mentions at the end? I say we start with number five and do honorable mentions before number one. Oh, frick. Okay. That's hard, dude.

I'm gonna, you know what I'm gonna do? There's some like really, really big YouTubers on here and I think I'll just keep those in the honorable mentions because they like go without saying, like obviously they're dope. All right, whatever you want. I say we do honorable mentions later also because I have a feeling

we're gonna remember a bunch. I'm sure. As we're talking. And then we can add them to do honorable mentions later also because I have a feeling we're going to remember a bunch. I'm sure. As we're talking. And then we can add them to the honorable mentions at the end. I'm changing my number five. All right. I just changed a bunch of things.

And since Shane, since you're having ties, I'm putting people in categories. I'm like, number two comes into this category of tie above. Yeah. No, I have multiple ties here

because they go under the same umbrella for sure. All right. Okay. Who wants to start also really quick i do want to disclaim if there are fans that are upset that we we are a fan of certain channels it's okay it's okay if we like different things don't get upset it's we're all we all have our different tastes and our different stance that's true don't hate our taste yeah my fear

is that i'm not like gonna be up to date on everybody and be like there was a youtuber i loved like from five years ago and they were my absolute favorite and then all the comments are gonna be like, they burned down an orphanage. And I'm like, oh, I didn't, I don't follow. No, that's not our job. Oh yeah, sorry, I checked out in 2010. That's not our job.

Our job is to literally cast this box. Well, I'll start if you guys want. Yeah, get it going, Poppy. All right. Number five. All right, so my number five, this is a safe one for me. This channel I've been watching

pretty consistently for a couple years now. I love his stuff. He's just so silly. I laugh at every single video. And his videos are very unique, I think. Gotta give it to Video Game Dunkey. Yeah, dang it. Oh, crap, I forgot about Dunkey.

It's okay well shane has mentioned it and video game donkey he's my number three well don't courtney i'll change it now okay no this is gonna be a mess we're just gonna change everything i think it's okay if we have the same ones on our list uh it's okay because we are all ranking them differently donkey is just awesome like i i love how just his videos are so just balls to the wall but I can often tell that he's really good at video games at least he's

far better at video games than me like watching his Overwatch videos are just incredible like they're just so good and I like his style I like that he clearly he clearly plays the game a bunch and then cuts that up and then voices over that a lot i think and he's just it's just so poppy like you've got some just solid like

five minute just videos that are packed with jokes he puts a lot of effort into it i do i love it and it's just so different like his he's stayed so consistent with just this weird weird style um and i you know, speaking of controversy, I didn't think of Dunkey as being a controversial figure, but apparently the RPG community just because he comes out. Oh, they hated him, yeah.

And he makes, so occasionally Dunkey does videos where he like actually reviews. Critiques, yeah. Critiques video games. The Dunkey views, the Dunkey views. And Damien and I are huge JRPG fans. But Dunkey loves to just shit on on final fantasy 7 and stuff yeah it always like there's always like this

uproar i think it's fine i think it's funny he's always said that he's hated them and then like in a recent video he said it again and the people like oh my it's like dude we've been new like also he doesn't have to love what you love but also like too it's like he's also not wrong half the time like i love jrpgs but everything he said about final fantasy 7 that was like quote unquote wrong i was like yeah i still love the game i still love the genre but you are correct about everything you're saying and it didn't ruin the game for me and i didn't tweet anybody look at me let me go it's it's fine it's a very it's not controversial it's just a it's just a heated debate about video games um which is fine the video game community we always do that like no he's great because and you don't even have to like even know the video

games he's talking about because he's either already teaching you about them or just it's just funny it's just so funny and and the fact that he is good at the video games adds so much. Him doing Mario Maker, incredible. It's so good. The kind of glitches he finds and things like, I think his original Red Dead video was like the thing that made me discover him

like years and years ago. In fact, Shane, I think I was in your apartment. What room? Your old, like the old, old place before we were roommates, yeah. I think you showed me him, Shane. I'm not sure. Did I? I've just, I don't know how I,

I just would come across his videos and they were so good. Every single one, like his Metal Gear Solid V stuff is just legendary. Incredible, yeah. Every single time a video game comes out, I am waiting for him to get on there. And just, and he does always like find the thing, like Witcher 3 was a game that I thought was just perfect. And he managed to find like glitches in the game

that he was just exploiting. I was like, God, it's so funny. It's so good. I love it. And his wife or his fiance, I can't remember which. She's so cute. Leah, I think her name is. Yeah.

Her voice is always like this. Like, are you gonna do that thing? Oh my God. Yeah, Damien and I realize we dip into donkey quotes all the time. Like whenever I'm playing a video game, even if I'm by myself, when I defeat an enemy, I'm like, now this is the most killed guy.

He's the most killedest in me. So good. No, because I'm gonna kill him in one hit. That doesn't count because my brother was playing. Like he's the most killedest in me so good no because I'm gonna kill him in one hit that doesn't count because my brother was playing like he said so good

also I was blindfolded do you want me to go next you want to be the third guy Dame I'd be happy

to be the third wheel my number five is a tie I know I'm starting off real weak sauce but it is they both are so similar

and I think they actually kind of are they know each other in this space but then they're also faceless youtubers um prim ink prim and the right opinion um you showed me this yeah yeah they're both pretty like in a way they're controversial because they're speaking opinions like a lot and especially the guy who has his channel is called the right opinion they dive into controversies from either forever ago like it's this old legend and they like tell you the whole story and they do the research like really really well and they also like they explain like the psychological reasoning of things and like it's not like ignorant opinions it's it's it's really it feels i feel like i'm learning a lot like like i would if

there was all these youtube channels about drama like i i would ditch drama alert all those other places in a heartbeat because these people explain it in such depth and get every side of the story all the sources and try to be like kind of unbiased but then they have their and at the end they do have their opinion on like whether this person is a shitty person or, and they're really good videos. Like the right opinion, he, he goes about it like as a college lecture. And it's like, sometimes his videos are like an hour plus long, really diving into stuff. And then primming, he's like a little more silly. He's like this young guy.

He, he adds little jokes and in between his are much more short and sweet. So you can get either one like the right opinion did a whole a long ass um video about like everything that was wrong with 13 reasons why like crazy stuff like that but then just going into like oh onision's drama and it's like a four-parter it's crazy because they do that much research like from literally the beginning of time yeah i think i watched a couple of them um and i like them because they're not you know there's a lot of channels that just are them talking crap right and you're you're talking about ones that are almost like they're explaining to you what the drama is as opposed to being part of the drama exactly which i think is

really cool i think that, I would rather watch that than watch these channels that are just trying to be a part of it. Yeah. And just like make fun of people, and rip people apart. Exactly. Yeah, Primink blew up really quickly in this past year,

like insanely, like he was getting like only like 100,000 views or so, and now he's getting like millions in this last year because, yeah. How do you spell that again? Prim ink. It's prim I N K P R I N I N K. And then the right opinion is the other guy.

But yeah, I love them. I recommend them to a lot of people. If you ever want to just catch up on the history of all YouTube drama, just check them out. Cool. I love channels like that. All right, Dame.

All right, Damo. So I have so many things listed. I think I'm going to make my top five just the things that I watch most regularly with a couple shout outs for days of future past. Number

five coming in is a channel called Special Books by Special Kids. It is one of my favorites. It's this guy and his wife who go around interviewing people who have special conditions that they deal with every day. Maybe they were born with a condition or they like acquired it throughout their life, but he just interviews them and he interviews them as he would anybody else. It's very like, you know, hi, like what do you like

to do in your day? And sometimes they're like, you know, nonverbal. And so like a parent will be holding them, like answering for them or, but it's just things like, what do you, you know non-verbal and so like a parent will be holding them like answering for them or but it's just things like what do you you know want people to know about your son or um if you could say hi to everybody in the world what would you want to tell them about you and also you know if somebody has like a condition that is like visibly you're able to see that they have that condition it's questions like um how do you want someone to say hi to you uh is it okay for people to ask about your condition and things like that. So it's just very honest, cool conversations that like just sort of open your eyes about humanity and like what people struggle with.

And like there's certain people who like I've been interviewed where they're like, hey, this is one, she's one of 20 cases in the world. She wasn't supposed to make it past a baby. And now she's like my adult daughter. We love her very much. This is what our family is like. You know, it's just interesting stuff.

That's the most, I don't know, that's the most like Damien and like top five of just like, well, there's this super heartfelt channel that's the most inclusive. It is. Those are the types of channels, I come across those occasionally and those are the channels

that I'll fall down a rabbit hole. And you end up at like 2 a.m. just sobbing on your couch, just being like, this is the best channel. It's so nice. Yeah. Like learning about people that have different lives. I hope people show that channel to their kids. That feels like a great channel.

Yeah. Absolutely. Is it designed for, I would assume that was almost the intention. It's designed for everyone to listen to. I don't know if they do this aspect of it anymore, but the reason it's called Special Books by Special Kids is during that interview process, they would have the kid like write a book, maybe just withdrawing or like, you know, have their parents help them like tell

a story or something. And then they sort of like put that book together or they compile them all. I forget exactly how they did it, but then it's like, look, this is your book that you wrote and you get to get this message to the world, which is pretty darn cool. And the other cool thing about it is all the comments are super positive. So maybe there's someone who has a condition that makes it difficult to like be out and be social, but then it's like a million messages of being like, I would love to be your friend. Nice to meet you.

And like, Oh, it's so cool. That's so cool. I feel like, I feel like Anthony tries to kind of do that for like an older audience as well. Like with,

with interviewing, having a day in the life of all these different kinds of people from different backgrounds. I'm digging that style of stuff. It reminds me of essentially like Humans of New York type of thing. Where it's just kind of like, hey, we're not trying to put an angle on this.

Here is this person and here is them. It's like feeding into curiosity, just genuinely. Yeah, but you know, cause with media so many interviews are so skewed, like they're trying to get an answer. Whereas with those it's just, hey, here's your chance to say whatever you want. And I love that.

Yeah, it's very, very cool. So go show them some love for sure. Special books by special kids. I might tell my, I might have my brothers show my nieces that channel. Yes. Wow, because even more wonderful kids? They're like five and six. So I feel like that'd be great.

I feel like my one niece would love that channel. That's so cool. I'd love that. Yay. All right. That's round one. Round one. We're doing it, y'all.

This is not easy. Number Yay. All right, that's round one. Okay. Round one. We're doing it y'all. This is not easy. Number four. All right, so you guys are keeping it present day, which I respect, that was smarter. I'm gonna dip into old school here. Okay. This is a channel, this was a channel that for a long time was my absolute favorite, but a long time ago.

I would wait for him to post new videos and it meant a lot because I lived in LA and so much of his stuff was about Californians opinions on things. I'm of course talking about Kasim G. Yes. Kasim was awesome. Yes.

I mean, back in the day, back in like 2009, people didn't subscribe to channels as much. People weren't as much like, oh, I follow this channel and I wait for them to upload. You kind of went to YouTube and would just do your thing. But Kasim, I would go in and I would look for his stuff. Oh my gosh, yeah. And his California on, he would go to Venice,

which if you live in LA, you know, Venice Beach is the most insane place in California. It is a stretch of a boardwalk where you just have all sorts of people and all sorts of crazy people. And he would interview them about any topic and it was always gold and he would cut it together so well. He would do that. He would also, what was also,

probably the biggest was he would go to Comic-Con and he would interview. Yes, these were my favorite videos. Yes, California on Comic-Con. You're Comic-Con on. Comic-Con on stuff and he would just to Comic-Con. And he would interview. Yes, these were my favorite videos. Yes, Cali on Comic-Con. You're Comic-Con on. Comic-Con on stuff. And he would just roast these people, just get the best stuff.

I believe that's. Oh, he's so funny. I think she obviously blew up on her own, but I think that's kind of where Jessica Nigri, like she, cause he would interview her. I know that's how I interviewed she was. He would find her every year, right? He would interview her every year. But they're just a joy.

And then he also did. What is it? It's the he would interview porn stars. Oh, yeah. Going Deep, which is copied by Logan Paul. Yeah. Logan Paul is just blatantly.

He literally called it Going Deep, too. Yep. But but I highly recommend going back and watching a lot of those California awns and Comic-Con-ons. I wonder how they've aged.

Those were from a different time. I'm curious, too. Yeah, because I'm pretty sure a few of the things are a little... I should point out, I have not watched, I didn't re-watch these videos, but I just remember how much I loved them when I was a teenager. Obviously, there's probably a lot of stuff that's not okay. So forgive me if it's lightly i think the comic-con the comic-con ons are i would check those out those ones were the most fun i feel like

i remember he yeah there's there might be some dodgy stuff in those oh i'm sure but like part of those videos were there his brand his brand was also making the situation as awkward as possible yeah very much he would interview people on the street and he would say the things that would try to make things uncomfortable dude i was such a big casam g fan like he had that one series called ask casam yes and i literally one of my questions is on it i asked him he was like cordy ruth miller asks what is your ideal sandwich and he like made some jokes yeah and i was like, Courtney Ruth Miller asks, what is your ideal sandwich? And he like made some joke. Whoa. That's so cool. That's so fun.

That's so great. That's great. That's a good one. The hard hitting questions from reporter Courtney Miller. I know. That's a good question. Like if I was a fan, I would have killed it on Show With No Name.

You know what I mean? Like I would have asked all the greatest questions. So good. Boom. Nice. That's a good one. That's a really good one. Thank you. that whole generation

of youtubers like the sedation remember the station no yes all those youtubers like came together it was a shay carl carl i justine i justine um a bunch of them all together like they were probably like lisa lisa nova Yeah. And then that became that MC. Maker. Yeah. Maker. Yeah. That became Maker.

Wow. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. We can dive in after we keep going. Number four. Number four. All right.

My number four. This YouTuber, I feel like I've talked to you guys about him a little bit, maybe shown you guys videos. It's this guy named Ramsey. Totally not well known at all he literally posts rust videos and he he's um i think he's from switzerland or like he has that accent what's the which one which country i'm very dumb hello welcome to i am very dumb which accent is like sounds like um australian but it's a little different oh new zealand yeah new zealand i think or somewhere around there he's from around there um and he plays rust on like local

it could it could also be it's it's tough to decipher a lot of like there's a lot of european accents that i don't yeah fully recognize so he he creates these rust videos but it's like it's not just like normal gameplay he you'll like find really cool he like will play for weeks and then he'll edit it all together and he'll have like a crazy storyline um and sometimes he'll go into the deepest deep like meanings of like why online gaming like those games can be really toxic and unlike unfriendly to new gamers and and then he'll have like a crazy storyline where they find hackers and like infiltrate their whole base and like get rid of them all. And he edits them.

He'll have a score and he'll edit to the beat of the score, like building and shooting and all this stuff. That's pretty cool. And he puts so much work into his videos. The thing is, I don't think he's uploaded in like a year because he works so hard that he literally had to take a break. I remember I tweeted at him a while back just being like, hey, dude, you're really talented. And he responded and was really sweet. But I don't play Rust.

I probably would suck at it if I tried, but I love watching him play it. For anybody who doesn't know what Rust is listening to the podcast, can you give us a – it's Minecraft-y. Yeah, it's where you start a naked guy, and then you you find supplies and got it it's like minecrafty yeah where you find supplies and eventually build weapons and then your own base and then you get to the point where you have high-tech weapons and like locks on your on your bases and stuff like that um i love watching gameplay it's so weird like even when i haven't played a video game in

a while even in this quarantine i just love play. Well, it's kind of how our generation has been conditioned because we always watched the sibling, the cousin, the neighbor play the game or even going to a friend's house. Like, do you have any two player games? Well, no, but we can take turns playing the one player. You're still invested. So, you know, we grew up with that being a source of entertainment. So here we are. My number four, I'm assuming is going to be on some of y'all's lists already. So I'm not going to go super deep on it because you guys know this person more than I do. But maybe a year ago, you guys introduced me to Cody Coe and Noel Miller. Yes. Gosh, they're funny. They are two guys that just sort of comment on specific situations.

Maybe they'll like get their weirdest DMs and read about that, or they'll just find a specific creator and do a sort of a deep dive and just commentary on what's going on. Some of his biggest videos had to do with him making fun of kombucha guy like GT Dave. And then like eventually he was invited to go to GT Dave's compound and I don't know. There's nothing particularly crazy or different or special about the videos other than they just sort of hit the formula right. It just sort of clicks with both of them and their style of commentary. It just works.

It's funny. Yeah, absolutely. I love Cody's videos on his own, but when he and Noel are together, it's kind of like you're getting to watch two friends laugh at something and they don't realize they're being filmed. And they're just laughing about it.

They're not like, they're not even that, I don't think they're that mean. Like a lot of people think. Not really, no. I don't think so. I think they're just having fun, like having a good laugh. And like whenever people have like, they had their one where they make fun of that Mark McGrath video from the 90 my god it's my favorite one and mark mcgrath like tweeted at them they tweeted back me like yeah let's like like yeah he was on their podcast that's he was on their

podcast oh my god i need to listen to that it's like i love that they do that i love like gt dave when they made after they made that video about gt dave gt dave was like hey come to my house and i will show you around and And they're like, okay. They went. We're gonna get murdered, but sure. I love it, dude. Like, I love it. So good.

Yeah, like, I don't know. They're just so good, man. And Noel can just, Noel sometimes comes out with a joke that just destroys me. Like Cody will like do it, like he'll like assist and Noel will just slam dunk it. It's so. Set up and spike.

Exactly. Oh my God, they're a great duo. They're a great duo. And their music's awesome obviously. All right, well, my number three. Number three. Is a three-way tie and I'm glad we just knocked out one of them.

My three-way tie is between Cody Ko and Noel, Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden. Wow, all of them on one tier? The three heads of the Hydra. Yes, they are all similar, but there is a spectrum to it, right? Cody and Noel, I think, are just purely having fun making jokes.

Danny Gonzalez is making a lot of jokes, but there's also a lot of really good commentary there. And Drew Gooden, while he's obviously hilarious, has videos where he really breaks things down in an awesome way, and I love it. And he's just brutally honest sometimes. He's just so good, and he's so smart. I mean, obviously, all of them on Vine were really smart,

but now seeing them make full videos is great. And it can be hard to like get into that precedent of being able to really speak that way speak that strongly and that opinionated without being like dragged by people who think differently than you. With all of them there's such an element of self-deprecation too like they always are down

to make fun of themselves. That's probably what it is. And call themselves out a lot. Yeah. It's probably what it is. And call themselves out a lot. It's, yeah, man, I'll binge occasionally. Like, I think lately I've been watching a lot of Danny Gonzalez ones. Those ones are so great. He finds, like, just the weirdest indie movies

and just... I gotta subscribe to him. Oh, my God. It's so good. He did one about a mermaid movie that was made, like, in 2011. Danny, I love the bad movie ones, dude. Oh, so good.

There's like a rat tattooing weird B movie remakes. All those bad movies. Hey, and he does such a good job of breaking it down. And then occasionally they'll all make a video about the same thing

and it's fun to see all the different. Yeah, because it's all different jokes. It's pretty good. I'm subscribing to all of these people on either of y'all's list as we go. Dude. Because I will otherwise forget. Those ones are solid.

Those ones are so solid. Cody did one about, there's this channel that I actually love called The Cut where they do these like weird experimental social type games and there's this game called The Button where it's like a speed dating type thing

and as you're talking to another person, a button in the middle will occasionally flash red and you can press it to send them away and bring in a new person brutal and cody's cody's commentary on it is so good it's so good oh i'm excited okay i'm gonna watch that just like thinking out loud stuff i love it yeah it's just great it's great anyways that's the three-way tie. Nice. The Hydra. The heads of the Hydra. Is Noelle Miller the tail or the butt? Cody and Noelle are like one head. So it's like two heads on one stock and the other ones have the bone.

It's one neck, but two heads come out of that neck. Got it. And then Danny and Drew have their own. Oh my gosh. If they were in a Disney movie, they'd be the ones with the more Cockney accent and be like, Mom likes me best. No, she likes me best. And they're like, knock it off you two. Exactly.

Okay. I'm going to change. So my number three was Video Game Donkey, but we covered it and I think I want to give it to somebody else now. Okay. You can do that. I don't know if you guys know. I feel like you guys don't know a lot of these ones. This one, his YouTube channel is called Sad World.

Wait, no, no, no. Wait, that's your friend. That's your friend. Also a great channel. My friend Noah has a channel. Sorry. Yeah, that's a great channel. I'll talk about that later.

Honorable mention. Sorrow TV. See, as you can see, those are a little similar names. But yeah, Sorrow TV. He's this guy. And Damien, I think you'd really like him. Okay, I'll check it out. Basically, he's another guy and Damien I think you'd really like him okay he basically he's a faithless

another faceless youtuber but a very like talented I think he would be a voice actor if he's not already but he goes through reddit posts like of like he'll go like to are nice guys or are you tried or like

really like funny like top posts of the reddit page and he'll like voice them out and like and put them all together and it's it's really funny like just hearing him do all the funny voices and stuff i feel like i feel like i'm not explaining it that well no i feel like i know what you're talking about um i i really respect that you like all these very specific channels i didn't expect that. I don't know. I joined Smosh after you guys had already been there for a while.

And I watched a lot of YouTube. But there's all these like if somebody is not in your like network of people that you watch, how do you find them? So I find that more and more often you guys are stoked on a specific creator. And I'm like, oh, I've never even heard of them. So I expected like the top tier ones that I just don't know. Like, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, he's really cool.

He hasn't uploaded in a while, I feel like. Or maybe his stuff just hasn't come up. But yeah, he has he's like a very talented voice actor and singer. And the way he like voices out all these like Reddit posts of like screenshots of really dumb conversations or like Craigslist ads and stuff. That's a smart that's a smart channel idea. Yeah. Oh, it's great. That's really great.

I like that. I watched, oh my God, I think I've watched every single video of his. All right, Dame. Dame him in. All right. My number three is also a three-way tie. Oh, shit.

This section goes to the YouTubers who I started out with and then had a journey and I'm still with. So it's a three-way tie between Philip DeFranco, Smosh, and Shane Dawson. Because they are the first three YouTubers that I ever subscribed to. Philip DeFranco being, I think, the first. I watched Philip DeFranco back then and still do consistently

all the way till now. So it's been cool watching him grow. Smosh and Shane Dawson, I both watched for like a year or two when I was a teenager and then sort of fell off when I went to college and then came back to. Shane, I'm incredibly impressed with his journey and the type of content that he's putting out now. Completely different from what he did back in the day. And I think it's a really cool growth and we've gotten a lot of cool content out of it. And then Smosh, like I would have put this here, even if I didn't work here, I don't know. I watched them back in the day, really enjoyed it. And, you know,

sort of like, well, I guess maybe I could do sketch comedy on YouTube too. Maybe I could do a channel or something in that just sort of planted that seed. And now lo and behold, we're here. That's great. It's fascinating. Philip DeFranco has, he's one of the only YouTubers I know who's really kept a very similar format the whole time.

Like everyone else, like most channels have had, they've had to change, but Philip DeFranco has stayed pretty consistent. It's pretty interesting. Yeah, it's cool when like you become kind of the first person like that comes to someone's mind when they think of like a current events

or like a news-based YouTuber. Yeah, it's interesting. Like he's one of those where you're like, oh yeah, that one. He's always had it on lock, yeah. Any changes he's made, I feel like he's done to garner more like respect from people who wouldn't necessarily

watch YouTube otherwise. Like, you know, he started off with the name SXE Phil, sexy Phil, and it's like, you know, eventually he's like, I can't be taken seriously with this. I'm gonna change to Philip DeFranco. And then he launched like DeFranco News

and he was the start of SourceFed. He did, you know, yeah, he's got Road Rocket. Yeah, I remember that era when YouTube names stopped being like usernames and it started being like our actual names. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, cause damn. I remember I watched a ton of Smosh being like usernames and it started being like our actual names yeah exactly um yeah yeah because

because damn i i remember i watched a ton of smosh in like 2008 me and my friend would sit after school on my sister's laptop and just watched all of them ever just click click click um and then i got to the point i feel like i've said this maybe before but i used to i got to the point where i only watched the bts i would go to the Smosh.com website and only watch behind the scenes because I liked it almost more than the sketches. It was fun to just see them be silly. I didn't even know about the Smosh,

the Ian is bored channel at all. Yeah. And then Shane Dawson, I was also, I think I was in the same boat with you, like way back when. I didn't really watch his like food videos era. None of that. It was like the really early stuff like ask Shane

yes um like all the character based stuff and then like he he had all those characters um and then he started doing like poop jokes and it like made me stop watching you know what I get gross I think that was the same thing with me there would be like specific like I

enjoyed his stuff when I first saw it and then there were certain characters that he did that even then I was like I don't know about this one chief and then it started getting all like poop jokey and I was like okay this isn't for me it'd be like eating poop jokes yeah and I'm like not for me but then like you know watching his evolution

and seeing him come back into the limelight with his new style I've just been like so impressed it's really fascinating yeah because his channel is a, it's a completely different channel. I've never seen a 180 like that on YouTube. I mean, completely different. It's cool.

I love watching that. So now having a makeup line, like seriously. Yeah, man. Yeah, it's really interesting. It's really interesting. He's kind of a genius in that way like as much controversy and as whatever opinions you can have about him there are a lot of youtubers that like they have all that controversy but at the end of the day they're doing something right

if they're being able to be successful and i don't even know what the word to use but like the fact that he's still like one of the top youtubers and he's definitely yeah there's an element of respect that i have for him because being on be working in this industry it's so hard like there's no way of guaranteeing a video is going to get views right like not even there's no way not you can't guarantee that controversy is going to work for you can't guarantee that funny or drama or a documentary is going to work like you don't know but sh Shane has so consistently lately, like consistently made the biggest YouTube videos. And he like takes risks.

He'll take huge risks where he's like, I'm not gonna make a video for three months. And then I'm gonna drop a four part, four hour series. And like anyone else on YouTube would be terrified and would never do that. But he takes that lead. And even if it's different, even if it's a video that's different from his other videos,

he'll be able to edit it in a similar way. Even like the sponsored segments, he makes it fit into the style that people are coming to him for. It's really cool. It's fascinating. It's such an engaging style too, because I'll stop like harping on him in a second, but like I don't generally care about makeup.

That's never something I've cared about before. And yet his series of working with Jeffree Star to make his own line is one of my favorite bits of content for years. I remember just like watching it and having it on in the background while I played like the Outer Worlds, yeah, Outer Worlds. And it was just such a good like binge session

of like video game and content and just good memory. And we even made a sketch, I forget which, is it every vlogger, every vlog ever, where we make fun of like his editing style where like a thing will happen, it's like, wait. We're out of half and half, it's like, it's like, oh my God, oh my God. And I'm like, we can make fun of it,

but the editing in his documentaries is stellar. It's stellar. It's so good, it's so good. All right, is it back to me? Yeah, is it number two now? Oh, number two. Number two. Holy smokes.

So this one's a big, so I have a pick, but then I have a big old thing. So my number two goes to Barats and Beretta. Whoa! Barats and Beretta was probably, it was the reason I started watching YouTube because I would find their videos on,

I would find their videos on E-bombs World and I'd be like, this is so funny. Oh my God. I just loved it. It was just really like sharp, fast sketch comedy. And then, so I would go to YouTube and just watch all of their stuff and they stayed so consistent for so long.

And obviously like Joe eventually became my boss and now he's a peer and it's really awesome. And he's really kept that same energy. But I also wanted to throw in just sketch comedy from back in the day on YouTube. And there's so many that aren't around anymore. Britannic, Derek comedy, obviously, Donald Glover coming out of it.

And another one, so my favorite YouTube video of all time is a video called Eat Randy by Julian Smith. And Julian Smith was legendary in that time. And his sketches hold up so hard. They are not problematic. They are pure, good. Give them the Malk, Josh. Malk, I was gonna say Malk.

Dude, who may want a glass of Malk? Just like they were so well shot. They are perfect. Oh my gosh. They really are. He was surprised you with the talent where suddenly you'll pan over and he's arm wrestling with himself.

And you're like, how did he do that? He put in so much effort. So good. on those sketches. No. You'll pan over and he's arm wrestling with himself. Yeah. And you're like, how did he do that? He put in so much effort. So good. Videos being made back in 2010, they look incredible by today's standards.

Yeah. And I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch, but just those sketch groups around that time were so good. Yeah, dude. Sketch comedy was it.

And there's something I did want to say is, you know, there's an element when we still get comments lately. It's rare, though, but we still get comments where like, I miss the old Smosh. This isn't as good as the old Smosh, whatever.

And what I think those people don't realize what they're saying is they miss the old YouTube. And it's like, yeah, man, there was an era of YouTube that was where weird, dumb, like absurd sketch comedy that wasn't necessarily making fun of a specific thing. It was just a weird scenario. Those videos were always number one because the way YouTube was and the algorithm and the front page, it favored that. That stuff could make it to the front and people doing that could do that and and be successful the reason most of those channels i named either

had to move on or are no longer making stuff is because you it's so much harder yeah to make that now like yeah like that's a good point dude and we'll make a sketch we'll make a sketch that get the comments were like this reminds me of old Smosh. This is awesome. Those videos often get the least amount of views because and it's not because people don't like them or whatever. It's because it's just the way YouTube is designed now. Yeah, that stuff is like unless they're along like we've we've started to write our

sketches longer and then including outtakes and stuff. Some long enough to because otherwise, if it's just a couple minute video it's not substantial like on youtube like if you want to try and support yourself or support a team of people it's just not gonna work it's you have to be purely doing it for fun like gus still puts out those 37 bangers yes but he's also he has his podcast and like other things that he's doing because at the end of the day like it just doesn't it doesn't yeah and and beyond that like you know beyond the business aspect nobody took away old smosh those videos are still up and that goes for any channel but like i think from a creative aspect like i've only been doing this for a few years now but

you know for someone like ian who's been doing this from the start you can't do the same type of thing every day for 10 years and not lose your damn mind like you gotta grow whatever growth means to you you gotta do that absolutely but yeah basically just you know it's all those people

saying like I miss the old this I miss the old I miss the old stuff too like I loved that era man but it can't be that era anymore yeah because it doesn't it doesn't work if it did there would be a ton of sketch groups like that that are super popular yeah but that there's they're not the most popular channels now are not absurd weird original sketch channels they're not even Gus like he he has his sketches but they're dispersed amongst like commentary and yeah it's impossible to just survive

off that alone it's really tough it's a miracle honestly that we continue to make original sketches sometimes like it's it's it's yeah not easy to do but but that era all of those people were good

just so good. Good number two, good number two. Well done. Well done. Quarterly number two. My number two was Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden. Hell yeah. But you covered it really well, honestly,

because they're so great and they're both great in their own ways, but also all like very similar. but i'm gonna throw it to an honorable mention anyway this youtuber helped my life a lot in a weird way um it's nikki tutorials she is the person who taught me like how to do my makeup when i first started at smosh i had no clue what i was doing and also my skin was like really fucking bad so and then the makeup artist it just like it wasn't working and i knew i knew that especially for like pit videos when we were still shooting in la i needed to get better at makeup otherwise like camera was just not gonna like me or that's just how i felt at the time and i wasn't really like into beauty at all

until i started watching her videos and like opened up my mind to like all this because it's a really creative thing and I learned to love makeup and it is like it's my hour long meditation now it's like 30 minutes because I wear less but used to be like an hour two minutes of just like our hour two hours of me just like quietly just like painting a canvas that was my face and like and then she came out as trans and last year she like because some people were trying to leak that and really suck for her but she came out as that and she's like still obviously still nikki and like she's killing it i'm really proud of her she's she's got her hands in all the right right places you know i have a lot of respect for uh all the beauty channels on youtube i don't

watch them because i don't you know wear makeup there's no practical purpose for me watching them but uh it's a it's an aspect of it that I really respect and I have no problem I think it's like it's like the number one thing on YouTube at this point and I I think it's well deserved like I didn't I didn't think about that about how like makeup isn't something if you're a girl growing up and like if you don't have anyone to teach you, YouTube is so great. Like it's really awesome that there's so much. And it's also a thing in order to be successful at it on YouTube, you have to be good at it. Like you can't, you have to be actually talented at it.

Yeah, and if you see like those clips of like her first videos and like Bretman Rock, dude, he's also a huge honorable mention for me. Like I would put him right up there with Nikki as number two because like they both started like, their videos are like super low quality. Them just like doing it because they thought it was fun. And now there are these huge,

like huge people in the world that are like getting collabs with like the biggest makeup companies and stuff like that. And it's all because they dedicated their time to learning and getting better. It's hard, man. When we did that video where I tried to do Olivia's makeup. Oh yeah that never went out. Oh that

never went out. That's right. We had the boys do full face on the girls. Yeah. Whoa why didn't it go out? Can I ask? We lost the footage. The shutdown. When Swash, when Defy went under and we shut down we lost that video. But I did Olivia's makeup and I tried my damnedest.

You were so frustrated. And I was so mad because I was like, this is so much harder than I thought. Like I was like, God. I thought like it would apply super easily. And I picked, I decided to try to pick like a crazy color and it looked awful and everything that I'd done at that point was ruined.

I was like, this sucks. I'm never doing makeup again. But I will say it is significantly harder to do someone else's makeup than your own. So like, it's okay. Don't be so hard on yourself. I was so frustrated. I really, I tried.

Shane, don't worry, dude. Everybody is really, really bad at something. Just so bad. I'm just super confident when I do my makeup. But then when we did the video where I randomly did Damien, I was so insecure. I look great. I love that.

We have to do that again. It's fine. We have to do that again. It was so fun. It made me have a lot of respect for the people who do like crazy colors because that stuff,

there's a science to it. Yeah. Like you can't just be like, yeah, I'm going to use yellow on your eyelids. Like, no, that just doesn't work for some people. And I don't know that. Yeah. And there's certain products that just like the yellow won't cake on the way you want it to. It's hard. It's always so

impressive when working with a makeup person because they are like, they always say to me like, oh, you have olive tones in your skin. And I'm like, I'm as pale as freshly fallen snow. How did you get that how do you know yes i am italian and that's how i have it i don't know don't know any of it it's all foreign language to me yeah nancy used to work at sephora for a long time and she was she she worked out there and helping people with their makeup and stuff like that she she works out

she's on the smash team but yeah kudos man number two number two that's it now we're on to number oh no it's you know it's your number two i'm my number two number two that's it now we're on to number oh no it's your number two i'm my number two okay this is another three-way tie the category is experiential things through someone else um so it's three-way tie between hot ones the try guys and good mythical morning hey that's a solid one that's a solid one thank you so good mythical morning I think I've mentioned this before I got super super into them during the defy shutdown I had seen their content before and

enjoyed it but I started watching everything before there were ever any rumbles about like maybe mythical buying smosh had no idea but it was all I would do until I was like you know getting ready to get some work done for the day. But for the most part, I was only watching Rhett and Link videos.

So that was crazy that that ended up working out that way. Hot ones the same way. I enjoy experiencing stuff through others. I think that's a major genre on YouTube. And there's just something about watching someone undertake a challenge, really fight through it, and then just ask yourself, I wonder how I would do with that. I really want to do that. I don't know when I'd be good. I don't, it's just, it makes you put yourself in their shoes.

And then the Try Guys are the same. I mean, we just got back from Australia and tried a bunch of amazing things, but now they are uploading their footage of when they went to Australia and tried a bunch of amazing things. Half the stuff they're doing, we've already done. And I'm still watching it being like, what's it like for these guys to experience this? Like, they're just so good at getting you through it. I don't know.

It's really well done for sure. It is. They know how to put on a show. Like when they hosted the streamies, I don't know if you guys were there or who was there that year, but that was the coolest thing. Eugene and his like alter ego. So dope. Yeah, they're all and Rhett and Link and all of them. They're dope yeah they're all and retin link and all of them they're just so they're all very polished yeah i'll say that about all the three of those channels they're

very polished channels there's a lot of channels that i love they're very chaotic and i love them for being chaotic and retin link and hot ones um are and and try guys even but are are so the opposite in my opinion they're so like, they know exactly what they're doing and they're following their process and it works. And it's, they're easy watches, like they're easy watches. There's something about those channels specifically, I think you like nailed it, Shane, is that like, they're very produced in a good way.

It's like what YouTube would, it's YouTube's answer to like television. Like half of the charm of YouTube is like, ah, it's two buddies in their basement with terrible lighting and just having fun and uploading. But there's also such respect that I have for the channels that are like, this is our show. This is our set.

We've booked guests, we've done it all right. And even the Try Guys who are just going like maybe restaurant to restaurant or experience to experience, they don't have the luxury of having a set. It still just looks so nice. There's almost like a glow about their videos where it's like, it's dreamy. You wanna be in that dream with them.

I don't know. It's- I think that's great, man. I think that's very solid. I get lost in those for sure. Are we on to the Honor Boys? I think we're onto the Honor Boys. Wait, I thought, what about number one?

Well, we're doing honorable mentions before number one. Before number one, oh, okay, okay. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, sick, sick, sick, sick. All right. Okay, so my honorable mentions are, I have a bunch here, but obviously Gus Johnson, love that guy, internet comment etiquette, his channel's fantastic.

One that I wanted to add to be more of a serious one internet comment etiquette. His channel's fantastic. One that I wanted to add to be more of a serious one that I do watch all the videos of is, I don't know how to pronounce it, Kurtzgat, or it's in a nutshell, it's a channel that- Oh, Kurtzgesagt. Kurtzgesagt, yeah.

Kurtzgesagt. They do really great breakdowns of some of life's biggest questions, or they'll just, they'll do a video on wormholes, wormholes right but they animate it all and they try to break it down in the most factual just like straightforward way interesting some of the videos are so beautiful uh i highly recommend going to that channel and watching all of their stuff uh primitive technology is awesome it's a dude i believe in news i believe in new zealand i'm not sure where he's at. He doesn't speak. He just is out in the middle of the woods, literally building stuff with his bare hands.

He builds like a hut, a chimney, an iron furnace, like everything by hand. It's incredible to watch. He's Minecraft the dude. Literally, and it's just dead silent for like 10 minutes. It's such a relaxing watch. The lo-fi chill beats to relax, study, girl. Yes.

Love that channel. And I think that's it. I'm sure there's a million I'm missing, but those ones specifically. Nice. All right. Number honor. Number honor.

So this girl I discovered in the last several months she's super i think she's young i don't know how old she is but her name is judy d she's uh she does beauty stuff but she's like not a beauty guru she like her most popular videos she literally has dozens of them um going to the worst reviewed makeup artists yes you showed me one of these yeah she lives in ecuador and i guess like the the laws of like having like a sanitary or like having a beauty salon they're like very different so like new beauty salons come pop up and go out of business like all the time so like she had like an endless supply for a while of all these different um and she she does hides the face

doesn't show the location so she's not trying to smear anybody, any brand, any company. And she edits them so funny. Like you can tell maybe she watches like PewDiePie because her editing style is very like meme-esque. And then she'll do like serious ones where she's like, okay, I'm going to go to this place. And they're going to legit do the Korean 10-step skincare routine like with all their products. And it's like very genuine and real and yeah speaking of pewdiepie like i i have to do a little bit of honorable mention for him because i've been watching him a lot in the last year um like obviously he's been through quite a bit of controversy but he's very like self-aware and he's he seems to have grown

from it and he he's just very good at having like a strong community and in setting like the inside jokes with with his fans and like yeah his style it's just very it's just like him being him i gotta do a shout out to jenna marbles she's obviously the best um her and julian are so talented together like it's so cute when it's clearly it's a jenna marbles video but julian's always in the back working the camera and the lights and he'll pop in for a moment or two it's it's like them being silly together and it's just their life like it's always them in their house just doing whatever they feel like doing and it's always fun jack's films deserves more credit he's been around for so long and he has 100 years like literally i used to watch all

that stuff like your grammar sucks like he he he's had some legacy content man obviously gus johnson smosh games alliance uh wow shout out i just saw that in my list of channels i'm subscribed to incredible kyle sullivan oh my god liam kyle sullivan is a huge shout out to mine if you guys don't know who i'm talking about, do you know who I'm talking about? No. Oh, we were talking about Liam Kyle Sullivan. Obviously.

Yeah. Obviously. Let's get some shoes. Oh, yeah. Oh my God. Of course. These shoes suck.

Jesus. These shoes rule. Dude, he edited for Smosh Pit for a while too. I know. Back when we were at Defy. That's so cool. That's right.

Such a chill guy. Amazing. That's right. He was king for us he was the freaking king that was the first youtube video i ever saw might be mine too mother's day the brats and better at a sketch that was my first like ebombs world sketch i'd ever seen but yeah those are my those are my honorable honor boys nice i've got quite a handful of uh of honorable mentions so i'm only gonna go like in depth on like a couple the rest i'm just gonna like shout out uh terminal montage is incredible

it's an animation channel very very funny video game based stuff it's the kind of stuff you'd see on like flash player back in the day but made modern um so it's they've got their something about series so it'll be like something about smash bros and it'll be like a 10 minute parody something about super mario world something about kirby it's just the classic kind of stuff you'd see on those flash websites back in the day so they're just so good check them out did you know gaming i like it does deep dives on gaming stuff and just trivia small ant is someone i discovered recently small ant is great they do like speed runs of like they'll be like can i beat breath of like, they'll be like, can I beat Breath of the Wild using only a shield?

Can I beat Pokemon gold and silver when my Pokemon that I have change every time with a randomizer? Like, can I beat Pokemon without taking any damage? Like, it's incredible. Oh, cool. Love that. That kind of stuff.

Super Mega, Super Mega is a duo of, they're Ryan and Matt. Matt and Ryan. And they're funny as hell. I've met Matt. He's awesome. They're very like game grumpy in a way. Alt Shift X does Westworld and Game of Thrones deep dives. He's the one I forgot to mention.

I forgot to mention Alt Shift X. He's great. That's great. Vati Vidya does Dark Souls and Bloodborne deep dives. We've got Bird, another animation channel channel B-E-R-D Ocular Nebula they do electronic music and I've been following them since college and they get like 600 views and that's it

so show them some love for sure cause they're great Mike Falzone Jenna Marbles Kev Jumba Brytanic Furious Pete Julian Smith Bratz and Beretta honorable words alright we gotta keep it moving I know it's okay if we go a little bit and Baretta. Honorable words. Wow. Done. All right. Those are my folks. We gotta keep it moving.

Yes we do. I know, it's okay if we go a little bit over. So Courtney, I think you should, so I have a feeling you should say your number one first because I feel like Damien and I- We do. Okay, cool. That's fine, that's perfect.

Okay, so my number one, this is the reason why I was kind of quiet when you guys mentioned Tiny Meat Gang. They are my number one favorite, like by far and for many reasons. Obviously, Cody Ko and Noelle are super talented. Their music videos are freaking chef's kiss. And I listen to the songs all the time. They're really well done.

I can't wait to hear more of what they have. Their content is awesome. Like their That's Cringe, which I wish they did more of. I feel like they've dialed it back because they were under some scrutiny of like you can't be so mean to these youtubers and but they're just being honest and funny and just like real and then they come in cody co and his girlfriend have like their wholesome content together where they just like play games or make a song like cody cody is now he streams on twitch these days but he'll post uh like basically a video of him just like making

a song. And then when he's done, he'll like shoot a quick little music video of that song he created real time with you guys making it about something stupid like grilled cheese. That's awesome. And so he can be hilarious, like wholesome. And then their podcast, it's like they were the first podcast I ever started listening to like over a year ago, I think. And it's my comfort, especially during this time.

I look forward to each episode coming out because it's just so great to either hear their real opinions on stuff or them just messing around doing bits and characters. And the fact that a couple of us got to go see their their tour a while back and like see what they do it blew my mind just opened up to like oh my gosh this is like real they're extremely talented it's not like a stupid like magcon meet and greet show like they are a two-man stand-up like thing and i'm just so excited for them to continue doing what they do and yeah they're mark mcgrath was on their podcast and they've had like post malone like a lot of big people come on their pod uh and it's always just good to listen it's awesome i love them they're great solid number one all right all right boys since since we have a uh probably the same one mine's a three-way tie so i'll name the first two and then for the last one

we'll probably say okay you gotta recall what this. I can't, I can't recall what this might be. Oh, yeah. Tough to decide. So the three that take my number one spot are Video Game Dunkey, Brian David Gilbert of Polygon, and then the last one, but the biggest one, the biggest number one of all, Shane. One, two, three. Game Grumps. Oh, yeah.

Love the Game Grumps. And I, for me, I lumped in Ninja Sex Party and just Egoraptor's animation into that whole umbrella. For sure. Yeah. That's great.

They're so great. I don't know. I started watching them like right at the very beginning of their channel. I don't know. It was my first ever one-bedroom apartment in LA

right after Disney Channel. I had nothing to do all day, every day. I looked forward to their uploads at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. every single day. It's what got me out of bed. It's what gave structure to my life. It was Aaron and John then. Now it's

Aaron and Danny. They're just so funny. They're a big consistent thing in my life. I only started watching when it was Aaron and Danny, but I remember, Damien, you telling me about Game Grumps when it first started. You were like, dude, you've got to check this out. It's great. You were like, dude, you gotta check this out, it's great. And I was like, yeah, I don't know, because I wasn't a consistent YouTube watcher,

but when Danny joined, I started watching more, and then I really, it's the only channel I've ever, I had a couple years where I was watching it every day. Like, and that rarely happens for me. Yeah, you turned me on to them, Shane. I have vivid memories of when I lived with Wes, having their highlight funny moment videos playing while I was cleaning my room and doing laundry

because they are super funny. Dude, they're so good. Similar to how Cody and Noelle will find a joke that they'll keep riffing on, Game Grumps will do it, but it's just weirder. It's more in line with my weird sense of humor. They'll just make this weird image in their head and they'll just start riffing on that. And it can go for so long

because their videos allow for that. And I just, Danny Sex Bang is just, man, that guy is awesome. That guy is so awesome. And I like, I think we both look up to them in different ways. You and I, Shane, I don't want to speak for you, but I sort of get that vibe. We're like, whether personally or professionally, they're just like a few years ahead where we just can look a little bit and be like, wow, maybe in a couple of years, I'll be there too. I also respect the hell out of them for like not changing with the times and sticking to their format of like no face cam for gaming.

They changed up the type of games that they played because they sort of had to, you know, like we talked about the algorithm stuff, but they've kept their style consistent for the most part. And it just feels good. Feels really cool. And Danny Sexbang really seems like he's just having fun. Yeah.

His music videos are just ridiculous. Yeah. That one music, the music videos are awesome. Yeah. Like that one, Danny, don't you know,

right? Yeah. I mean, yeah. The, the first thing that turned me on to Ninja Sex Party was a dinosaur laser fight. Yeah.

Back in the day. And that was before Danny joined. Isn't that a song about like what dubstep sounds like? No, no. Dinosaur Laser Fight back in the day. And that was before Danny joined. So I- Isn't that a song about what dubstep sounds like? No, no. Dinosaur Laser Fight is him teaching a science class about how the dinosaurs died. Oh.

And yeah, so I knew that Ninja Sex Party before Danny joined Game Grumps. Wow, I didn't know that. I was a Danny Sex Bang fan before he became part of it. That's why I started watching Game Grumps. I was like, wait, I'm a fan of him. And I loved Egoraptor's animation. I was an Egoraptor fan and that's how I found it, yeah. That's why I started watching Game Grumps. I was like, wait, I'm a fan of him and I loved Egoraptor's animation. I was an Egoraptor fan and that's how I found it.

Everyone was, I mean, Egoraptor was huge. He did like the Metal Gear Awesome. So good. That's cool. Girl Chan in Paradise. That's how like our, I think us making fun of anime in the way that we do probably came from that. You need more training!

Yeah, like that kind of. Some solid stuff. Good stuff. That's so cute. Solid stuff. This is a great, these are great top fives, even though it's like top eights with all the ties and triple ties. It was more like a top 20.

Yeah, but you know, we love YouTube and that's why we're on it. We're gonna do that shoot dude. It's shoot dude time, boys. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude.

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The Jeremy G. Okay, his story begins as so. My first boyfriend played different instruments in high school and college. Okay, his story begins as so. making a lot of friends and getting along with other people greatly. I encouraged it because he was feeling lonely at first when he got there. And he then over text tells me about this girl that he wanted to take out on a date. I reminded him that we agreed to be exclusive to dating only each other. And his reply was the most pretentious response I ever read in my life, which was, you don't understand, Jeremy. I'm a musician, an an artist my love needs to be spread how could i deny others of my love and talents and so so he said so i respond with well then there well then you can go spread your love elsewhere we're done he then changes his relationship status the next day to interrelationship tagged with this girl. Oh goodness.

Tell you what. Oh my goodness. You just Matrix style dodged a bullet. Yeah. Can I say something? I don't think this counts as a shoot dude. I'm the same boat. This is a I'm sorry, dude.

Like this. This makes me wanna shoot a dude for you. Cause to me a shoot dude is when you mess up, right? That's what I- Like an embarrassing moment. My interpretation is, oh, you done messed up. You didn't realize you messed up until it happened, so shoot, dude.

This is- Yeah. Your shoot dude was dating a jerk. Yeah. That was your shoot dude, but- Yeah, I guess I can't assume gender. The name on this story is Jeremy G. But goddamn, I would still say shoot dude.

Like shoot dude, that sucks. But you definitely handled it very well. Cause sometimes it's just like, oh, this stuff happened to me and I don't know what to do. But spreading, I need to spread my love. Whoa, what the heck? Good for you for like sticking to your guns

on like what you want in your life. Like if you want an exclusive relationship, like some people would have been like, well, okay, maybe like, no, like that person sucks. And also there's no wrong way

to be in a relationship, but the communication has to be there. If you agreed on something, that's what you have to stick to. There are some people who are like, we'll do long distance,

but you have your fun and just but only love me. But if that's not the case, then like get them out of there. It's good on you for holding your ground. It's a blessing when a super toxic person gives you an open opportunity to cut them out of your life. And that was, man, that's a pure blessing. Like that person sucks and they gave you a wide opening to kick them out the door. They opened the door and you get to just kick them on out.

Never talk to them again. You just get to jettison them out the pod bay windows. And it's probably somewhat easy to do that because you're long distance anyway. Yeah. Also, by the way, Shane, that's incredible. Just floating in space. Long distance is the wrong distance. I know I'm not the first to say it,

but just throwing that out there. You have to be insanely, like, I think it has to be very far along. Yeah, it has to be like the most solid. You have to be like, we're engaged. And yes, we have to be apart for, or at least that level of seriousness. There has to be a solid timetable of like,

this is when we're going to be back together. If it's just for long distance, I don't know. That's a very opinionated thing, but I agree. I have a hard time believing it works. There just has to be an end point too. Like I broke up with an ex-girlfriend or we broke up with each other because of distance. But there was the question of like,

well, what if we can make it work? And I had to be like, well, why? You're moving across the country. I'm not moving there. You're not moving back to here. Yeah. So what we just call each other forever. Like my, my brother, my brother and sister-in-law did long distance for years, but it was when she was going to college.

So when she was going to college and they managed- But did they visit regularly and stuff like that? Yeah, they visited regularly and they also like, they knew, she knew she was coming back to where he lived. And so it was just, it was a temporary thing. Yeah. But it's tough, man. It's not easy. Well, anyways. I did long distance for like three months.

I've never done it. I couldn't, I couldn't. Yeah, it didn't end well, obviously. Well, certainly if people are saying, hey, I gotta spread my love, that is not an ideal situation for long distance. Don't call your stinky dick your love, alright? Whoa!

You got a stinky wiener! Stinky wee wee musician. Quit playing your guitar with your stinky wiener! Spreading your guitar everywhere. Don wiener spreading your guitar everywhere don't do it okay well this was fun hey you guys have good taste in youtubers thanks man you taste good too you've you guys have like shown me all my favorite stuff i feel like a lot of my favorite things are be from you guys um but yeah if you guys have a shoot dude those listening

or watching you can send your shoot dude story at shoot dude at smosh.com and it's shoot with two O's and dude with two O's as well D O O D shoot dude at smosh.com and if you guys love this podcast or at least mildly enjoy it why

not spread your opinions all over the internet and rate us five stars on your listening apps. Spread your love on those reviews. Yeah, spread your stinky love. And you know we're spreading our love every Wednesday. The full audio episode comes out on Wednesday and the full video on Fridays.

So you can see my stupid apartment on Friday. Yeah, I like that you just have mild flexing with all your flannels and stuff behind you. Yeah, there's so many kinds. Yeah, I like that you just have like mild flexing with all your flannels and stuff behind you. Yeah, there's so many kinds. Yeah. You could be camouflaged in Portland. Because all the buildings look like that. Bye.

Bye, guys. I always have to go to the bathroom after the podcast and it's always an emergency. I don't know what it is about like 50 minutes into the podcast, my body being like, it's time. But I'm going to stop down and I's always an emergency. I don't know what it is about like 50 minutes into the podcast, my body being like, it's time. But I'm gonna stop down and I'll be right back. Okay, bye bye. Bye, I'll miss you.

Bye.