Smosh as well had had more views than nigahiga since the year prior after the channel surpassed the Smosh channel in views in late 2008 to early 2009. It has been the most viewed channel on the platform twice as well, now sitting as the eighty-sixth most viewed channel of all time with over 8 billion views. Smosh even further led the gap to be the most subscribed YouTube channel owned by Defy Media which since joining in 2011 still is. Smosh, then fourth, was surpassed by JustinBieberVEVO on June 11, 2016, just four days below two months after the comedy channel surpassed 22 million subscribers, making it the first time a VEVO or music channel surpassed them in subscribers despite having over 9 million more subscribers than Bieber less than a year prior.

Despite this, however, Machinima surpassed Smosh in subscribers again in early September 2011 as their gaming commentary videos were one of YouTube's first and most popular set of videos, when both channels were around 3.2 million subscribers but was dethroned by Smosh once again for good after both channels had surpassed each other for the third most subscribed spot multiple times throughout this time period, at around 3.8 million subscribers in early December 2011, making Smosh the third channel to hit 4 million subscribers on YouTube on December 28, 2011.

It has been the most viewed channel on the platform twice as well, now sitting as the eighty-sixth most viewed channel of all time with over 8 billion views. Forgot Password? Awesome live sub count tool updated every second. New Platform: Trovo Stats! Since late 2012, the comedy channel has received anywhere from 400 thousand to 900 thousand subscribers, but this was the only month, Smosh exceeded a million new subscribers, being one of the first channels to achieve a feat that many channels still haven't done. total video views.

Smosh, with over 7 million subscribers, doubled Shane Dawson's subscriber count shortly afterward, being the first YouTube channel to do so. Though a couple of months prior, PewDiePie surpassed Smosh in the most amount of days a channel has been the most subscribed, breaking Smosh's over two-year reign record in total, a record Smosh held since June 3, 2013, surpassing nigahiga's 686-day record. On June 21, 2014, Smosh was surpassed by Spanish speaking YouTuber, HolaSoyGerman as the last time they had gained more subscribers than German was the first month of the year (gaining over 30,000 more than the HolaSoyGerman channel), no longer being the closest YouTubers to the most subscribed and the most subscribed sketch comedy channel, now being number 2 which they still are although many YouTubers who currently have more than them do it on occasion but due to it not being their main channel genre are not considered sketch comedians.

Smosh had lost over 30,000 subscribers from August to September 2017, the most subscribers they lost in a single month, which was why both channels surpassed them a few weeks earlier than previously thought.