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Tom Scott stole anons gf (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] Ado@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

I hate that idk if I should believe this or not

[-] alt@sh.itjust.works 58 points 10 months ago

I mean, why wouldn’t you? Why would an anonymous person on the internet lie for no reason?

[spoiler] Yes, it’s obviously fake. Also, I’m pretty sure Tom is gay, isn’t he? [/spoiler]

[-] balls_expert@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 10 months ago

I don't know, isn't he just British?

[-] MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

There are two sexualities: straight and british

[-] supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 4 points 10 months ago

Well it's a spectrum ffs you might be partially British and part straight.

[-] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago

what's the difference?

[-] alt@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

According to my gay British friend, at least, Tom’s accent is super flamboyant by their standards.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think I can give some insight into this. I grew up in the UK in the same sociocultural bubble that Tom did, although a live in another country now. I have also been called skinny and not very manly, and people have asked me once or twice if I'm gay. When I was younger I cared a lot about Following the Rules and being liked by everyone. Ie. typical Nice Guy stuff. I was also always quite tense, especially with my sexuality around girls. Mine and Tom's thing is quite common in the UK and after giving it some thought I think what does it is the authoritarian upbringing. I went through the British school system, and their insistence on uniforms, graceless punishments for normal human mistakes like forgetting your PE kit, and the expectation that you will be a Responsible Young Adult (and not a wild teenager) frightened the cheekiness out of me when I was 7 and made me into what you see there. I'm 20 and it's only started coming back to me in the past couple of years. I have no other childhood trauma so this is what it's got to be.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

you forgot to mention the fact that all most all secondary schools here are single sex.

I barely talked to post puberty women at all until i was in my late teens

you miss out on a lot of primary socialisation in that kind of environment

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Depends on where you live I guess. One of my friends at Uni grew up in quite a posh area and went to an all-boys grammar school, but I'm pretty sure mixed-sex is the norm. I mean my first ever friend in primary school was a girl, it's just that all the ones after that were boys and I just stuck with male friends after that. Doesn't help that I started getting crushes on the girls in class when puberty hit so it was even harder to approach them normally

[-] Latecoere@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

No they're not.

[-] zepheriths@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

I can't verify if he his gay, but he did run for parliament under the name "Mad Cap'n Tom" in 2010 After he lost a bet about the New Orleans Saints winning the Superbowl.

[-] Latecoere@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

His accent ain't flamboyant at all.

[-] Ado@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

It was mostly a joke. I have no idea if he’s gay, I just know he makes amazing videos

[-] kraftpudding@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I don't have any info on this to be honest, but he does not give off het vibes at all. Gay? Aro? Ace? Standard English repressed? Idk, any of those.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure he's mentioned female partners before. I think so, anyway.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago

Yeah, you could easily make this up, and it doesn't feel like something Tom would do

[-] Ado@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Def doesn’t but he does also seem like a smooth mfer

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've always wondered what his personal life is like. I really like that he tries to keep it separated – it's professional – but still.

[-] Heavybell@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

He even said something on the lines of "This Tom Scott is a character. Based on the real one, but nonetheless." I forget his exact wording, or which video it was in.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah, he did say that. I suppose it's natural when there's a side of you that you show to the public and a side that you show to your friends. It's like how everyone acts sightly differently around their parents

[-] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I think any successful, level headed host, actor, media personality has a character they play in public. Actually to expand on that most people that are successful and want to keep sane have a public character.

[-] sdoorex@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago
[-] Heavybell@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Hmm, no not that one. Tho it is a good video and says the same kind of thing :)

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Oh is that one of the really meta videos?

[-] favrion@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago
[-] balls_expert@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He is literally the poster child for software eng motherfuckers, he's a nerd and goobs around 24/7, an absolute spaghetti dropper

The man could only ever smooth if he was with someone who likes what he embodies (which is a fair bit of the population tbh!)

But on the standardized smooth scale, Imma go on a limb and say that that man has no chance of pulling at the local salsa club

[-] Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

It's probably fake but just because you're seen some videos of a guy doesn't mean you know what he's like off camera.

[-] Eylrid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's 4chan, of course it's made up. That said who knows what Tom would do. We don't know a thing about him outside of what he chooses to show on youtube. There have been enough scandals with celebs who seemed nice to show that we don't know who people really are. Not saying he is an asshole, he could be perfectly nice, just that we don't know.

[-] pm_me_your_trash@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

You might say it's fake and gay?

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

You responded to the wrong comment

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