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A bunch of cuties for URL's new co-host announcement campaign, directed by Smosh's social media manager Erica!

Now for my opinion no one absolutely asked for (feel free to skip or read if you like):

Courtney's show getting a co-host is not what I expected in today's announcement, AT ALL. I was expecting something more drastic, like a slow launch leading up to SmoshAlike's major rebrand (possibly as the new Smosh Podcast channel; the current SmoshCast one could change its focus on only Smosh Mouth), but then, the algorithm may make it worse, so it's just wishful thinking.

The channel has been steadily struggling with views since the Anthony Padilla channel first rebranded. And personally, as promising as the show's premise seems - I've tuned in to a few episodes already - it hadn't been living up to its full potential. Chanse being added as Court's co-host may change that.

Smosh thrives best when real friend duos run the ship. We don't see a lot of Chanse and Court's dynamic on screen, although they're close friends in real life, so it'll be interesting to see it flesh out.

I can't believe it's already time for the third annual Anthony's Day! Two years ago I came up with Anthony’s Day to celebrate the fandom and Anthony. It is something I would very much like to do again as a fandom whole. Here is the run-down for it, if you’ve never heard of it!

What is it?

It is meant as a creative way for our fan community to celebrate Anthony’s birthday. It is not limited to just fan fic authors or fan art creators, but also editors, gif-makers, web-weaves, moodboards, etc! Anything that celebrates Anthony!

The fun thing is to build up the aspect of community (and I feel maybe we need this more than ever) the joy is that we can collaborate by the accepting and sending of prompts for these fics/art/creations from each other. If an author, artist, creator, wants to take prompts between now (September 1st) and Anthony’s birthday (September 16th) just make a post letting people know you are accepting prompts (for fic/art/creations relating to Anthony’s Day!).

What can be posted?

I don’t want to restrict anything as far as what can be paired, prompted, written, drawn, made, etc. Any pairing that involves Anthony or even platonic ideas with Anthony involved are fine! You can of course have the very popular Ianthony but, hey, if someone asks you to write Tommy/Anthony and you want to try that out, that’s good too!

Prompts

As mentioned the prompting can begin any time between now and September 16th. The sooner you get the prompts the sooner you can get your work done if you need extra time!

Posting

The only thing is please try and not post what you create until Anthony’s actual birthday date so it goes along with the celebration of him on his special day! If you won’t be around on his birthday and need to post a day earlier/day later feel free!

Tag

So people can easily find all the works that will (hopefully) be created on that day we’re suggesting the tag of ’anthony’s day 2025’ or ‘anthony’s day’ so your wonderful work can easily be found! I personally try and reblog anything under those tags when it comes to the day of!

Other

This is all in good fun and meant to be an interesting and collaborative way to celebrate one of our favorite Smosh boys so please don’t link or spread anything to actual IRL Anthony unless you have the creator’s permission or you are the creator and want to do so. But this is meant for the fans mainly!

Now, I know since our boy has scaled back his appearances that the fan base for him has shrunk around here BUT I just want to say this fandom event needs both people willing to create and people who are willing to prompt so if you have some ideas you want to share I am sure people would appreciate that!

Any questions, concerns, ideas, feel free to hit me up! And the absolutely STUNNING image was made by the ever lovely and wonderful and handsome and cool: @xxmoonch1ldxx so go and throw him some much deserved compliments as he did this as a favor for me and absolutely blew it out of the water as he does every year!

Additionally, if you’d like to peruse the Anthony’s Day tag from last year, at least, what I have on my blog, you can find it here!

Reblogs are appreciated to spread the word for this!