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Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others? Nile Red Nick Zentner Practical Engineering Real Engineering Ivan Miranda Joe Makes Tom Stanton Veritasium Numberphile Deep Sky Videos Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great) 3Blue1Br…

I'll add some: AlphaPhoenix - science Jay Foreman - UK centric cartography skits, very funny Atomic Frontier - various, Tom Scott style Climate Town - US centric climate related skits, very informative, also very funny Dr. Becky - astronomy Into Europe - light, EU related informative skits Johnny Harris - journalist turned YouTuber, opinionated but tries to keep a politically neutral stance

Atomic frontier definitely feels like a baby Tom Scott. It's been lovely to see him grow.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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I always appreciate when authors of successful projects decide to stop after they've figured out the formula for success. Whether these are films without sequels, TV shows without dozens of seasons, or video content creators who are not compelled to keep uploading in perpetuity. It shows true care and dedication to their craft, and a desire to keep innovating in perhaps other areas of their career. It also avoids the…

Thanks for mentioning the "Seinfeld strategy", just googled it. Love it. Might just use it to plan my January.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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I do the same thing, but they just show me more garbage. My "subscriptions" tab is pretty good, though.

There seems to be a few topics which will cause your recommendations to spiral into conspiracy theory nonsense pretty quickly. Unfortunately you’ve got to be very careful with any gun content in YouTube as they almost always lead to bullshit in your feed.

Garand Thumb videos I've seen have been very good. Like the one about what supersonic rounds sound like going overhead. I'd guess there's somewhat less overlap with his content and conspiracy stuff.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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What a brilliant bit of foreshadowing with the helicopter statement. Given the other comments about the deep sea or space, maybe those are areas which he hopes he could've explored which he might end up tackling at some point! I'm really glad I was around for his journey. Sometimes creatives will keep pushing a form of media long past the point where it's interesting or exciting. It takes a great deal of courage and…

He really had me at the helicopter, too. I just had to smile, it made me happy.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Applied Science Ze Frank Asianometry Premodernist Integza

There are just so many great educational/maker channels, here's a bunch more that are least known on my list (in no particular order): Not David iforce2d Chronova Engineering Posy SuperfastMatt Michael Rechtin AlphaPhoenix Hyperspace Pirate Nicholas Rehm James Biggar Casual Navigation Kraut Spanning Tree Geo History EgyptologyLessons Carl Bugeja electrosync Historia Civilis Jeremy Fielding there oughta be Andreas Spi…

Sam Aronow is great if you are interested in Jewish history.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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I first saw Tom Scott onscreen around 2010, when he appeared as a contestant on the esoteric - and very good - BBC quiz show Only Connect. Link to 2022 Reddit discussion, which includes video [0].

It is a fun look back at a ponytailed Tom exercising his intellect and his natural aplomb on-camera, at around - or perhaps just before? - the era when his Youtube work began in earnest.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/pypew1/tom_scott_wa...

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CGP Grey did almost zero YouTube content in the past few years. Definitely not “frequent”.

We need to figure out what "frequent" is here. Tom Scott was doing >4 videos per month, Mr. Beast does about 2 per month, CGP Grey has done 1 per month for a decade. Tom Scott, even on a very relaxing working schedule, could put out 1 video per month.

These days Grey doesnt even do 1 per month. What does he even do now, only Cortex? I sometimes missed Hello Internet.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others? Nile Red Nick Zentner Practical Engineering Real Engineering Ivan Miranda Joe Makes Tom Stanton Veritasium Numberphile Deep Sky Videos Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great) 3Blue1Br…

I'll add some: AlphaPhoenix - science Jay Foreman - UK centric cartography skits, very funny Atomic Frontier - various, Tom Scott style Climate Town - US centric climate related skits, very informative, also very funny Dr. Becky - astronomy Into Europe - light, EU related informative skits Johnny Harris - journalist turned YouTuber, opinionated but tries to keep a politically neutral stance

Climate Town is savage

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others? Nile Red Nick Zentner Practical Engineering Real Engineering Ivan Miranda Joe Makes Tom Stanton Veritasium Numberphile Deep Sky Videos Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great) 3Blue1Br…

There are so many great channels on there! Here are a few of my recent favorites: Laura Kampf - german maker and problem solver, currently renovating a 120 year old house Jimmy Diresta - maker and designer, also renovating an old house in upstate New York Adam Savage - from MythBusters, interesting builds, and interesting discussion of shop and building techniques Rambling Wild Rosie - former long-distance hiker and…

Paul Sellers is a giant among us mere woodworkers.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others? Nile Red Nick Zentner Practical Engineering Real Engineering Ivan Miranda Joe Makes Tom Stanton Veritasium Numberphile Deep Sky Videos Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great) 3Blue1Br…

Sebastian Lague is in the same vein, makes some of the best code exploration project videos I've seen. Highly entertaining and informative.

He and CodingTrain are my favorites.
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