Turns out making a YouTube prank show can be 'toxic' to a relationship

LOS ANGELES -- A month after Jesse Wellens and Jeana Smith -- a.k.a. PrankvsPrank -- announced their break-up via YouTube comes this revelation: making a show together may not be the healthiest thing for a relationship.

"It was great in the beginning but then it slowly ... it kinda like polluted our relationship and made it toxic," the 31-year-old Wellens said Thursday during an episode of Shane Dawson's Fullscreen video podcast Shane & Friends.

The duo, who have gone their separate ways both personally and professionally, recently starred in a YouTube red series Prank Academy. They had been pranking each other on the Internet since 2007.

"I couldn’t figure out, 'Am I doing this because I want to do this or am I doing this for the vlog?'" Wellens said. "And it was just bad so and I was, like, 'We need to figure something out,' So we are just going to stop daily vlogging and maybe take some time apart to try and figure out who we are as people because we only knew who we were together."

Their break-up announcement has racked up over 10 million views.

Two weeks ago, Smith also spoke out in a video titled "Update," which has amassed more than 8 million views. Both said they still have a great deal of love for one another.

"Jesse and I have been speaking," Smith said. "We still love and care about each other. I'm always there for him. We've experienced so much together in life and I guess now we are going to try and experience things individually and see what it's like."

"We still love each other greatly and we still have lots of respect for each other," Wellens said. "I just felt like we were doing stuff for the vlog and not for our relationship anymore."

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