AsapScience, stylized as AsapSCIENCE, is a YouTube channel created by Canadian YouTubers Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown. The channel produces weekly videos that touch on many different topics of science. The two creators have a secondary channel, Greg and Mitch, which contains videos discussing several topics.
Team
Mitchell "Mitch" Moffit, born, creator and host
Gregory "Greg" Brown, born, creator and host
Moffit and Brown are an openly gay couple who met while studying biology at the University of Guelph. They made their sexualities and relationship public online in 2014, two years after starting their channel, in response to homophobic comments and in order to be visible role models for young gay people interested in science.
Rachel Salt, researcher
Max Simmons, illustrator
Chelsea Scherer, digital manager
Sel Ghebrehiwot, editor
Kurzgesagt
Channel
AsapScience videos are about science, with many episodes, such as How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?, discussing functions of the human body. They sometimes make songs explaining science such as Science Love Song and Periodic Table Song. Each video's scientific concepts are conveyed using colored drawings on a whiteboard and voice-over narration. As revealed in a behind-the-scenes video, Mitchell voices and composes the background music for the videos, while Greg is the primary illustrator. The most viewed video of the channel currently is Do You Hear "Yanny" or "Laurel"?, which has 60 million views. Their videos have been featured in websites such as The Huffington Post, and Gizmodo. In March 2015, Moffit and Brown released their first book, AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena.
Collaborations
AsapScience has collaborated with Vsauce3 on 4 videos, The Scientific Secret of Strength and Muscle Growth and What if Superman Punched You?, Can We Genetically Improve Intelligence? and Can You Genetically Enhance Yourself?. One of the videos, Could We Stop An Asteroid?, features Bill Nye, who discusses different ways humanity could stop an asteroid if one were on a collision course for Earth. On 2 February 2014, AsapScience announced that they have collaborated with CBC News to produce one video daily related to sports, for 19 days starting from 6 February. AsapScience also appeared in IISuperwomanII's '#LEH' and 'IVIVI'. In December 2017, AsapScience appeared on Rhett and Link's YouTube channel Good Mythical Morning.
Religion
On 16 March 2017, AsapScience released a video regarding the existence of God and whether it could be proven through the use of math, titled "Can Math Prove God's Existence?". The video sparked a lot of controversy and received a channel-highest dislike percentage of nearly 44%.
Statistics
As of 1 February 2020, AsapScience and Greg and Mitch have over 9.7 million subscribers combined.
Subscribers
Views
AsapSCIENCE
8,900,000
1,327,227,652
Greg and Mitch
854,000
63,247,913
Total
9,754,000
1,390,475,565
Other work
In February 2016, Mitchell Moffit was announced as one of the 16 HouseGuests on Big Brother Canada 4. He placed 11th and was evicted on day 42 in a 5-3 eviction vote. He was the first member of the Jury.
