Smosh Started With a LIP SYNC Video in a Bedroom

Two friends lip-syncing in a bedroom for fun became one of YouTube's very first superstars.

Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox were two teenagers goofing around with a camera in California.

Back in 2005, YouTube was brand new, and no one thought videos could be a job.

They filmed themselves mouthing TV theme songs, just to make each other laugh.

One silly lip-sync video exploded, pulling in millions of views almost overnight.

Smosh became one of the most-subscribed channels on the entire site.

Then a copyright claim wiped their biggest video off the site overnight.

Instead of quitting, they wrote their own sketches and built a comedy empire.

They showed a whole generation that two kids and a camera could build something real.

Long before it was a career, Smosh proved YouTube could make ordinary kids into stars.

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