Thomas James Ridgewell (born 27 June 1990), known online as TomSka, is a British YouTuber, filmmaker, actor, comedian, vlogger, and musician, as well as founder of TurboPunch Ltd. He is known for writing, directing, and starring his live-action sketch comedy YouTube videos and animated web-series such as asdfmovie, Eddsworld, and Crash Zoom. As of November 2020, his YouTube channel has over 6.69 million subscribers and his videos have garnered over 1.7 billion views.
As a professional YouTuber, Ridgewell earns money from revenue on his videos on the website. He has been discussed and interviewed in relation to this, especially when the medium of online video was in its infancy. He has appeared as a guest on the BBC's The One Show and created short films for Comedy Central.
In October 2007, Ridgewell created a secondary channel called TomSka & Friends (formerly known as DarkSquidge). As of September 2020, the channel has over 1 million subscribers and over 144 million views. While his main channel consists of sketch comedy and animations, The TomSka & Friends channel shows behind the scenes footage of TomSka related projects and videos, as well as vlogging. Ridgewell also engages in social commentary, covering a range of topics such as mental health, sexual health, and body positivity. From April 2016 to February 2018, he uploaded weekly vlogs to the channel in a series named Last Week.
In 2008, Ridgewell released the first episode of asdfmovie, an animated sketch comedy series featuring short clips of minimalist characters in surreal and occasionally darkly humorous situations. The song "Beep Beep I'm a Sheep" by Canadian musician LilDeuceDeuce with vocals by Ridgewell and Gabriel Brown, released alongside asdfmovie10, was featured in the dance rhythm game Just Dance 2018. A book based on the asdfmovie series, titled Art is Dead: the asdf book, was written by Ridgewell, illustrated by Matt Ley, and published by Little Brown on 22 October 2015. A second book titled Sam Kills Christmas, written by Ridgewell and Eddie Bowley with illustrations by Dorina Herdewijn, was released on 8 November 2018.
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