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WHO WILL SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE? (Smosh Summer Games Trailer)

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Smosh drops its post-apocalyptic gauntlet, and this time survival comes with a team jersey.

Five years after the original Smosh Summer Games first pitted YouTube personalities against each other in backyard-style competitions, the flagship series is back — and it’s starting over from scratch. The trailer “WHO WILL SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE?” dropped on July 15, 2019, officially announcing Smosh Summer Games: Apocalypse, the fifth installment of the franchise and the first produced entirely under Mythical Entertainment following Defy Media’s abrupt shutdown in late 2018. The teaser wastes no time setting the stakes: two rival squads, a wasteland aesthetic, and a slate of physical and mental challenges built to separate survivors from casualties.

• The trailer marks the fifth Smosh Summer Games tournament and the franchise’s first edition made under Mythical Entertainment after Defy Media’s collapse in late 2018.
• Cast members split into two teams — Mushroom Clout and ToxiciTEA — featuring Ian Hecox, Courtney Miller, Shayne Topp, Damien Haas, Olivia Sui, Keith Leak Jr., Noah Grossman, Mari Takahashi, Joshua “Jovenshire” Ovenshire, David “Lasercorn” Moss, and Wesley Johnson.
• Events begin rolling out across the Smosh family of channels on July 19, 2019, including revamped segments like the “Punishment Zombie Shootout” and “Nuclear Family Feud.”

A Franchise Reborn Under New Ownership

Smosh Summer Games has always functioned as the closest thing the channel has to a season premiere — a multi-episode event built around bracket-style competition and cast chemistry. What makes this fifth run different is the corporate backdrop. Defy Media, which had owned and distributed Smosh content, shut down suddenly in late 2018, leaving the future of the franchise uncertain. Mythical Entertainment, the company behind Good Mythical Morning, subsequently acquired Smosh, and Apocalypse is the first Summer Games tournament produced entirely under that new ownership.

That transition matters for longtime fans tracking the roster. Smosh co-founder Anthony Padilla and former regular cast member Matthew Sohinki are not part of this installment, leaving Ian Hecox as the lone original co-founder in the trailer alongside the current Smosh and Smosh Games ensemble.

Choosing Sides: Mushroom Clout vs. ToxiciTEA

The trailer’s central hook is the team split. Cast members are divided into Mushroom Clout and ToxiciTEA, two squads built to battle through the post-apocalyptic gauntlet across the coming weeks of episodes. The teaser leans into the bit hard enough to sell official merchandise for both sides, pushing fans to pick a team before the tournament even starts.

Mushroom Clout or ToxiciTEA — Smosh isn’t leaving room for neutral parties this summer.

It’s a familiar format for anyone who’s followed challenge-based creator content before — the kind of bracketed, team-versus-team structure that’s kept series like World’s Largest Challenge! and World’s Most Dangerous Escape Room! in heavy rotation on YouTube’s competition circuit. Smosh is simply applying that same formula to a wasteland theme, with cast rivalries doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

Trailer Content Analysis

Beyond the roster reveal, the teaser previews the actual content of the tournament: post-apocalyptic physical challenges, camp-style competitions, water stunts, and reworked versions of classic Smosh segments. Two specific bits get called out by name — the “Punishment Zombie Shootout” and “Nuclear Family Feud” — both signaling that the show is grafting its apocalypse theme onto formats the audience already recognizes rather than reinventing the wheel entirely.

The chaos on display is intentional. Quick cuts of cast members scrambling through obstacles, reacting to stunts, and needling each other in character give the trailer its energy, setting up a tournament that leans as much on personality conflict between Mushroom Clout and ToxiciTEA as it does on the physical events themselves.

The Rollout Begins July 19

Smosh confirmed the tournament’s episodes would begin rolling out across the Smosh family of channels starting July 19, 2019 — four days after the trailer dropped. That timeline gives fans a short window to pick sides and buy team merchandise before the actual competition footage starts landing.

With the roster locked, the teams named, and the first segments teased by title, the only real open question heading into July 19 is whether Mushroom Clout can out-survive ToxiciTEA once the “Punishment Zombie Shootout” actually starts running.