YouTubers Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox are ready to run Smosh together again after buying the famous YouTube channel back from Mythical Entertainment, which owned the brand since 2019.

On Tuesday, Anthony and Ian of the once most-subscribed YouTube channel Smosh announced that they got their brand back from Mythical Entertainment, the production company of the YouTuber duo Rhett & Link.

Padilla, who left Smosh in 2017 over creative disagreements with the studio that owned the channel at the time, will be rejoining Smosh to create new content on the main channel and secondary channels Smosh Pit and Smosh Gaming.

WE BOUGHT SMOSH pic.twitter.com/hGudqKVyPP

— Smosh (@smosh) June 20, 2023

Smosh posted a four-minute announcement video with the famous duo promising new sketch comedy to come in the near future.

After months of negotiating and deliberating whether it was a good idea or not, today Anthony and I can say officially that we own Smosh.

The news of the "classic Smosh" comeback quickly went viral on Twitter, where the announcement tweet racked up over 15,000 retweets and 100,000 likes within two hours of being posted. Those who were there through the peak years of the channel rushed in to congratulate the duo in droves.

Smosh fans after seeing Ian & Anthony reunited
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— Lies | seeing twice & (g)i-dle (@beamingminie) June 20, 2023

“Smosh is coming back” pic.twitter.com/8wcJPtOhXn

— Blue 🏖️ (@bluefolf) June 20, 2023

Ghetto Smosh has some competition

— Dolan Dark (@DolanDark) June 20, 2023

Over the past two decades, Smosh reached the rank of the most-subscribed YouTube channel three times, which happened last time in 2013 when Smosh remained at the top for over 200 days.

Since Padilla's departure, the channel was run by Hecox, while Padilla focused on his solo YouTube career as an interviewer.