Tom Scott will post 26 more videos before taking a break after 10 years of weekly content.

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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.

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It’s always nice to see things come to their natural conclusion, without overstaying their welcome.

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He’ll disappear for a little while get bored and keep doing it.

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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.

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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.

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Yeah that way back when he had a ponytail and looked completely different in every way, minus the shirt.s.

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Mixup knows a thing or two about taking breaks. They took a three day break from pooping.

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112 points

I’m gonna miss his videos but the man really earned his vacation. Best of luck to him.

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He really is a diamond in a sea of shitty YouTube channels.

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Technology Connections is another top tier channel without enough recognition.

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24 points

Yes. I love that guy. He’s on Mastodon too, which is super cool for the fediverse.

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He’s also on lemmy

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I might have to get mastodon then

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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.

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TC’s videos are kinda too long for my taste tho (tom scott length is ideal)

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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.

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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.

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End of an era

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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).

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Jesus… I watch his content and never realized he did weekly! That’s incredible with his quality of content.

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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)

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Yep, similar story for Coop772 from the Nerf community.

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Even PewDiePie is taken a break to be a father

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But one day after he uploaded the break video, he posted another one. :")

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