About

Tom Scott is a British YouTuber known for educational videos covering science, linguistics and history, among other topics. He has become very popular on the site, amassing over 3.4 million subscribers.

History

British-born Tom Scott launched his YouTube channel on May 17th, 2006.^[1] His early videos found him doing unusual things with food, such as cooking breakfast with a clothing iron and putting salmon in a dishwasher (shown below).

Over the course of 14 years, Scott amassed over 3.4 million subscribers^[1] with a variety of content. On May 15th, 2009, he posted "Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall of a Cliff," gaining over 8.3 million views (shown below, left). To date, his most popular video shows him sending garlic bread to space and eating it. The video was posted on April 23rd, 2018, and amassed over 40 million views (shown below, right).

One of his most notable videos, posted April 8th, 2020, uses an algorithm to continually update the video's title. As of December 29th, 2020, the video has over 26 million views (shown below).

On January 1st, 2024, Tom Scott^[7] uploaded a video titled "After ten years, it's time to stop making videos.", in which he explains that he uploaded a video for his "Things You Might Not Know" series every Monday for 10 years, and that although he will continue to upload videos, they will no longer be uploaded on a regular scheduled basis (shown below). The video that marked the first video in the series is titled "There Are Special Crossings For Horses In Britain" which was uploaded on January 4th 2014^[8] and received over 265,000 views and 7,600 likes in 10 years.

Other Projects

In 2013, Scott received attention from The Guardian^[2] for a Tumblr blog he ran that showed how Facebook used user data. He also works on the YouTube channel Matt and Tom with his friend Matt Gray (shown below).

In 2010, Scott ran for Parliament as a joke candidate against Pirate Party candidate Jack Nunn. He received 84 votes in the election.^[3]

Online Presence

In addition to his sizable YouTube following, Scott has 157,000 Twitter followers^[4] and 20,000 likes on Facebook.^[5] He has requested that no one make a subreddit about him after a subreddit in 2016 allegedly nearly doxxed him.^[6]

On December 28th, 2020, Scott made a video asking "How Weird Is My Audience" in which he polled users on certain questions. One question asked, "Which of these internet phenomena do you remember?", including memes like Yanny or Laurel. Included in that list was a phenomena called the "Mist Challenge," which never existed, but some responders claimed to have remembered it, making a Mandela Effect.

I Am At X

Tom Scott 'I Am At X' (or "I am just outside X") is a catchphrase by the YouTuber Tom Scott introducing places as part of his "Amazing Places" series. In the fall of 2020, the catchphrase was parodied in a series of image macro parodies which featured Scott in front of bizarre places.

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