Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
This week, I had my first full-on “influencer” evening.
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to go to a Christmas party YouTube was throwing in London.
And, ...
2023-12-08 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
This week I’ve been making progress on the script for January’s video!
I don’t think I’ve mentioned yet that we’re currently in a process of trying to increa...
2023-12-02 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
Another belated Friday Update this week as life has continued to be incredibly busy! But we'll catch up, I promise!
This week, we’ve been making some great progress...
2023-11-28 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
First and foremost, a quick apology for the delayed posting of this! I was at my best friend’s wedding last weekend and so, whilst I’d written it, I didn’t get a chance to actually upload it!
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
The past week has seen us embark on a new experiment here at Tom Nicholas Towers (not a real place).
A little while back, someone from Twitch got in touch to ask if I...
2023-11-10 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
An exciting little announcement...
Over the next few months, we're going to be experimenting with a twice-weekly live show over on Twitch.
It's going to primarily be a media review show, in which we take a look (and perhaps take apart!) the news stories, reporting and opinion pieces which have been clogging up timelines, feeds and front pages over the previous few day...
2023-11-06 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
Well, I’m shattered, because this week has been pretty overwhelming!
Last Sunday, we released the latest video about Bibby Stockholm and the crisis in the UK asylum ...
2023-11-03 16:03:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Here's my latest video: Britain's New Prison Ships.
Whether you're based in the UK or elsewhere in the world, my hope is that this will provide a bit of insight into a terrifying development in the UK in which our ailing Conservative government has decided to experiment with placing asylum seekers on austere, dangerous barges.
A couple of behind-the-scenes notes:
<... 2023-10-29 17:40:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
This week we’ve been putting the final touches to our upcoming video: Britain’s New Prison Ships.
It’s been a really interesting project to work on. On ...
2023-10-27 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
Firstly, I need to apologise for missing a week of the Friday Update last Friday. It’s been a veeeeeery busy fortnight here which didn’t leave quite enough time...
2023-10-20 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
As you’ll all now know, my latest video was released last Sunday.
The Rise (and Fall) of Patreon is currently performing really well and has started lots of...
2023-10-06 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all!
Here it is, my latest video: The Rise (and Fall) of Patreon.
A slightly weird one to be posting here on Patreon itself!
In fact, this has been a slightly weird one to make. The unique relationship that many creators (including myself) have with Patreon seems to shield it from even very light criticism. While I think there are many, many positives to come ou...
2023-10-01 18:59:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
So, despite what the italicised explainer above suggests, these posts usually focus on what I’ve been up to for the preceding five days from Monday to Friday. At least in ...
2023-09-29 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
So, my video about the rise (and fall) of Patreon is very nearly done. As I type, Georgia is making some final tweaks to the edit and it’s looking great.
With that i...
2023-09-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
Our next video about Patreon’s present financial troubles is currently making great progress. Georgia’s been working really hard on some really stylish editing to make i...
2023-09-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
This week, we’ve been making incredible progress on the next video.
As I mentioned towards the end of my last Friday Update, the video is going to be about ...
2023-09-08 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
So, I guess it’s time to announce what my next video is going to be about…
This feels a little bit different this time around. See, prior to taking some time off f...
2023-09-01 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
This one’s gonna be slightly different…
As regular readers of the Friday Update will know, I usually break down my update into a few categories: telling y...
2023-08-25 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday(ish) Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
Over the course of the last week, I think I’ve done a bit of every single part of my job.
Firstly, I finished the script for the next video!
As some of yo...
2023-08-14 11:24:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all!
Here it is, Griftonomics: Why Scams are Everywhere Now.
The video is about online passive income grifts. But it's also about our economy more generally and the manner in which contemporary capitalism has become dominated by businesses which make their money through pure rent-seeking.
I hope you find it interesting!
This is, as most of you will know, t...
2023-07-31 00:29:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday(ish) Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
It’s been a week of finishing touches here.
On Tuesday night, I filmed the last couple of pieces of my upcoming video about online grifts. This was a big relief; mostly for a no...
2023-07-24 16:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
First off, apologies for a recent hiatus in the Friday Update, I’ve both been snowed-under with work trying to get the next video filmed and had a bit of extra st...
2023-07-14 13:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
The highlight of this week was taking part in a little bit of research.
A viewer had got in touch as they’re undertaking a PhD which is looking at “Platform Journa...
2023-06-23 13:37:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Here’s the latest episode of Induction!
This time around, I chatted to Leena Norms about the how the “crucial decade” between the ages of 20 and 29 has changed in recent decades.
It’s a slightly more lighthearted chat than some of the others we’ve had recently but hopefully there’s a lot to be gleaned from it!
Enjoy!
Tom
2023-06-21 13:43:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday(ish) Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
This week has been mostly a blaze of writing and re-writing.
We’re making excellent progress on my upcoming video about the cultural ubiquity of online grifts. ...
2023-06-19 16:24:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday(ish) Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
We’ve been picking up the pace massively with work on the next video over the past week.
Things began fairly enthusiastically on Monday when I polished-off the ...
2023-06-10 10:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
The latest episode of my podcast, Induction, has just gone live!
This time round, I'm chatting with Andrew from the brilliant channel Andrewism about the need for utopian thinking even in (or maybe especially in!) dark times.
I've been a big fan of Andrew's videos for sometime and always find they leave me more optimistic about the world than I am when I star...
2023-06-06 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday(ish) Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
What have I been up to this week?
In these little posts, I generally focus on the work I’ve been doing each week in relation to my main channel videos. By the time I’ve updated you all on how writing ...
2023-06-06 12:39:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
What have I been up to this week?
The past seven days have really seen my next video (about YouTube audiences’ recent obsession with grifts) begin to take shape. (As you can see above, I also managed to get ...
2023-05-26 10:43:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Thought you’d all like to know that the latest episode of my podcast Induction is out now.
For this latest instalment, I chatted with Rohin Francis of Medlife Crisis about the impact the internet has had on healthcare and our relationship with it.
Let me know what you think!
Tom
2023-05-25 12:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post