Ian Hecox

Background

Ian Andrew Hecox was born in Fair Oaks, California, in the U.S., on November 30, 1987. There is not much information about Hecox’s childhood and family. Hecox’s mother, Sharon Hecox, often appeared in his videos. His father, whose name is unknown, also occasionally appeared on Hecox’s videos. The YouTuber has a sister named Melissa and a brother named Adrian. In the sixth grade, Hecox met Anthony Padilla, and they quickly became close friends. Hecox and Padilla attended Del Campo High School in California, and after graduating, the friends enrolled at American River College in Sacramento.

Hecox’s friend, Padilla, was eager to create online content. In 2002, Padilla created a website called smosh.com. Soon enough, Hecox started joining Padilla on his content creation venture. In 2005, only five months after YouTube was launched, the duo created a YouTube channel titled ‘Smosh.’ Hecox and Padilla started by uploading funny videos of themself. Their channel quickly grew, earning several awards for being one of the YouTube channels with more subscriptions. Even though the content of ‘Smosh’ changed throughout the years, the channel always remained true to making its fans laugh and have a good time while watching the videos.

In June 2017, Padilla decided to leave ‘Smosh’ to pursue a personal project, and Hecox took over ‘Smosh.’ As of 2022, ‘Smosh’ has over 25 million subscribers and over 200,000 views per video. Hecox continues creating great content along with a group of YouTubers.