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Barges into Youtube
Uploads interesting videos weekly for a decade
Refuses to elaborate further
Heads off into the sunset
Image of Tom Scott flying under a helicopter in a harness
Honestly, this is the first time I've ever heard of him. Guess I missed all that!
Still a decade of good vids, if you felt so inclined
Cheers, Tom.
On one side I'm partly sad that he's stopping those, but on another respect, he earned it and more!
Be free!!
Legend!
An absolute national treasure. People have been given MBEs or even OBEs for far lesser achievements.
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.
Brady Haran (numberphile etc.) was made an OAM, the Australian equivalent of an OBE, largely for his YouTube work. So it's not impossible.
Saying that Tom Scott "refuses to elaborate further" may be the biggest stretch I've ever seen on the Internet.
I thought the guy was meh. Very much the middle of the road for big sci-comm Youtubers. Less annoying than some of the other really big ones. Him dropping the weekly cadence is only a bummer because I'd been tracking the passage of time by his receeding hairline, like counting rings on a tree stump.
Awww damn.
Name every British person