Smosh Cast Responds to Assumptions About Them (ft. Shayne Topp, Keith Leak Jr, Angela Giarratana)

I try not to look at the comments often because you see that comment and it will ruin your day. Up until that point all my characters were crazy to create a character that was completely opposite and that worked was really fun, we just want Ian and Anthony, well sorry I'm here, that's a good drawing of yours, very accurate, what asks Melo Psycho, do you get tired of long jokes or snippets about yourself? I don't mind. Like, I'd rather this be a joke or a meme than something else people latch onto, yeah sure, I feel like I've fabricated it too many times like Munch Munch is something people don't do.

I don't know anymore, really, yeah, that's that one, that one died, that one went extinct, damn I'm still on Munch, but it's Monday, banana stuff, like even you were my favorite pizza place, it was something I kept doing . until people like it, I would say I'm not tired of it, but it's funny because I think people think that what I mention the most is that I made a painful joke forever ago or not, I wrote, I wrote, we wrote it. in video games in real life, uh, and it was a character from Resident Evil, uh, this giant vampire, okay, and I was playing a character that I thought, oh no, I hope she doesn't come in here and I like that would suck and I. we wrote this, we wrote this scene and then people started saying, yeah, Shane really wants to do it, and then it just kept building and then Garrett made a joke at my funeral where he sang a whole song about it and I was I laughed and I thought that this It's funny, but it kept coming up and I think people think I mention it all the time when really it was just a joke and then when I posted my Instagram post for this, there was a lot of stuff like, well, you make so many jokes. about how to get, you must, you must, and I think I haven't actually said that, a lot of like I said reference, it was a reference to a video game, this was also scripted, right, it was on a scripted set and I was surprised that rarely have the same impulse as our laughter where is my camera where is my where do I speak?

I need a camera to talk to hey we're actors we're actors what you see especially in something written even if we have our names attached it's a joke it's probably us a joke I don't care though I think it's funny he cares to understand, he doesn't want to have boom girl, Bucko says, I guess Keith has wanted to leave smos for a while boom girl bucko came in BO girl was like okay, jokes boom boom girl damn it's okay, it's okay, so there's been There are times for sure, even in recent times when things change and I have arrived, there are times when I have been complacent, there are times when I didn't want to be there, let me be honest, but there are other times when I did.

I want to be there and recently I'm happy to be here, you know? What I mean, it's been like a big roller coaster for me, from a lot of things like behind the scenes, to sometimes feeling ignored, you know, and not feeling seen, and I've also questioned myself there and it's like where can I? I belong you know what I mean like for the longest time being like the only one like U like a black guy in the

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black person in the

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um person of color it was really hard to find my footing here you know certain points that I don't I don't know who was who was my friend, you know what I mean, just like the things that I have to go through personally, um, so finding some sense of peace like the recent thing again feels good, you know, I don't know if you guys realize account, but I look, I don't know, they feel like they can, um, but yeah, I'm, I'm happy right now.

Piper Manerz says Angela was the girl at sleepovers who always hugged you. and whose hands were always a little bit sticky Wella, that's just me, yeah, um, Angela, you were kind of okay, so Keith doesn't want to be here and I'm sticky, you were sticky. He was saying you were when you were a little. kid, the first part is crazy, I wanted to hug him and touch him. I feel like I feel like they're saying something, there's a lot to unpack here, um, everyone always comments on how excited and little brother energy I get when I'm around everyone and I think it's just because I like my brother and I were really far apart in our house and our parents were constantly working, so I was alone a lot, so I feel like when I'm on smos, specifically on camera, there's like a younger kid who's hanging out with his brothers comes out and I'm like, "Oh my gosh, "I have all these brothers and all these sisters and I think it's because of the games and the things that we're doing, it's not really super." intellectual things, so I get very excited.

I was that kid at the sleepover who was like, "Oh my gosh, we're having so much fun right now, and you were clingy too, um, yeah, I, I, I don't think I was." sticky uh maybe if I had it I always had warm hands from Cheeto that's sticky that count is sticky Kylie Dunn says I guess Shane knows he's considered the backbone of smos and feels a lot of pressure to be funny because of that oh wow oh Jesus um can I say something before you go? Okay, Shane's definitely been the post bonus smj, like straight up since you came in and like you take more of a leadership role than you think you do and you do it.

It's true, you do it with class, you do it with kindness, you don't have to try to be funny, you just know what I mean, so yeah, you're just that and you're the backbone, I think, so I really think today. I'll give everyone flowers of the Day, yeah, damn, Keith, uh, I don't know, I don't know how to respond to that personally, um, because I feel like my strength is that I'm really good at playing with other people, so. I never felt like "oh, people want to see me." I'm good at seeing other people's strengths and building that dynamic and that's exactly what it is.

I mean, I think it's like you listen to the spine. from smos and you listen like only you, but in reality it is that you just invite and like from the first video in which I was with you as if it were a question of connection and that is why I think that it is not you alone the backbone and we behind you. I think it might be easy for you to think that exactly, but I think it's just an energy that you bring that invites everyone in, yeah, yeah, um, it's hard, you can't say that's the thing we can say it by. , yeah, yeah, I don't know, I guess from my perspective I see a lot of strength in us all working together and that's obviously what yes, what the whole brand is.

I think also from a work perspective and working full time I see the work that goes behind the scenes and I can't help but say no, the backbone is actually Kiana, it's kind of like that. I think when I think about that, when we're on camera, like you know, I feel like doing it. It changes all the time, yeah, um, and I feel like it's all of us together and our dynamic is the backbone, but I constantly think about who it is that organizes all this, generating that everyone is a bone, we are all a bone, that's it. funny. for me we don't like finished we are all we are a bone you are just the boner come on buddy erections Logan Teem asks do you think some people hate you just because you're not Anthony and Ian?

Well, some people hated us because we, Anthony and you, but it wasn't right, so we thought they. I feel like behind the scenes everyone thought the launch was going to be a bit difficult for us, it wasn't that bad of course, they love Ian and Anthony all the time. but we get a lot of love from the fans, but then of course you get those some comments where it's like, man, we only want Ian and Anthony, well, sorry, I'm here, you know, but beyond that, I do not do it. I don't believe it. I tried not to look at the comments often because you see that comment and it will ruin your day.

Yeah, I would say it was always a smaller group of people, like it was like one in 10. And especially, of course that channel wasn't really like there weren't a lot of views there when we started, so we built that audience as a new thing. and I really think that our audience today is super tolerant and super open, yeah, uh. I don't see, I rarely see hate comments nowadays, how did you feel walking in? Because I think it's a little blurry for us too, since it's been so long, like the last year and a half, what did you look like?

In the comments, did you feel like you weren't accepted by the community or something? Yeah, I came in when Anthony was gone, so I didn't really understand the power they had together until he came back and we went to that VidCon and I was like, oh, I suddenly felt like for a brief second we felt like us and then

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, but then so quickly it was like, oh no, we're all in this and it feels like, I don't think I'll ever feel like that. less than um everyone does a good job making you feel very supported.

I guess they get tired of how fans fit each of

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into a comedy genre, yes they each have their own unique approach but I bet it could be stressful. to try to fulfill something that the audience has held onto you. I understand this because we do that with stories and we do it with sitcoms like in sitcoms there's like archetypes there's like the loser like the girl like there's it's just a thing that I think is done with the media, but then it breaks. when it's a parasocial thing where it's like, oh, these are real people versus these are written, these are written character types versus it's a way for the audience to be like I know.

You, you're that kind of person, yeah, and that's a way for them to connect with you and I understand the harmful parts of it, but I understand that it's like a part of watching people on TV, I think, or on YouTube, it's like that. I think that's always going to be something like you're always going to have a type that people put you in because they don't know you, yeah, yeah. I don't think it's so much the fans doing it that worries me, I think sometimes. behind the scenes, uh, I as an individual will start to fall into certain similar things and think, well, this works, I do this, it works and you have to say oh, I have to change it, I need to change it for myself and also just for when we write sketches or even just in the videos that we're making, it's a matter of not like in SM palomar people and going well, Angela does this, she does this. kind of energy, so we'll put it there, it's good, have we given it the opportunity to do something different?

I remember when I first came in and they would like to have an open pitch for the characters and stuff that I was pitching a lot. of musical things or something with a musical element or a character that played an instrument for me to play and then I remember saying, Oh, I wouldn't want to pinch it like a musical theater person, but at the same time it's like what you like exactly so it's like a line that I walk where it's like it's part of me and that's like yeah, but then at some point you say I just want to make sure that as a writer For you it's like you want to propose all kinds of roles for them to you interpret, yeah, I think what was really fun for me when I created the character of The Chosen because up until that point all my characters were completely crazy. like screaming crazy and that's why creating a character that was the complete opposite and that worked was a lot of fun.

I never looked at it that way. He is very grounded, literally, with super silent sunglasses. that's so much fun, that's amazing, that's a lot easier to do, uh, but you know, Courtney, the fucking Miller, I was doing it for years and I thought I had a headache after doing it, it's very interesting because I even realized Realize that with BFF Legacy it was like a Legacy betrayal. In the first half I was doing what I thought was my bread and butter, which was crazy, chaotic characters, and then towards the end I was like, oh, I want to play as a few different types of weird, offbeat characters. like another volume level of a character and I thought I can do that as it is and those often hit, yeah, because you're like you're going against your norm, taking your time, yeah, like wow, yeah, hell, that It was good, so I wouldn't do it.

Say it's kind of annoying. I would say I understand it. Don Park assumes Shane comes home and screams for a few minutes after a long day of filming before cooking or something that couldn't be more opposite, uh, no, sorry. like I feel even at work between things, I'm very downplayed like I'm not a loud person, um normally, but definitely at home, super quiet, like when I go home, I cook, that part is right, yeah, but in that. uh, but I, no, I love not talking, wait, we should talk about why we think we're loud, because I don't, you're not necessarily a loud person, but in front of the camera, the camera, yeah, the camera, that It's all you see, it's because I believe I believe.

You and I are similar in that we commit very hard to CU. I've always believed that one of our old bosses, Joe Beretta, always said this thing that everything is fun if you commit 100%. And I also. I'm a believer in that, I don't think a lot of the things I do are fun, but I just think, but if I try as hard as I can, it will be something that will come out loud and Often, if I'm very loud a lot it's because I don't I do it. I don't have any ideas, so I talk loudly and it's also a bit of improvisation, like choosing a strong emotion.

Yes. I was seeing somethingyou think I love it, I love the memes that we have, you're like a crazy monster, I would say like the the monster, the chaotic devil, like the baral guinea pig,

assumptions

are the main ones I understand, yeah, um, like If it wasn't, I haven't screamed once in this video, you're talking about this one here, yeah, yeah, I mean, this is, I sat at a table I, this is a crazy picture, there's no screaming on the channel by Anthony Pia, uh, you want to do that here, just there, yeah, put it there, yeah, put it there, sure, unless they draw I'm like what interacts with the art department or Draw. 25 Shane, so this is a reference to my riddles, people's riddles based on their favorite things.

I never get the art department right, that's F, like guessing people's favorite movies, TV shows, everyone and I never get the art department right. to be fair you guys know our studio art department is like they are on their own they are great they are great they are great and they say they are the best they are very mysterious everyone is great except Al Al I hope you see this Alex Alex Alex has a different vibe than the rest. If I tried, Alex would get hit by a bus and I wouldn't care. I hope you see that Alex.

I love Alex. I would say from everyone in smos all. The conversation we have in front of the camera does not rival the conversation that Alex throws at us every day. I'll be very tired and in one of those moves where you say you work hard, you're not in the best mood. I like to walk and it's like Hi Angela, your nose looks like and I'm like, yeah, I'm going to go get a glass of water, thanks Alex. Alex has definitely hit me with cancer. Jokes I accept, so that's it. I'm saying if he got hit by a bus I wouldn't care, I love you Alex, that's crazy, okay, that's good, yeah, I'll put this here because it's accurate.

I'm going to go over all of your things. that you posted on Instagram um you have a lot more deranged

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there so we're going to do this as a kind of rapid fire round and I want a 30 second response. Great, you're the prettiest girl at the party, I'm not. You weren't loved when I was a kid, oh my God, damn, I was loved when I was a kid, I, look, I drowned when I was a little kid and they brought me back to life, so they had to have loved me a little bit, they had to be like that.

Well, okay, we'll bring him back, you wipe from front to back, that's crazy, because he does it, we're like Keith, what's your cancer? Journey Shane, you wipe from back to back, so how do you wipe, buddy, no comment, laugh and kick your feet? you get up when you're excited no, no, uh, I, uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no , no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no , no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no , no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I, yeah, I slap my knee on the butt, okay?

I have so many that said you are gay, not bottom, no, I understand, I understand a lot, people say my last name is superior, they say B, but honestly, a lot of our fans think I'm bisexual and they are determined. They want me to be bisexual so much. It started when I was buttoning my jeans, they think and I say no, it's because I'm short and I have to button my jeans otherwise they wrinkle, but no, I'm not bisexual. Sorry, we have bisexuals next. Do you want to have any assumptions about bisexuals? Do you want us to ask them to handcuff themselves?

Does everyone cuff their pants? Yeah, I mean, handcuffs go in and out, sorry, no. Not wearing boot cut jeans and rocking a Dve Buster t-shirt, you know? Should I use it? You look like the kind of person who swallows the hole in a boiled egg like the wood of a snake, no I don't do that, yeah I eat. hard boiled eggs every morning, I actually have two, I have two or three every morning, but I cut them in half, put some hot sauce on them and then I do Trader Joe's bagel seasoning on top of that delicious, you're discreet. depressed giving off the Robin Williams experience and I worry about you, no, that's super intense, uh, like we said before, there are times when I definitely feel sad and depressed and I can put it on and act, yeah, but no, Robin Williams it's completely different, that's something else, yeah, I think they're just saying you're as funny as him, no, I'm sorry, I refuse to accept that you're actually two kids in a trench coat trying to get into an R. -Movie rated that well, that's true.

Do you see how big my clothes are? No, I'm not, no, you missed the old smos parentheses, you're Ian, no, uh, I'm looking into the future future, I have to follow what you think is. better in terms of content, like early 2015 to 2018 or now. I loved doing sketches in the past, which was my thing, we had to play several different characters from now on, it's more of a personality-based thing. I guess I like them a lot. more there you go maybe I do too oh Dam but I'm not Ian you secretly love bubble baths oo do you like bubble baths?

I haven't had a bubble bath since '85. I love showers, so no, yeah, you're high. Almost every smos video you've been on recently cares about answering that. There is no next question. It's not right, so let me say this. There was a video in which he was definitely high. Yes, it was great. What was it? Shane. I forgot Stoner's parking lot. a lot of St understandable yeah so I got to do it and when I was going through my cancer the trip was definitely edible because I was in pain absolutely right now it's arguable that your phone is never above 40% and you're always stressed about it even though it's your fault whoa what's going on where you know it's true yeah that's crazy can we check your phone where do we have it?

I feel like your phone is at 62 right now, it's at 61, oh that's nice, that's pretty close, yeah I've done that. It's gotten better for a moment I think I'm not even on my phone much I think I just don't charge it you love tomato soup, it's literally true, yes, you're actually a bug pretending to be Angela, not the other way around. you can think of my character D and D and I think that makes a lot of sense because yeah, I think he's um. I'll do a 30-second response and say that I really identify with the character. leave it there I relate to this kid who is trying to gain his trust you are the hardest on yourself and it's hard for you to realize how talented you already are sweet I would say I think I'm the hardest on myself because I want to beat the haters, you know what I mean, don't you feel like you want to think about the bad things that are said about you before they do it?

Oh, absolutely because you lose the power of it. Alex is harder on all of us, but yes, some parts of your apartment are pretty clean, but others are a painful mess. It sucks, yes, that sucks. I think this is true for everyone. You don't like mayonnaise. um. I don't hate her or dislike her. In fact, you liked the cat food that passed by just now. That's a lie, do you feel that pressure? Like everything you do is immediately talked about by the fans because I feel like you all have such a strong relationship. I think that's why you have to watch what you put online, you have to be very good, like we have lives outside of this and I'm sure there are certain times to protect the brand, protect ourselves, protect our family , we would never put that stuff online, you know?

What I mean is that you have to keep certain things to yourself. I feel sorry for the people who put everything online. They say: Why does everyone feel like they're in my business? Why is everyone in my business? Because you left them in your business. You know, you like to keep things to yourself, but that doesn't bother me because I just asked them if they had assumptions. Do you know what you think is happening? What do you think is happening right now? Yeah, you know what I mean because I don't know the things that we put in the videos, the things that we say and do in the videos, it's like we're doing it intentionally because that's what we're sharing with you and that's what it's about. what we want to have fun talking about.

If we don't put it on videos and you're trying to look it up, that's when I get angry about the information we were talking about before, like when they try to figure out our sexuality in ways that I Well, if we haven't talked about it, then it's private, so yeah we talk about it, so we're inviting that conversation, but yeah, I feel like we share a lot. I know at some point, yeah, this is that. we don't share, I understand, I understand the hype because you're like, oh, it's like a hidden Mickey, but in some cases, literally, what it is, but at some point it's like you have to do it.

Yes, I like to be private, I don't like to tell people. my business yeah even when my friends have my location on their phones I think I don't want you to have my location yeah that's weird for me but I also love our fans and I want to say I love when they have enthusiasm for a project absolutely, that's it, I love it, we love the community, we love the community, look, do you have your tiar? Yes, we have it, okay, you can stop. Great, it was easy. This was sponsored by Elks. It was too easy.

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