Tom Scott will post 26 more videos before taking a break after 10 years of weekly content.
Before anyone gets really bummed, his channel’s not going away. He’s just taking a much deserved break from ten years of weekly uploads (which is an absolutely insane record considering the quality of his content).
Jesus… I watch his content and never realized he did weekly! That’s incredible with his quality of content.
My man deserves his break after working nonstop and producing consistently high quality videos for a whole decade.
I remember his video testing if pineapples can remove your fingerprint.
They don’t. He did discover the absolutely horrible pain of trying to sleep whilst having exposed tissue in the tips of every finger though.
That’s a man dedicated to a YouTube channel.
Wasn’t that extremely early in his career? That’s a young and foolish man finding out what he doesn’t want to do for a YouTube channel.
Yeah, it’s one of those sad but beautiful things. I’m glad he went this route instead of trying to find some way to phone it in or something.
He really is a diamond in a sea of shitty YouTube channels.
Technology Connections is another top tier channel without enough recognition.
Yes. I love that guy. He’s on Mastodon too, which is super cool for the fediverse.
I don’t know about not enough recognition, there’s plenty of awesome channels with only 1K subscribers. He has 2M subscribers and 1M views per 30 min+ video about random old appliances. That amount of recognition is impressive.
I love technology connections too though.
TC’s videos are kinda too long for my taste tho (tom scott length is ideal)
There are so many fucking good ones. It’s less of a sea and more if an entire galaxy at this point, and there’s whole planets to explore.
Totally agree. YouTube is a place I can watch someone tinker with some 30 year old CAD software on 30 year old hardware for an hour, and somehow there’s 100k other weirdos enjoying the same content.
God I wish discovery features were better. There’s so much great stuff out there but it’s so hard to find it.
I’m gonna miss his videos but the man really earned his vacation. Best of luck to him.
I hope he enjoys his well earned break, dude makes some of my favourite content on YouTube
Man, I thought he was quitting for something that happened but it’s just a (well deserved) break, good for him.
I hope he takes all the rest he deserves and starts uploading again whenever he feels like it (even switching to an irregular schedule would be fine, most channels that keep a weekly one end up getting stale at some point and the fact he’s been doing it for ten years with this level of quality is amazing)
He doesn’t seem the type that’s able to stop doing something. My bet is he’ll take a well deserved break and come back full force with a new project.
A couple of years back he did stop the park bench with Matt cold turkey though… So I can see him stopping or massively slowing down his main channel stuff, but he will keep doing other things on the side for sure!
Idk where this upheaval always comes from when a Youtuber decides to not work for a while. If Dan Smithson in 69 Boredom-Boulevard, Unspectacular-City, Illinois decides to take a break from freelance-work, no one bats an eye. But if a Youtuber does it, everybody loses their minds!
Because Dan Smithson in 69 Boredom-Boulevard, Unspectacular-City, Illinois has not contributed anything to my life, as far as I can tell, so his actions are irrelevant to me.
Tom Scott on the other hand has provided a lot of content that I find interesting so naturally anything that stops him from doing the thing I like IS relevant to me.
Likewise, if I quit my job, I don’t expect you to care. But I’m sure my family would care greatly.
I don’t really get why some YouTubers keep a schedule to begin with. I’m fine with them coming out with content whenever they have something, it doesn’t have to be the same time of the week every week. It’s not TV, I’m fine with waiting.
You might be fine with waiting, but if your food money depended on YT monetization you’d be stressed out as well. Those schedules are not for you the individual viewer. It’s a preservation strategy to keep videos in the suggestion algo and bring in enough view counts in a short enough time span such that the revenue is worth the amount of resources, time and effort it takes to produce the videos. Time is of the essence here. 1000 views in a 1 y.o. video will produce a minuscule fraction of the money of 1000 views between the first 2 hours of a video premiere. The worse part is that a single miss can mean the end of a channel. All that effort to be put by the algorithm in front of users is completely lost with a single miss of some form of regular schedule and now the channel is back at square 1 making no money or so little as to not be worth the effort to publish again.
Before anyone gets really bummed, his channel’s not going away. He’s just taking a much deserved break from ten years of weekly uploads (which is an absolutely insane record considering the quality of his content).
A well deserved break, the amount of travelling he does for his videos must be an insane amount of miles.
I want to believe that he has accumulated many air miles, and is going on one hell of a holiday.
“I am in the Heathrow British Airways First Class lounge with a bottle of champagne”.
I’ve loved his content for years now. He did say that he was just slowing down, not stopping and I fully support him prioritizing life.
Clearly we are all fans here, so I’ll ask what other channels people would recommend?
My top of head list includes: “Stuff Made Here” “CGPgrey” “AvE” “MinutePhysics”.
Technology Connections for that real deep dive into shit you never knew you wanted to know.
