History YMMV / TomScott

* In ''"The Fetch-Execute Cycle: What's Your Computer Actually Doing?"'', Tom erroneously says that you can compile programs between PC's and Mac's, when he actually meant "Phone's and Mac's". While this was wrong, [[https://youtu.be/lIbfMjZ0ME4?&t=480 and even listed a correction for it]], he mentions in the correction that this might actually be true now due to Apple Silicon (the CPU's used in [=iPhones=] and Mac's being ARM-based).

** ''The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century'', essentially a new take on the paperclip maximizer AI scenario. Presented as a video from [[BadFuture a future]] (not ''the'' future, just ''a'' future) in which an [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] called Earworm has erased basically all modern human culture and stopped all research on other [=AI=] to prevent the only thing that could potentially rival it from being created. And don't expect any [[LaResistance resistance]] against it, as it used NanoTechnology to [[{{Brainwashed}} rewrite human minds to find this totally normal]]. It was already rewriting them to remove all their memory of modern culture, after all. It's so confident in this brainwashing that this video was created by it: it's perfectly okay with letting humanity know about it because it knows they still won't do anything about it. And why did it do all this? Was it created to take over the world, or was it some military AI that went rogue? Nope. It was just an experiment for an automated system to detect and delete copyrighted videos on a video sharing website ([[{{Expy}} which is definitely not]] Website/YouTube) which was left unattended over a Christmas break and in that time it became vastly more intelligent than they thought possible and decided that "our system" meant the entire world rather than simply their website. Were it not for the fortunate wording of its specific instructions stating that it should minimize disruption, it's likely it would have simply wiped out humanity entirely rather than bother to ensure their minds still function and civilization doesn't collapse.

** Tom violently choking on a vape. [[labelnote: Explanation]]Many video edits were made when Tom accidentally inhaled vape smoke and spluttered for a good ten seconds. For example, editing him to fade out of the picture, or autotuning the sounds he makes.[[/labelnote]]

* GodNeverSaidThat: In his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY video on misleading VPN adverts]], Tom runs down and debunks the claims done by various VPN companies, which are often made to scare people into using their services, with claims like saying their data is insecure and susceptible to hackers. What some audience members took away from the video however, is that all VPN's are bad, not worth using, or are a scam, which is ''not'' what Tom had said. Tom laments [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlQuTRSmzc in a follow-up video]] that the video was made to inform people of the claims, not to say that they had no use or were bad; Tom even listed a few examples (a person questioning their faith in a fundamentalist college, torrenting illegal shows and movies, and ordering a hit on someone; or "gay pirate assassins" as he puts it), it's just that what people often use a VPN for, and what VPN ads are actually allowed to advertise ([[AsbestosFreeCereal Stuff like encryption, which isn't actually unique to VPN's]]) can often be very different and misleading to those not in the know, and that's what Tom took issue with. They also mention that his video actually did change the industry; no VPN company makes the claims he initially highlighted anymore.