![]() In late 2018, the channel became the host of videos of The Technical Difficulties, including "The Experiments" (2018), where the troupe piloted a number of game show ideas. The series was produced weekly from its inception until 24 March 2018, when they announced that the series would no longer be produced on a regular schedule due to time constraints. The channel hosted The Park Bench, where the pair would sit on a park bench and discuss videos, their travels, and other anecdotes. Scott at Computing Insight UK in 2016Īt the end of 2015, Scott launched a collaborative YouTube channel with his colleague and friend, Matt Gray, called Matt & Tom. He is known for wearing red T-shirts, originally worn out of a need for continuity during filming, and because Scott was wearing a red t-shirt in the primary picture he used on his personal website at the time, and used red as the accent colour for the website. He produced explanations of computer security issues on Brady Haran's YouTube channel, Computerphile. ![]() Scott would walk through a chosen Wikipedia article, while his fellow panellists guessed facts about the article. Hosted on the channel was the series Citation Needed with The Technical Difficulties which ran for eight seasons, from March 2014 to November 2018. Scott produces and uploads educational videos to the channel across a range of topics including linguistics, history, geography, science and technology. Scott uploaded cooking videos in which he would cook food in odd ways. The channel originally had the username "enyay", derived from the Spanish name of the letter Ñ, "eñe", a username he later "despised". Scott registered his main YouTube channel, Tom Scott, on. ![]() Scott received widespread coverage in 2013 for "Actual Facebook Graph Searches", a Tumblr site which exposed a potentially embarrassing and dangerous collection of public Facebook data using Facebook's Graph Search, such as showing men in Tehran who have said that they were "interested in men" or "single women who live nearby and are interested in men and like getting drunk". The show concluded in 2014 after the commencement of Citation Needed. In 2010, Scott and the Technical Difficulties troupe began the "Reverse Trivia Podcast" series on the Technical Difficulties website, where Scott would read the answer to a 1984 trivia question card while his fellow panellists guessed the question. He captained the Hitchhikers in series 3 of BBC Four's Only Connect in 2010 and was knocked out by the Strategists in the semi-finals, and, in 2012, was a presenter in the Sky 1 series Gadget Geeks alongside Colin Furze and Creative Technologist Charles Yarnold, where he was responsible for the creation of software solutions. Īfter graduating, Scott made several appearances on British television shows both as a contestant and presenter. The show won the Kevin Greening award at the Student Radio Awards. Scott and three friends formed the comedy troupe, The Technical Difficulties, with whom he hosted a radio show of the same name on University Radio York. Scott, on the podcast Corridor Cast, said that it was terrible as he did not know what to do, so his team would fill in for him. Despite running as a joke, he gained almost 3000 votes, won the election, and served as the organisation's 48th president. In 2009, Scott became the UK organiser of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and was subsequently nominated by his friends to run for student president at the University of York Students' Union, under the guise of his Talk Like a Pirate Day persona, "Mad Cap'n Tom Scott". Career Early career Scott at BarCamp London in 2008 ![]() ![]() This resulted in the Cabinet Office demanding the site be deleted, to which Scott sent a "polite response declining to take down the site". While at university in 2004, he produced a website parodying the British government's " Preparing for Emergencies" website, including a section explaining what to do in case of a zombie apocalypse. He later earned an MA in educational studies. Thomas Scott was born in Mansfield, and graduated from the University of York with a degree in linguistics and the English language. As of May 2023, his five YouTube channels have collectively gained over 7.35 million subscribers and 1.72 billion views. He has four other channels: Matt and Tom (featuring Matt Gray), Tom Scott plus (featuring collaborations with a number of other creators), The Technical Difficulties (featuring him with the other members of the comedy troupe of the same name), and Lateral with Tom Scott (a podcast based on his 2018 game show of the same name). His self-titled YouTube channel offers educational videos across a range of topics including history, geography, linguistics, science, and technology. Thomas Scott is an English YouTuber and web developer. ![]()
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