I'll admit I'm a little lost/down, it came out of nowhere!

Not to be a jackass, but I distinctly remember watching a video at the beginning of July about how he would leave in six months, and he even said his last video would go up on January 1st. It looks like the video has since been privated.

What are your thoughts?

I'm going to miss him as long as he's not making YouTube videos, but everyone deserves a break. Still, I selfishly hope he returns soon or at all, but if not then that's good too.

Thanks for the good times, Tom.

Came out of nowhere?

He announced it months ago.

Why do I keep seeing people say it out of no where? He announced it months ago

He did mentioned he's gonna quit half year ago, so it doesn't really a surprise for me. Still, i'm gonna miss his series for a bit.

I mean, I am going to miss the regular videos, but I'm glad he's getting to step away on his own terms. So many youtubers burn out, stop uploading, and then just disappear. Or they turn into a brand that they have to manage instead of creating what they want to. Not many get to fly off into the sunset under a helicopter, so that's nice. Plus, he's not stepping away from creating stuff entirely so there's that.

I respect it. He has been going on for 10 years. It's crazy seeing how much work it is. I hope he finds what make him happy.

it came out of nowhere!

It really didn't. He literally made a video a while back saying he was doing this. And has alluded to it in several of the videos he's made in the past couple of months.

Pretty happy about it honestly. He's been counting down to this for ages in his newsletter, so it's far from a blindside on my end.

I've preferred much of his "second channel" content for a while now anyways, and I suspect we'll see lots of interesting content outside of the boundaries of "things you may not know".

Ultimately his biggest priority is himself, as he mentioned in the video to keep going he need to move to more of a manager role and he isn't keen on that so stepping back is the other option

I look forward to more techdiff stuff and hope he does well in his future endeavours.

I'll miss his regular content, but dude deserves a break. All the best to him and I hope he continues to make content as he feels comfortable in so doing.

I support him in doing what he wants. The videos were great but the man doesn't owe me anything.

Best hope is that he comes back after a rest.

It's a shame to see him go, as his weekly uploads were always interesting things to look at, and have inspired some parts of my bucket list...

Having said that, after 10 years of weekly uploads (about 520 videos) without missing a single one (excluding guest videos), he absolutely deserves a hiatus from this series.

If his passions lie in his other works (ala Technical Difficulties), I say let him pursue those - I'd much rather see Tom work on other content than have him burn out and dissappear from the internet entirely, he's too good for that.

Plus, who knows, maybe he'll come back to do one-off specials or start it up again with less frequent uploads - but either way, that's for Tom to decide, not us.

To me it's also about integrity. Know when to stop and when to take a break. Sometimes it's good to stop while things are good instead of him keep pushing himself to produce untill something bad happens like worse quality. Scandalous YouTube drama arises or what ever else he's in risk of ending up on. I'd rather keep remembering Tom as a really good person and YouTuber withe excellent content than a Tom who lost to the system. Also he might have a comeback with something else, something new and innovative that we couldn't even imagine.

It means that YouTube lost one of the better content creators. He will surely be missed.

Good to see he's putting his own well-being as his top priority and not the "influencer" career as many fall to. He deserves a break.

This is the third post I've seen about this guy but the first to actually state his name. Thanks, still no idea who he is though.

He deserves to rest. I'll miss his videos though.

Dude ABSOLUTELY deserves the hiatus.

Having a weekly schedule with an interesting video for 10 years?! Thats insane!

He has become a legend and deservingly so, I hope he enjoys his break and comes back with some bangers in the future

He's still going to be posting videos, has a running podcast and produces for several other channels. It's just this show that won't be weekly anymore. People are melodramatic. It is the end of an era and it's a significant lower volume of work for him. Definitely a series ending. But it isn't like he died or anything.

Also, like everyone has been pointing out, he announced this in July. He talked about the possibility of ending the series a couple of years ago in a video about work ethics.

Not to undercut how you are feeling about it, but didn't he announce this was going to happen a year ago?

I'm looking forward to new Technical Difficulties stuff!

He's made the Internet a better place, I wish him well and thank him for 10 years of great stuff. And I've just subscribed to his podcast

Tom Scott has been in my life for the best part of 7 years and it didn't hit me how much I would miss him until that montage at the end of his last video, where I was reminded of so much stuff. It really made me smile, laugh and then feel quite emotional because the weight of that chapter ending suddenly hit me.

Sometimes you can only really appreciate something when it's too late. Tom put so much effort into all of his content. Far more than the average YouTuber.

That's not to say he's gone forever, which he clearly stated but I would love to buy him a drink and thank him in person for being in my life and entertaining me for all that time.

Absolutely well deserved.

His videos are always fun to bring up when conversing with someone.

I am surprised he lasted that long tbh. I dont think most people realize how much work it takes to do what he does and that is hard to maintain. I am not surprised he eventually found himself needing to step away from it.

I'm sad, but I didn't want to comment on the video saying that I'm sad, because he deserves to choose what he wants to do. But I'm sad.

I like Tom Scott, I think his videos are interesting and well produced. But I'm glad for the break, I think I've reached saturation on Tom Scott content and am starting to find Tom Scott's Tom Scott mannerisms and speech patterns to be a bit too gratingly Tom Scott. The earnest Tom Scott monologues, Tom Scott's Tom Scott laugh while experiencing something Tom Scott about 3/4 predicted, the Tom Scott pause before delivering that last Tom Scott factoid.

Anyway, I hope he has a nice break and comes back some day soon.

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