History Creator / TomScott

* ColorCodedSpeech: The Tom Scott Plus and Technical Difficulties channels, as well as most of Tom's larger productions since 2019, use BBC-style colour coded subtitles mainly supplied by [[https://caption.plus Caption+]] to make it extremely clear who is talking at any given time.

* {{Corpsing}}: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuNq3Bw9Xs How Weird Is My Audience?]] Tom polled people to give a suitable name to a particularly scruffy-looking owl. At the end of the segment, he rattles off a list of outliers such as ''Clovenhorn, Destroyer of Mars'', ''Baron Von Murderpillow'', and ''Miss Scarlet Blumburton of East London'', without too much trouble. He starts to break with the penultimate name on the list (''[=XxX_The_-Mouse_Killer_69_XxX=]'') and absolutely loses it with the final name: ''Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon''.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The premises for ''Things You Might Not Know'', ''Amazing Places'', and ''Built for Science'' are rather self-explanatory.

* {{Retraux}}: The opening and ending of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6RRNNztN5o How the 90s VHS Look Works]] are produced as a 90s TV programme, complete with aforementioned DeliberateVHSQuality and a ContinuityAnnouncement at the end.

* RuleOfFunny: Tom admits that some of his bodged inventions and ideas were based entirely on "it seemed like a funny idea." This included a social media app where only emoji were usable, and a livestream consisting purely of the livestream's chat being printed and immediately shredded, just because he could.

** Tom uses several examples [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY in his video on misleading VPN adverts]], in order to show how VPN ads advertise themselves by "stretching the truth". For example, Tom mentions "Military Grade encryption" as an often-touted feature VPN's advertise...except that is literally the HTTPS protocol, which has been baked in to every modern browser — a VPN using it is ''expected functionality'', but the ads can't talk about other, potentially illegal or legally dubious uses of a VPN, so they market mundane features as special instead. It's worth saying that since the video released, no VPN company make the above claims anymore, and Tom even mentions [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlQuTRSmzc in a later video]] that it actually changed the industry.

** From a meta perspective, one of Tom's videos discusses entropy, automation, Twitter bots, and other related topics. As an example of the phenomena he discusses, he titled the video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0 "This Video Has [X] Views"]] and wrote a script to update the title to reflect the current view count that he admits will break at some point. Not only is this Tom's most viewed video[[labelnote:*]]his video on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8W-auqg024 sending Garlic Bread into space]] made several years prior was the previous title holder[[/labelnote]] by quite a long way due to the inherent StreisandEffect nature of viewers keeping tabs of the video view count and title (65.9 million views and rising), but the script is ''still working flawlessly'' as of July 2023.

* ''Tom Scott plus'' is a channel dedicated to crossovers, where each video features another person, usually a fellow [=YouTuber=], and them doing something together.

* ''Game On'', ''Lateral'', and ''The Game Garage'', other, smaller game shows hosted by Tom.

* ''Disconnected'', in a social distancing world, Tom brings three video chats to the Broadcast Tower for a quiz show with an elimination twist...

* {{Bookends}}: Lateral starts with Team Terminator (Kat and Helen Arney) against Team Viva la Vida (Simon Clark and Sally Le Page). The grand finale is a rematch between these two.

** Tom uses several examples [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY in his video on misleading VPN adverts]], in order to show how VPN ads advertise themselves by "stretching the truth". For example, Tom mentions "Military Grade encryption" as an often-touted feature VPN's advertise...except that is literally the HTTPS protocol, which has been baked in to every modern browser — a VPN using it is ''expected functionality'', but the ads can't talk about other, potentially illegal or legally dubious uses of a VPN, so they market mundane features as special instead and scaremonger. It's worth saying that since the video released, no VPN company make the above claims anymore, and Tom even mentions [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlQuTRSmzc in a later video]] that it actually changed the industry.

** Tom uses several examples [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY in his video on misleading VPN adverts]], in order to show how VPN ads advertise themselves as "stretching the truth". For example, Tom mentions "Military Grade encryption" as an often-touted feature VPN's advertise...except that is literally the HTTPS protocol, which has been baked in to every modern browser — a VPN using it is ''expected functionality'', but the ads can't talk about other, potentially illegal or legally dubious uses of a VPN, so they market mundane features as special instead and scaremonger. It's worth saying that since the video released, no VPN company make the above claims anymore, and Tom even mentions [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlQuTRSmzc in a later video]] that it actually changed the industry.

** Tom uses several examples [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY in his video on misleading VPN adverts]], in order to show how VPN ads advertise themselves. For example, Tom mentions "Military Grade encryption", which sounds very fancy, but it is quite literally the HTTPS protocol that has been baked in to every modern browser — a VPN using it is expected functionality, not a feature, but the ads can't talk about other uses of a VPN, as that can turn legally dubious, and so they market mundane features as special instead.

** Tom uses several examples [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY in his video on misleading VPN adverts]], in order to show how VPN ads advertise themselves. For example, Tom uses the example of "Military Grade encryption", which sounds very fancy, but it is quite literally the HTTPS protocol that has been baked in to every modern browser — a VPN using it is expected functionality, not a feature, but the ads can't talk about other uses of a VPN, as that can turn legally dubious, and so they market mundane features as special instead.

* AsbestosFreeCereal: Discussed in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJEaMtNN_dM The Hidden Rules of Conversation]]", including a link to the trope-naming Webcomic/{{xkcd}} comic.

Tom Scott is an English Website/{{YouTube}}r known for the ''WebVideo/CitationNeeded'' series created with Creator/TheTechnicalDifficulties. While at uni, he formed the [=TechDiffs=] originally as a radio group consisting of Tom's friends Chris Joel, Gary Brannan, and Matt Gray. Most of their material are [[PanelShow panel games]], where they can show off their one-of-a-kind sense of collective humor. Tom has a degree in linguistics, but also regularly makes videos about computers, engineering, history, and many other topics. He and fellow Youtuber Matt Gray had a series called ''WebVideo/TheParkBench'', on their shared Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUULstZRWS1lDvJBzHnkXA Matt and Tom]], where they talk about experiences and what happened behind the scenes on their videos, on a park bench.

->''I am in [=TVTropes=], and according to the Wikimedia Foundation, it is the second largest English language wiki, with the first, of course, being Wikipedia itself.''

** From a meta perspective, one of Tom's videos discusses entropy, automation, Twitter bots, and other related topics. As an example of the phenomena he discusses, he titled the video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0 "This Video Has [X] Views"]] and wrote a script to update the title to reflect the current view count that he admits will break at some point. Not only is this Tom's second-most viewed video[[labelnote:*]]the first being the time [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8W-auqg024 he sends Garlic Bread into space]] made several years prior[[/labelnote]]by quite a long way due to the inherent StreisandEffect nature of viewers keeping tabs of the video view count and title, but the script is ''still working flawlessly'' as of July 2022.

Tom Scott is an English Website/{{YouTube}}r known for the ''WebVideo/CitationNeeded'' series created with Creator/TheTechnicalDifficulties. While at uni, he formed the [=TechDefs=] originally as a radio group consisting of Tom's friends Chris Joel, Gary Brannan, and Matt Gray. Most of their material are [[PanelShow panel games]], where they can show off their one-of-a-kind sense of collective humor. Tom has a degree in linguistics, but also regularly makes videos about computers, engineering, history, and many other topics. He and fellow Youtuber Matt Gray had a series called ''WebVideo/TheParkBench'', on their shared Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUULstZRWS1lDvJBzHnkXA Matt and Tom]], where they talk about experiences and what happened behind the scenes on their videos, on a park bench.

Tom Scott is an English Website/{{YouTube}}r known for the ''WebVideo/CitationNeeded'' series created with Creator/TheTechnicalDifficulties. While at uni, he formed the [=TechDefs=] originally as a radio group consisting of Tom's friends Chris Joel, Gary Brannan, and Matt Gray. Most of their material are [[PanelShow panel games]], where they can show off their one-of-a-kind sense of collective humor. Tom has a degree in linguistics, but also regularly makes videos about computers, engineering, history, and many other topics. He and fellow youtuber Matt Gray had a series called ''WebVideo/TheParkBench'', on their shared Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUULstZRWS1lDvJBzHnkXA Matt and Tom]], where they talk about experiences and what happened behind the scenes on their videos, on a park bench.