Anthony Padilla slams SMOSH parent company for sudden shutdown Former SMOSH member and popular YouTuber Anthony Padilla has broken his silence on the sudden shutdown of SMOSH\u2019s parent company, Defy Media. According to Padilla, Defy Media shut down without any notice, leaving a reported number of nearly 400 employees without job security. Read More: KEEMSTAR calls out YouTube for terminating channel of player who killed feminist character in Red Dead Redemption 2 – Padilla took issue with the company\u2019s sudden collapse, expressing sympathy for his friends that worked there. \u201cThey screwed over my friends today, and I feel like I can\u2019t keep faking like I\u2019m totally cool with Defy Media as I\u2019ve done for so long,\u201d he admitted. He even claimed that he had \u2018beat around the bush\u2019 in his original \u2018Why I left SMOSH\u2019 video in order to protect his friends from potential consequences. According to a statement from the company, released on Tuesday, November 6, the shutdown was due to unspecified \u2018market conditions\u2019 \u2013 which Padilla didn\u2019t understand. Padilla also explained that he and comedy partner Ian Hecox had only received a \u2018fraction\u2019 of profit from SMOSH after selling the business to Defy Media, and felt that they had ultimately been taken advantage of. \u201cI have no idea where all that money went that the company was making,\u201d Padilla claimed. He likewise alleged that the company had attempted to take his personal Twitter account, prohibited him from joining the Screen Actors Guild despite acting in multiple movies with the org, and even took ownership of his public Facebook page. Hecox also came out with a statement on the issue, assuring fans that SMOSH is not canceled. Instead, Hecox is looking for a new home for the internet show, which he hopes to share with viewers \u2018soon.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anthony Padilla slams SMOSH parent company for sudden shutdown Former SMOSH member and popular YouTuber Anthony Padilla has broken his silence on the sudden shutdown of SMOSH\u2019s parent company, Defy Media. According to Padilla, Defy Media shut down without any notice, leaving a reported number of nearly 400 employees without job security. Read More: KEEMSTAR […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}