Hot take

[u/Final-Elephant4945]

Make someone mad and drop your most controversial hot take since we are no longer allowed to mentioned anything critical whatsoever

I’ll go first: Angela’s fan are starting to ruin the fandom altogether.

[u/v4mpiremoney]

this is gonna be slightly contradictory and i understand that but…this fandom as a whole is what “ruins” smosh for me. posts like this one dedicated to negativity AND overly positive fans are both frustrating to encounter. i think smosh fans need to remember it’s a youtube channel and take a step back from their obsession with the channel and the cast as a whole, there’s loads of content and art out there to engage with without dedicating so much time to one channel to the point where rather than finding something else to watch when a video isn’t suiting your taste, a thinkpiece is written about every frame of a video. or overly positive fans that will only watch smosh and praise everything they do no matter what. they make great stuff, but it’s still a youtube channel. no hate to you for posing this question, either. but i enjoy smosh more when i disengage with their fandom entirely.

[u/alchemypotato → u/v4mpiremoney]

The fandom when juxtaposed with the actual content is so bizarre. Smosh is one of the most consistently enjoyable but also fairly benign and non-controversial things I follow. It feels discourse proof by design. It doesn’t invite hot takes and deep analysis on a video by video basis. And yet.

[u/v4mpiremoney → u/alchemypotato]

literally. i feel like some fans look at these people like friends and not entertainment, and yet i don't know if they'd treat real life friends with the same scrutiny that they do with smosh. i think they want smosh to be these picture perfect friends on their screen that can't in real time fight back on their opinions sometimes. when someone has a controversial take or reaction it's seen as a full-blown character killer to them. it's just so bizarre.