Thomas Scott is an English YouTuber, game show host, and web developer. Scott is best known for producing online videos for his YouTube channel, which mainly comprises educational videos across a range of topics including history, science, technology, and linguistics. As of May 2021, Scott's channel has more than 864.63 million views and 3.79 million subscribers.
Scott registered his main YouTube channel, Tom Scott (originally under the username 'enyay', derived from the letter Ñ), on 17 May 2006. As of April 2021, the total view count of its public videos is 871.51 million.
At the start of his YouTube channel, Tom uploaded several cooking videos in which he would cook food in odd ways.
Scott produces and uploads educational videos to the channel across a range of topics including linguistics, history, science and technology. Also hosted on the channel was a filmed version of Citation Needed with The Technical Difficulties over eight seasons, from March 2014 to November 2018. He additionally produced explanations of computer security issues on Brady Haran's YouTube channel, Computerphile. 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 color for the website.
At the end of 2015, Scott launched a collaborative YouTube channel with his colleague and friend, Matt Gray, called Matt & Tom. The channel hosted The Park Bench wherein the pair would sit on a park bench and discuss videos, their travels, and other anecdotes. 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. In late 2018, the channel became a vehicle for videos of The Technical Difficulties, including "The Experiments" (2018), where the troupe piloted a number of game show ideas. As of 12 June 2019, it is airing their new series Two Of These People Are Lying, in which Scott has to guess which of the troupe is giving accurate information pertaining to a Wikipedia article whose title he has drawn from a prepared stack.
In November 2018, Scott founded Pad 26 Limited, a company offering content production, format development, and YouTube consultancy.
In 2021, Scott challenged artificial intelligence education YouTuber Jordan Harrod to create a deepfake version of him for $100. In a collaboration video posted on his channel, Harrod succeeded to do so and also discussed the tech and dangers associated with deepfakes.
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