You really hit the nail on the head. I watched a few videos this morning... They were so incredibly unfunny but it's also like they knew it? it was the "stand-up" Jackbox game from last week, and Courtney & Tommy's TNTL trivial pursuit. they were actively calling out how unfunny eachother was in the Jackbox game, but they just kinda... kept going. It was a really weird vibe. Courtney and Tommy are tenuously funny at best and usually very dry, so they didn't have nearly as much charisma and chemistry as Shayne and Damien's video doing the same. Courtney and Tommy even had spans of minutes where neither could make the other laugh. Plus all the comments on the other video asking for more like it definitely meant more with Shayne & Damien and not more of that particular format... lol
They have a lot of really strong comedians and entertainers right now, but they're trying to force them so hard into the old, tired Smosh formats and maintain that 2010's youtube wholesome vibe. It's not going as well as it could and it's really starting to feel like a money pit.