Mental Floss YouTube channel, made with John and Hank (2013)
project history · status: last documented in 2014 (looked back on in 2025) · last event: milestone (2014-05-30) · last mentioned: 2025-12-09
In February 2013 John announced that he and Hank were working on bringing Mental Floss to YouTube, with list videos, quizzes and a new intro.
Parts: John asks viewers to subscribe to the Mental Floss YouTube channel hosted by the brothers (2013)
Told alongside: Animal Wonders: launch of Jessi Knudsen Castañeda's rescued-animal channel (2014) · How to Adult: launch of the channel (2014) · SciShow: launch of Hank's science channel (2011) · John's FIFA career with Swindon Town, 'The Miracle of Swindon Town' (2011) · Sexplanations: Lindsay Doe's sex-education YouTube channel, made with Hank (2013) · The Brain Scoop: Emily Graslie's YouTube show from the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum (2012)
About: Mental Floss, YouTube
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-02-19 | announced | John announces that he and Hank are working on bringing Mental Floss to YouTube, with list videos, quizzes and a cool intro. | Doing Things, On the Importance of 00:00:52 |
| 2013-05-07 | milestone | John says Mark is the producer and director of the Mental Floss channel, and Stan, as always, is working on Crash Course. | The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour 00:02:11 |
| 2013-06-04 | milestone | During the leave there will be a Crash Course US History video every Thursday, a mental floss video every Wednesday, and Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers FIFA games every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. | A New Nerdfighter Baby 00:00:55 |
| 2013-10-15 | milestone | John says Crash Course, SciShow and Mental Floss all have large and growing audiences. | Thoughts for Nerdfighteria 00:01:20 |
| 2014-05-30 | milestone | Hank lists census shares unaware of their shows: 14% Mental Floss, 30% SciShow Space, 33% Sexplanations with Dr. Lindsey Doe, 50% How to Adult, 64% Animal Wonders. | Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! 00:01:00 |
| 2014-09-30 | looked back | John asks whether he should focus on Mental Floss, Crash Course, The Art Assignment, Vlogbrothers or the Wimbly Womblys, and whether doing all of them means doing none well. (unsure) | Keeping it EVEN REALER 00:01:38 |
| 2025-12-09 | looked back | For Y, YouTube, John says he hasn't mentioned half the shows Hank helped produce, such as PBS Eons, Animal Wonders, Brain Scoop and Mental Floss. | Hank Green, from A to Z 00:05:21 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — ask: In the description John asks viewers to subscribe to the Mental Floss YouTube channel, which he says the brothers host. — video description
- 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — recommendation: John's advice to people starting as writers is to find others who are also starting out and work with them; his own first writing gig was with Mental Floss. — 00:00:40
- 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — announcement: John: Mental Floss, now an educational and trivia empire, has never had a YouTube channel; John and Hank are working on bringing it to YouTube, with list videos, quizzes and a cool intro. — 00:00:49
- 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — John says Danica works on Crash Course, doing its excellent chalkboard drawings and also the Mental Floss set. — 00:00:19
- 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — John says Meredith writes for Mental Floss and, more importantly, is the CEO of the Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers. (playful) — 00:00:33
- 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — John wanted Hank to see the office because Hank had shown John his, and to meet the people who actually make Crash Course, Mental Floss and the Swoodilypoopers happen. — 00:02:40