Tom Scott’s channel will stop six months from now

Yes. I love that guy. He's on Mastodon too, which is super cool for the fediverse.

I don't know about not enough recognition, there's plenty of awesome channels with only 1K subscribers. He has 2M subscribers and 1M views per 30 min+ video about random old appliances. That amount of recognition is impressive.

I love technology connections too though.

TC's videos are kinda too long for my taste tho (tom scott length is ideal)

Totally agree. YouTube is a place I can watch someone tinker with some 30 year old CAD software on 30 year old hardware for an hour, and somehow there’s 100k other weirdos enjoying the same content.

God I wish discovery features were better. There’s so much great stuff out there but it’s so hard to find it.

Even PewDiePie is taken a break to be a father

He then started up Tom Scott Plus and they ramped up the technical difficulties channel so it holds that he probably only stopped one thing so he could start something else.

"I am in the Heathrow British Airways First Class lounge with a bottle of champagne".

Really enjoy that channel. Want to watch 3 hours of content about juke boxes, or laser discs? He's got you covered, and that's way more interesting than it sounds like it should be.

I didn’t think I’d ever feel passionately about heat pumps, but thanks to his channel I’ll happily try to convince anyone I talk to that they need to switch to one.

I wasn't expecting to watch a one hour long video about fridges a few days ago but yet here we are. He has a way about keeping me engaged with things I never knew I wanted to know

Watched a long video about kettles from him yesterday. The things you don’t think will be interesting.

Cathode Ray Dude too.

I'd add Mark Rober, legal eagle, cinema therapy, half as interesting (also a Wendover productions), and Kyle hill

It’s a different approach from Every Frame, but Thomas Flight scratches the same itch for film analysis.

Also a quick shoutout to a local urbanism channel with cool niche topics, About Here is pretty great.

Yeah, too bad about AvE. If you liked his old stuff, check out SuperfastMatt. Engineering of wild project cars, and the headaches of engineering wild project cars.

Unrelated to AvE, but also ZeFrank for well researched comedy nature videos

Yeah, he certainly had a slump, and went political for a bit, but seems to be at least somewhat returning to form.

This articulated response is why I switched to Lemmy. 💜

Because that's what the algorithms that will boost your channel like. Regular once a week videos at least. By taking a break not only do we miss out on shows his show will drop right down in the algorithm and he will lose income

Algorithm likes regular content

Many of them are trying to play an algorithm and retain consistent views to have a semi consistent salary.

You could do the willy nilly approach but a lot of people struggle to manage bulk amounts of short term money long term.

Yes, most who use this approach usually burn themselves out extremely quickly. It's testament to Tom and his content that he has been able to keep this going for 10 years.

You might be fine with waiting, but if your food money depended on YT monetization you'd be stressed out as well. Those schedules are not for you the individual viewer. It's a preservation strategy to keep videos in the suggestion algo and bring in enough view counts in a short enough time span such that the revenue is worth the amount of resources, time and effort it takes to produce the videos. Time is of the essence here. 1000 views in a 1 y.o. video will produce a minuscule fraction of the money of 1000 views between the first 2 hours of a video premiere. The worse part is that a single miss can mean the end of a channel. All that effort to be put by the algorithm in front of users is completely lost with a single miss of some form of regular schedule and now the channel is back at square 1 making no money or so little as to not be worth the effort to publish again.

yeah, I think most users don't know the schedule their Youtubers seem to be super stressed out about all the time. They click on whatever appears on their timeline.

They are one of today's lucky 10K

I mean, honestly his titles and thumbnails don’t stand out much, and most of the themes he explores in his videos aren’t something you’d intentionally search for, it just gets lost in the sea of youtubers talking about generic stuff while usually not saying anything at all.

I personally found him through the “This Video has (X) Views” video, (probably the most interesting title on his channel, if not in the whole Youtube), started watching to see how it was possible and at the end I was like “wtf, this guy is awesome” and started bingewatching most of his stuff.

Never watched Nile Red, looked him up and will definitely watch some of those videos.

Just so you know, you can edit titles on Lemmy!

I think he looks exactly like a guy who aged ten years.

I mean, he really does. His hair’s almost fully grayed out and he’s got some wrinkles here and there. He looks much older than 39 imo.

Not that it really matters, we love him because of his personality and that hasn’t changed, but to say he hasn’t aged much in the past 10 years is a bit of a stretch.