Here’s an iceberg that I made about Classic Smosh and Ianthony related stuff! This is the first ever iceberg I’ve ever made so I apologise if it isn’t the best. I hope you like it though :)
Thank you @myspace-3ra for helping me figure out how to make an iceberg. I’m grateful for their help 😊
And also, if you want an explanation for any entries that you don’t understand the meaning of, you can comment on this post, dm me, or send an ask about it. I’ll be happy to explain an entry the best I can, especially since none of the entries are made up or anything like that.
I don’t know exactly how many entries are on here, but if I had to guess, there’s probably around a hundred of them lol.
Question! I see a lot of fans tag Ianthony as ☀️🔍 and I was wondering why. - Liz (cannonpenis) (I can't send asks from my sideblog, lol.)
That's because right after they bought Smosh back in an interview Anthony compared Ian to the sun and himself to a magnifying glass. Ian has this fire that creates ideas and Anthony is able to focus and refine those ideas.
A tumblr user began using the ☀️🔍 to represent them.
When I first came into the fandom in July of 2023 people were using it and also discussing variations.
It's stuck since then and is just a very sweet ianthony symbol for them and also is a way to kind of represent them without necessarily saying ianthony.
(Also, Ian shared the quote from Anthony on his insta and did this face -> 🥹)
This is an explanation for every single entry in the bottom layer of my Classic Smosh/ Ianthony iceberg! I will warn you, it’s a long post.
Wheelchair boy: This is a flash animation that Ian and Anthony made together in 2003. It was uploaded to the Smosh website and even though it was lost for many years like the other flash animations from that time, it has been found, and I even wrote a fanfic that was inspired by it. Here’s a link to a re-upload so you can watch it yourself: https://youtu.be/e65gFQPqh9Y?si=U3uTvSAkIMSU2xVG
Bri Bri boom: This was also a flash animation that Ian made in early 2003 before he made Wheelchair boy with Anthony. Link to my post that shows it and explains the context around it: https://www.tumblr.com/boxxedsmosher05/812705962896064512
Anthony’s name in Ian’s halo fanfic: There is one fanfic Ian made where he briefly references Anthony by calling out to “Ant” about how he’s famous now or something like that but it’s only a small thing. However, there’s a couple comments that suggest that Anthony was mentioned in at least one other story, but that story could possibly be lost as I cannot find it anywhere. Here’s a post I made that shows the comments: https://www.tumblr.com/boxxedsmosher05/791079776842596352/deviantart-discover-the-largest-online-art
The Ianthony report: This was google doc that someone made in 2016 about this theory about how Ian and Anthony are supposedly together and that the girlfriends they had at the time were fake, although I don’t really believe it. I cannot directly link the doc, but I can link the tumblr post that has a link to it on it, so here you go: https://www.tumblr.com/ianthony-report-blog/147885363940/taytaytaysmosh-alright-well-stuff-is
Persia destroyed remastered (and other lost flash animations): Persia destroyed remastered was a flash animation that Ian made in 2005. Unfortunately, it is lost, just like many other flash animations that other people created for the site. Snapshot of it on the old Smosh website: https://web.archive.org/web/20051204091437/http://www.smosh.com/view.php?id=1925
NSFW Ianthony edits: Um, this one is kind of self explanatory but also not. It can also refer to multiple different things but there’s one thing I wanted to mention here. There are these video edits of Ian and Anthony that “make Ianthony real”. what would happen in them is that they would be edited to say some pretty sexual things to each other and stuff like that, although I will assure you that these edits aren’t very good and aren’t very detailed. Here’s a link to these videos if you’re curious: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNR3rzjE4bUu7JsFIp51cXdrhq8E3VThW&si=XVCY-dtKxJfmeMkK
Smosh videos recut so Ianthony happens. Most of the time, dialogue is dirty. ;-)
SpongeBob theme and the Smosh fact: This refers to this old fan made video from 2006 that was so strange that I had to mention it. It starts off with this guy in a SpongeBob costume with the theme song of the show in the background, but that soon transitions into this other scene with these people role playing as Ian and Anthony and it gets a little inappropriate but not anything too extreme. The video is age restricted on YouTube and allegedly Ian and Anthony actually saw this video and favorited it, but I wasn’t able to find solid proof of that. Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/DcxNLKzPkAc?si=YoRZf_2UsEbVNxJ_
Die Smoshing: This was a flash animation that was created by Ian, Anthony, and their high school friends in 2004 about their daily lives at high school. It’s quite juvenile, but it’s pretty interesting to watch and I would recommend it if you’re interested in pre-YouTube Smosh history. A link to a reupload of it: https://youtu.be/3IKPSdn6PKI?si=o46o2yH6r8_VWSDo
“Anthony is naked”: This was what looks to have been an inside joke on the Smosh forums from around 2004-2008. People would often put some joke about Anthony being naked on their profile quite a lot, with Anthony himself even saying that he was naked in his own profile.
Videos of Ian’s cross country team: Yes, videos of Ian and his cross country team running do exist on the internet. I made a post about it a while ago that has a link to them: https://www.tumblr.com/boxxedsmosher05/784814217553494016/ive-found-an-actual-video-of-ians-cross-country
Life’s lessons 6-10: For context, Anthony made a flash animation called “Life’s lessons 1-5” in 2003. However, a comment thread I found from around that time had Anthony ask for suggestions on a sequel to that video called “Life’s lessons 6-10” but that video was never finished/made.
Lost flash games: There was a section on the old Smosh website that had flash games, with anyone being allowed to make and add their own games to that section, but most of them are lost now.
“The Smosh song” - original music video: This was a fan made song about Smosh that was created in 2009. Ian and Anthony saw it and favourited it. It’s actually still up on YouTube, so you watch it here: https://youtu.be/LtBPhFJvS0o?si=6zBdqAP3YYgMRt8P
“Shut up!” Sound effect sampled in song: There’s this song I found on YouTube called “Something cool” by an artist called Saoirse dream. At around 1:12-1:14 into the song, the “Shut up!” Sound effect can be clearly heard. Idk whether or not the artist knew about the origin of the sound effect, but this is still pretty cool. Link to song: https://youtu.be/TZ8SPnrwF-U?si=KuoXBI9GX6d0lNHS
Ian Hecox singing “You’re so beautiful to me” en espanõl: This is a video of Ian from 2003 singing a song called “You’re so beautiful to me” in Spanish for what seemed to be some Spanish project for school. Link to video: https://youtu.be/_4zhUTuNs44?si=u170h47o7ghWgtED
Why are there no Smosh fanfics from before 2011?: This refers to something I’ve personally noticed when looking for old fan content. I’ve noticed that there don’t seem to be any fanfics from before 2011 that can still be found today, and this doesn’t even refer to just fanfics, Smosh fan content from before that year is really hard to come by in general, probably because its been so long and as a result, most of it has been lost to time, which is a shame really.
Most website forum posts are lost: Again, kinda self explanatory. Most of the old forum posts and discussions on the old Smosh website are lost, which is kinda sad tbh.
The first ever Ianthony video/edit is lost: I know, there’s lots of entries here about lost media, I can understand why this may be getting kinda repetitive by now lol. What this entry means though is that I found an old Tumblr post where Someone claims that they made the very first Ianthony edit (as in, video edit that ships them romantically) and that it was from 2008. However, the video cannot be watched anymore. Link to that post: https://www.tumblr.com/boxxedsmosher05/792697460135968768/aimozz-i-present-to-you-the-first-ianthony
Ian and naked gi joe: This was the very first Smosh extras video that was uploaded exclusively to the Smosh website in 2005. It was an extra to the video “ The epic battle: Jesus vs cyborg satan”. Unfortunately, the extra has been lost since around 2007 with pretty much no one searching for it as far as I know. All that’s left of the video is this description that we have of it, but none of the actual video exists online.
Anthony’s long lost flash animation: This was a video that was originally posted to the Smosh website in 2010. It had Anthony talking about this never before seen animation he made in 2002 with him showing it. The video was lost until fairly recently, so here’s a link to it: https://youtu.be/UWQ9HjA0N_I?si=5k6Hv5qhiAQ7zweE
Smosh “tribute” fan edits: In mostly the early years of the channel, people would make these fan edits as a “tribute” to the channel, and there’s a surprising amount of them that can still be watched today. Here’s a playlist with some of them in it, although you can look up “Smosh tribute” on YouTube and also find them that way: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE3aqpAmxFFbycwiWdRunCgvvu-OfsVF6&si=6jHvQiJS4YaHieok
Pre-YouTube videos their high school friends made: Their friends uploaded a few videos to the Smosh website from around 2003-2004. Most would just have them doing random stuff and these videos would be really low quality. You can watch some of them here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCL15CZOEXNR4c99e9eRj4cujpuwDi7Ef&si=SlUWyoW8mKcY9Cb4
Season 2000-2005 Smosh.com and Newgrounds Archives
So yeah, that’s every entry on the last layer of the Classic Smosh/ Ianthony iceberg explained! I wish I could make a full video essay on something like this, but I don’t really know how to make a YouTube video, let alone one like that, so this is the best I can do. Hopefully all of these explanations make sense :)
In 2009, Ian and Anthony made two flash games that were exclusive to the Smosh website: Smosh fighter and Boxman’s escape.
Smosh fighter was a flash game where you could play as either Ian or Anthony and it involved them fighting each other in a similar kind of way to street fighter. You could only play as Ian or Anthony and there were only 3 stages to fight on so the game likely got repetitive after a while, but it’s still an interesting part of Smosh history.
Boxman’s escape had the player play as Boxman as you navigated through a maze trying to collect all of the macaroni without getting hit by the policemen that are chasing him and before time runs out, kinda like Pac-Man almost. The game also had a couple of cutscenes, with one being at the beginning of the game and there’s another one at the end once you’ve beaten the game too, so here they are:
Both of these games aren’t lost as archives of them still exist so it is possible to play them today. You can only properly play them on pc though as the controls for both of them require you to use keyboard buttons so it doesn’t really work on mobile. Here are the archives of both games:
Released as a 2D Fighting game in 2009 for the ‘Games’ category on the Smosh website. The goal of the game is to play as either Ian or Antho
Play Boxman’s Escape online for free! Enjoy classic Flash fun, retro browser gaming, and timeless adventures from your childhood.
I was looking at Anthony’s old deviantart account, (at least before you had to make an account for yourself to see everything on someone’s account) when I found something interesting.
Some of his posts on there were these pictures of nature that he took himself, and the image above is one of them.
The description of it however, is what makes it fascinating. Unfortunately Tumblr isn’t letting me insert the image of the description into this post, so I’ll have to directly quote what it says, and here’s the description:
“The big island, Hawaii”
“Maui can be seen in the distance on the right.”
The upload date of the picture is quite interesting too, because it said that this was posted on the 23rd of July, 2005.
I’ll explain the dots that I’ve connected. Based on everything that I’ve said, it’s very likely that Anthony took this picture while on the trip to Hawaii with Ian and his parents because it was posted during the Summer around some time after they graduated high school, which is when it’s been stated they went on that vacation, and the description itself says that it was taken at Hawaii, so there’s no doubting that the top image is from that Ianthony Hawaii trip.
There’s just something so surreal about the fact that there’s a picture from that Hawaii trip, like we get a visual look at this lore that we’ve been told about, and it’s just so cool to me!
The snippet from an old interview that confirms that this trip happened ⬇️ (I think they also briefly mentioned the trip a little in a modern Lunchtime with Smosh video too, but I can’t remember which one)
And here’s the link to his deviantart account if you’re curious: https://www.deviantart.com/smosh/gallery
Browse smosh's artwork on DeviantArt. 43 works of art across all galleries.
In around 2004, there was a section added to the Smosh website called “quotes”. It had a ton of out of context things that Ian and Anthony, as well as their high school friends have allegedly said in real life. These quotes are kinda sexual though and while there is nothing visually explicit being depicted here, I’ve still marked this post as mature just in case, so you’ve been warned. I really hope that tumblr moderation doesn’t get me for posting this 😅
Reader discretion is advised.
Here are some things that Ian and Anthony have allegedly said according to this section:
Here’s my personal favourite one:
I tried to add in a few more but for some reason, Tumblr literally wouldn’t let me add them in since they would get deleted off of my draft the moment that I added them in, so I’ll have to share the others somewhere else, although I don’t know where else.
And also, I’m sorry for not making any Ianthony lore posts for a while. I’ve been busy with other stuff like fanfic writing and I’m running out of stuff to document, hence why I’ve not been making these posts as much. I hope you understand.
I was just watching the video of Ian and Anthony at vidcon 2023, and there was one point in it where Anthony showed off the reunion shirt that had all of the main dates in smosh history.
There was one thing about this shirt that I’ve just noticed though. The date for the birth of Smosh.com (10th of November 2002) could possibly be incorrect. The reason why I think this is because I found an old Smosh website post on internet archive that’s from the 24th of October 2003 about the website’s “one year anniversary”, which suggests that it could’ve actually been made in October of that year and not on the 10th of November like the shirt says.
I can understand why this error could’ve happened since I too originally thought that it was made on the 10th of November since that is when the earliest snapshot of the website was taken, but this archived website post that Ian made here all those years ago proves that it could’ve actually been made earlier than that, which is so fascinating to me.
So, I didn’t know about this until recently but like Anthony, Ian also had a deviantart account that he made in 2005. It is called “ExplodingPuppies” and we know that this is him because of a 2007 post that explicitly states that the account belongs to him. He used the account to make short little comics.
And like the post from him above says, a comic he made on his account was made into an actual Smosh sketch, with that sketch in question being
Spider man, Spider man.
Here’s the comic he made that the sketch is based on ⬇️
What’s also quite interesting is that on a comic he posted on the 14th of June 2005, he said in the description that it was inspired by the fact that he was “leaving to Hawaii tomorrow” which further adds to the lore of him and Anthony going to Hawaii after they graduated from high school. For some reason, Tumblr isn’t letting me show an image of that comic or even the full part of the description, so this image below is the only thing I can put here to show that.
Here’s a link to his account https://www.deviantart.com/explodingpuppies I don’t have an account on Deviantart so I cannot see the comments section on any posts, so I might be missing out on some things.
ExplodingPuppies is an artist on DeviantArt. · Artworks: 16 · Followers: 954 · Likes: 15
I will give credit to @polygonalpadilla for telling me about this. I had no idea that Ian had an account on there as well until they told me about it, so I thank them for giving me this information :D
One more thing, here’s a link to the post I made a little while ago that talks a bit about Anthony’s Deviantart account if you’re curious: https://www.tumblr.com/boxxedsmosher05/815420471508123648/update-i-managed-to-get-the-image-of-the
💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 22 · Update: I managed to get the image of the description to work in a reblog for some reason, so here it is!
