1/2/2023 0 Comments Fnaf world clockĪt 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 color for the website. He additionally produced explanations of computer security issues on Brady Haran's YouTube channel, Computerphile. In this series Scott would walk through a chosen Wikipedia article, while his fellow panellists attempted to guess facts about the article. Also hosted on the channel was the series Citation Needed with The Technical Difficulties over 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. Īt the start of his YouTube channel, Tom uploaded several cooking videos in which he would cook food in odd ways. As of November 2021, his public videos have more than 1 billion views and surpassed 4 million subscribers. Scott registered his main YouTube channel, Tom Scott (originally under the username "enyay", derived from the Spanish name of the letter Ñ, "eñe" ), 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 wherein Scott would read the answer to a 1984 trivia question card while his fellow panellists attempted to guess the question. He captained the Hitchhikers in series 3 of BBC Four's Only Connect in 2010 but 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 later won the Kevin Greening award at the Student Radio Awards. That same year, Scott and three friends formed the comedy troupe, The Technical Difficulties, with whom he hosted an eponymous radio show on University Radio York. When he was on a podcast called Corridor Cast he said that it was terrible as he didn't know what to do. Despite running as a joke, he 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". This resulted in the Cabinet Office demanding the site be taken down Scott sent a "polite response declining to take down the site" as of December 2021, the site is still live. While at university, in 2004, Scott 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. Originally from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, Scott graduated from the University of York with a degree in linguistics.
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