After a decade of weekly videos, Tom Scott largely disappeared from his hugely popular channel in 2024. Now he’s back! And apparently he has a whole series coming, in which he explores England.
To quote a commenter: the internet is healing.
On Version History: how to play your voice like an instrument, with a little help from Chromeo.
It’s called Channel Surfer, and it presents YouTube as an old-school grid of TV channels, which you can flip though to see what’s on. All the simplicity of watching cable in a hotel room; all the videos you actually want to watch. It’s fun on its own, but it feels like magic as soon as you import your own subscriptions to create personalized channels.
One of my favorite things to do on social media is to just imagine the people setting up the camera right before the video starts — because as soon as you remember they set up a camera, the whole viewing experience changes. This fun Ringer story about the rise of YouTube Face (trust me, you know the face) pulls back a lot of that artifice and dives into some of the strange workings of the internet’s biggest video platform.
[The Ringer]