AsapScience

AsapScience, stylized as AsapSCIENCE, is a YouTube channel created by Canadian YouTubers Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown. The channel produces a range of videos that touch on various concepts related to science and technology. AsapScience is one of the largest educational channels on YouTube. The channel was created in May 2012 and had acquired more than 7 million subscribers by March 2018, and 10 million by 2025. In addition to videos explaining scientific news and research, the channel produces songs, several of which have achieved viral fame and also created controversy. Moffit and Brown are an openly gay couple who met while studying biology at the University of Guelph. They made their relationship public online in 2014, two years after starting their channel, in response to derogatory comments and in order to be visible role models for young gay people interested in science. Moffit and Brown have been praised for prompting meaningful dialogue about LGBTQ+ issues. AsapScience videos are about science, with many episodes, such as How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?, discussing functions of the human body. They have produced songs about scientific concepts, such as Science Love Song, Periodic Table Song, and 100 Digits of Pi.