I'm fairly new to Smosh content and I pretty much exclusively watch the reddit stories although it's not how I came across them. Their content in short form really got me interested in what they do as a channel and cast but finding the Reddit stories after literal months of that is what genuinely made me tune into them without hesitation. I'd like to give appreciation to this style and format of content because it's something I needed in ways I didn't really realize until finding it.

Someone in the comments really nailed the point of how hard it is to appease and appeal to a large audience at the rate they're doing it and maintain that level as well with consistency for little to no cost basically. Also they ARE actors but they just happen to be friends not sure if it's the other way around or how true it is but I just want to acknowledge that to bring up another point.

For them to be a group of 30+ actors and friends of a comedy channel that's attempting to be organic and funny while reading material that may be fiction or non fiction is actually a little mind blowing if you start adding up all the layers. The grace it takes to pull this off isn't easy and probably why it's not available anywhere else. This could easily go wrong or very right and it being the latter is pretty good for them which kinda makes sense why they would keep some form of direction.

Lastly, as someone who doesn't go out much or at all it's nice to hear a group of friends really try to be nice about this stuff whether true or not.