, one of YouTube’s OG creators, rose to internet fame with Smosh — performing goofy, comedic sketches with his longtime friend Ian Hecox.
Now Padilla has unveiled his own production company, Pressalike Productions, to develop and create a slate of unscripted content focusing on “misunderstood topics.” He’s hoping the company can potentially sell its bigger-budget projects to streaming platforms or TV networks. Pressalike’s debut documentary, “I Maid a Mistake,” is set to premiere Friday, Dec. 18, on Padila’s YouTube channel. The one-hour documentary follows Padilla as he prepares for his first live show and transforms into a member of L.A.-based Kiss Pink Maid Cafe — patterned on the Japanese cosplay subculture of anime maid cafés, in which scantily clad servers dote on their patrons.Padilla and his team shot footage for the documentary over a year ago.
The “I Maid a Mistake” documentary film grew out of an episode of “I Spent A Day With…” featuring the anime maid café workers. Padilla told his audience that if the video received over 100,000 likes he would join the maids for a day . Padilla serves as the film’s creator, star and executive producer, alongside Catanese as executive producer and director Zach Zeidman.
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