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.
He really is a diamond in a sea of shitty YouTube channels.
Technology Connections is another top tier channel without enough recognition.
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)
Yes. I love that guy. He’s on Mastodon too, which is super cool for the fediverse.
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!
My man deserves his break after working nonstop and producing consistently high quality videos for a whole decade.
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.
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).
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)
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!
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.
I’m gonna miss his videos but the man really earned his vacation. Best of luck to him.
