his other brother, Tim Scott (from the channel The Tim Traveller) still upload on location videos, just like Tom

I’d like him to do more, but maybe he’s done everything interesting enough to make it onto his channel. I’d rather he stop than start making lower quality (in terms of topics) videos.

Maybe he’s just embodying the quote: “you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”.

I’m honestly excited. He mentioned in the video how there will probably be some more experimental stuff, and I really like his experimental stuff. Money, for example, was really good. And there’s still Lateral for us to listen to while we wait.

and Technical Difficulties

Which is…?

Who are you?

Hell, he even said as much. That he’ll most likely make some more videos. It’s basically just a departure from the feeling of obligation to keep up a weekly schedule.

Though, he’s not even leaving content creation. He’s still got plenty of other projects running. That makes him less likely to hop back on than most, since he’s actually got real other plans

To me, this farewell video was more about ending the weekly churn than anything else. He probably sees the millions of subscribers and figures that people hit that button to get more of exactly what he was producing, and when it would release. The non-commital tone here also suggests that he has no idea how/what is going to change, and that he’s taking a indeterminately long break to avoid burnout.

In retrospect, his channel has been astonishingly high quality considering the rate of production he’s had. And that’s with all these side-projects and local/international travel on top of it all.

Scaling back to less frequent releases may well improve his already impressive content style. I’m excited to see what he does next.

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He’s not even really gone. He’s just not doing 52 videos a year, on the regular.

Presumably his next release will be circa February. Just a wild guess for enjoying a long-anticipated break. Then I’d expect another 20-odd videos this year, distributed basically at random.

Not counting videos that are just him and the squad, which will hopefully come back in style. Citation Needed videos are fantastic. Four people with wildly different areas of expertise, who’ve known each other for ages, faffing about on-camera.

It’s not about viewership at all imo. It’s extremely hard to completely change your lifestyle after 10 years of exact same work. I bet he’ll be back very soon, perhaps on random schedule, but still doing the same stuff

I bet they have. Tom Scott is just too pure.

He said once his iconic red shirt and grey sweater started from a weeks long TV shoot he was doing where everyone wore a different color and he naturally ended up with several identical outfits for continuity throughout the shoot

For the past decade I’ve been waking up to a new Tom Scott video every Monday. The positivity and curiosity helped me start my week. I’m really going to miss it.

It feels like a bit of ‘old internet’ died with him, where he’s always been an internet optimist and someone who has lived through basically all of it. He stuck to his principles through all of it. And I guess that has become a rarified breed.

Him taking a step back feels like a bit of that old internet of the curiosity, community and creativity of the early days of the internet go with him. Mind you he’s not going anywhere except the people he cares about and I completely understand the choice he made, and I only wish the best for him, so this is just me attempting to explain why it feels so confronting and kind of sad. For me it goes beyond ‘oh there just won’t be anymore of those videos then’, which I can live with although it would be sad to see those go. It’s his personality that has, through the entire history of youtube and the many, many changes it went through, stuck to the principles of its first ever users. Be curious, be authentic, and generally just try shit out and see if it works.

I’m sure that core of the personality he showed on screen will never really go away, other people will carry that torch. But it’s ok to be a little sad to see someone wave off like this. It shows us all how much we enjoyed it all these years.

Also as a MINOR sidenote on the meme, he never refused to explain, you couldn’t stop this man from explaining if you tried lol

I had to turn it off when that started. Noped out of there and the nieces and nephews came in from outside asking me what’s wrong.

Gonna try again during a later, more private moment.

I was thinking about this earlier. I’m not sure the OBE would consider his achievements to be noteworthy. If you look at other notable recipients, they all had careers spanning many decades, and the ones in entertainment all have backgrounds in more “classy” vocations (theater, film, music). I’m not sure they’d consider “some guy posting videos on the Internet” (from their perspective) to be of sufficient pedigree. That, and occasionally poking fun at the government and royalty probably hasn’t put him very high on the list.

However, i think that even if he was offered knighthood, he’d probably decline it, either because he thinks he doesn’t deserve it or because he would be too nervous or embarrassed to accept it.