Was 2013 The Best Year Of YouTube?

Ian screaming in the intro, “Bring back the Frickin’ dislike button!” Was sooo funny! And i agree!!

30:53 Ian realizing they really were actually VERY popular back in 2013, so much so that their videos would get millions of views within days, and almost not being able to comprehend that is so funny

UGH I miss Jenna so much 😭 even the thumbnail was enough to hit me in the heart

Jenna: listing weird, crazy names for animals Anthony and Ian: nodding in agreement 😂

ian saying he could take a punch to the head has the same energy as chanse saying he could jump over a moving car

Love that they’ve been having guests but it’s nice to have an episode that’s just them after not having one in a while

seeing ian get so excited about jenna marbles made me feel like a kid again

Now that Anthonys back, Ian finally has someone who doesnt bat a fucking eye at his dark tangents

2013 meta: creativity, sketches, being original by being yourself The meta a decade later: apology videos

Kortney editing this video was like "LIARSSS THEY ARE LITERALLY LIARSSS"

The seemingly unintentional synchronized head nodding through Jenna Marbles' alternate animal names killed me. 45:04

2013 was definitely the last time that YouTube was under one community umbrella and then 2014 was the transitional year where everyone started to branch off into niches. Between 2014 and 2016 I mainly stuck to the Let’s Play community with Game Grumps, Markiplier, Jackscepticeye, and a lot of the more niche gaming channels.

We need an episode each for Felix and Ryan. And Jenna too if she's okay with being in videos again. Also love the ChadChad discourse.

I feel like Ian and Anthony don’t give themselves enough credit pioneering YouTube! Like the fact that they had Lunchtime with Smosh and Mail Time with Smosh which is literally modern YouTube today just mukbangs and creating super editing content of just hanging out with your friends. It’s so entertaining! And they pioneered it! I feel like if they did just vlog style stuff of them trying out food and going on target buying sprees it would completely FILL MY FANGIRL HEART. Like seeing Ian and Anthony just hanging out as best friends like they did back in the day would be crazy! And a lot of the new stuff today is just that. Plus Podcasts, drama channels, and etc. Keep the sketch comedy obviously but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BRING BACK LUNCHTIME WITH SMOSH

Ian cringing at Tobuscus is hilarious lmao. What a rabbit hole you can go down on with that guy :_Ian:

49:20 Erin panicking about people dressed as pedobear meeting children in 2013 and Ian cracking up at that?!?!?! THAT'S the duality of Smosh right there

Ian's assumption on kid president is exactly what I thought lol

oh god the nostalgia of this episode will kill me. 2013, age 12, the height of my youtube obsession...

Ian having an existential crisis about how popular smosh was back then.

I really hope that Jenna is living her absolute best life, wherever she is.