Ian From SMOSH Calls Out Fans: Has Shipping Gone Too Far?

29 January 2016, 17:35 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 17:09

By Victoria Pavlova

Hope you've saved your receipts, it's callout time.

Here at PopBuzz we've been known to dive into the insane and magical world of shipping every once in a while. You could say we're into it.

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But not everyone shares that passion.

Earlier this week, Ian Hecox, aka one half of the ultra successful YouTube comedy duo SMOSH, tweeted the following:

My thoughts on "ianthony" are as follows... pic.twitter.com/lqNyAVsY8n
— Ian Hecox (@SmoshIan) January 28, 2016

Obviously, Ian isn't speaking against his shippers - although if you're writing 14-chapter stories about the Smosh family orgy, you may want to re-evaluate your life choices. Also, we'd like a link to that, please and thank you.

The trouble here is with the extreme stans, those that will literally go after any potential love interest that threatens their ship.

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Plenty of YouTubers have spoken out against this aspect of fan culture, but with so many videos making fun of "fangirls" as a mass entity, the message tends to get lost. We're happy to see calm, sane messages like this coming from top YouTube creators like Smosh.