AsapScience

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AsapSCIENCE
YouTube channel (education, science)
language English
founding June 12, 2012
channels Greg and Mitch
Subscribers over 8,700,000
Calls over 1,265,000,000
Videos over 300
Contributors

Gregory Brown, Mitchell Moffit

AsapScience ( spelling AsapSCIENCE ) is a YouTube channel founded by Canadians Gregory Brown and Mitchell Moffit , on which scientific videos are published weekly.

Moffit and Brown also own a secondary channel, Greg and Mitch (formerly AsapTHOUGHT ), which primarily uploads non-scientific videos.

founder

  • Mitchell Moffit was born on March 27, 1988
  • Gregory Brown was born on September 25, 1988

Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown are a publicly known gay couple. They got to know each other at the university where both studied biology. Your Outing took place online simultaneously with the Bekanntgebung their relationship in 2014, to be in response to homophobic comments with the intention of a visible role model for young, gay and lesbian, interested in science people two years after the canal was opened.

channel

AsapScience deals primarily with scientific topics. Many videos deal with the functions of the human body and questions like "How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?" ("How much sleep do you need anyway?") . Among other things, they write songs like "Science Love Song" or "Periodic Table Song" themselves.

The channel's most watched video, What Color is this dress? (What color is this dress?) , Had over 22 million views as of February 2018. The video has been featured on websites such as The Huffington Post , Gizmodo and VirtualDr , among others .

Moffit and Brown published their first book AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistens Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena in March 2015 .

Video format

Mitchell Moffits and Gregory Brown's videos are mostly of the same format. You use a voice from the off while drawings are being made on a whiteboard to support what is being said. In a behind-the-scenes video, they announced that Moffit is responsible for the narrative voice and music, and Brown is the main illustrator.

Cooperations

AsapScience cooperated with Vsauce 3 on 4 videos

  • The Scientific Secret of Strength and Muscle Growth
  • What if Superman Punched You?
  • Can We Genetically Improve Intelligence?
  • Can You Genetically Enhance Yourself?

Among other things, they worked with Bill Nye on the video Could We Stop An Asteroid? together, where different ways were discussed how humanity could stop an asteroid if a collision with Earth was imminent.

On February 2, 2014, AsapScience announced that they were working with CBC News to shoot a video every day for 19 days, starting on February 6, 2014.

Asap Science was among others at IISuperwomanII's # LEH 'and' IVIVI '.

You were also on Rhett and Link's YouTube channel Good Mythical Morning in December 2017 .

Controversy

On March 26, 2017, AsapScience posted a video about the existence of God and whether it could be proven or disproved by mathematics. The video is called Can Math Prove God's Existens? and is the video with the most dislikes so far (as of August 2017). The Italian channel, Canale Test, released a parody of the video that garnered over 15,000 views for AsapScience used "unjustified statements and illogical mindsets".

Other work

In February 2016, Mitchell Moffit was announced as one of 16 house guests on Big Brother Canada 4 . He reached eleventh place and was chosen on the 42nd day with a score of 5: 3. Mitchell Moffit was the first member of the jury.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AsapSCIENCE. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
  2. ^ Greg and Mitch: Coming Out Twice. In: YouteTube. June 11, 2014, accessed March 1, 2018 : "The video was posted on June 11, 2014 and they said they had been together for" seven and a half years. "
  3. ↑ YouTube science hosts come out as a gay couple, condemn homophobic comments . In: PinkNews . ( pinknews.co.uk [accessed March 1, 2018]).
  4. ^ Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown: Coming Out Twice. In: Huffington Post. June 13, 2014. Retrieved March 1, 2018 (American English).
  5. ↑ AsapSCIENCE: What Color Is This Dress? (SOLVED with SCIENCE). February 27, 2015, accessed March 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Asapscience. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
  7. ↑ AsapSCIENCE News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Gizmodo. Retrieved March 1, 2018 (American English).
  8. ↑ دکتر مجازی | علم به روایتی جذاب. http://www.virtualdr.ir/ (in Farsi), accessed on March 1, 2018 (fa-IR).
  9. ↑ AsapSCIENCE . 2015, ISBN 978-1-4767-5621-9 ( simonandschuster.com [accessed March 1, 2018]).
  10. ↑ AsapSCIENCE: Behind The Scenes (The Science of AsapSCIENCE!). August 5, 2013, accessed March 1, 2018 .
  11. ^ Bill Nye Explains How We Could Stop an Asteroid On AsapScience . In: Laughing Squid . July 23, 2013 ( laughingsquid.com [accessed March 1, 2018]).
  12. ↑ AsapSCIENCE: Amazing Olympic Facts. February 2, 2014, accessed March 1, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Strombo.com: How Have Olympians' Bodies Changed Over The Years? AsapSCIENCE Explains. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Good Mythical Morning: Are You A Supertaster? Test button ft. AsapSCIENCE. December 12, 2017, accessed March 1, 2018 .
  15. ↑ AsapSCIENCE: Can Math Prove God's Existence? March 16, 2017, accessed March 1, 2018 .
  16. ↑ AsapSCIENCE: Can Math Prove God's Existence? March 16, 2017, accessed March 1, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Canale Test: Dio esiste? Parodia Scienziati MAY. May 26, 2017, accessed March 1, 2018 .