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?
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, always intrigued to see what these things are like, I thought why not!
Of course, the first th...
2023-12-08 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 increase the rate at which we put out videos.
Over the past few years, I’ve broadly been on a sche...
2023-12-02 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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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!
What have I been up to this week?
This week, we’ve been making some great progress on the next video. Which I suppose means it’s probably time to tell you what it’s about…
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2023-11-28 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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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!
What have I been up to this week?
It’s been another mixed week over these past seven days.
I ki...
2023-11-21 16:33:31 +0000 UTC
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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 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’d be interested in doing some streaming and offering to lend a bit of a hand in buying some new ki...
2023-11-10 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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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 days.
Alongside being able to submit stories and articles for discussion, there's also the chance...
2023-11-06 15:00:08 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 system. As ever, the last few days before that went out were a little hectic as we tried our best to...
2023-11-03 16:03:31 +0000 UTC
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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:
Some of you may have noticed that this marks the first time in a very, very long time I've release...
2023-10-29 17:40:21 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 the one hand, in unpicking the right-wing media’s obsession with immigration and the crisis in the...
2023-10-27 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 to fit in one of these little reflections.
But, we’re back! And, this week has been pretty ...
2023-10-20 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 conversations about the current state of Patreon and where it might go in the future. As ever, I’...
2023-10-06 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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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 out of Patreon's rise, I thus wanted to try and view the company through a more detached, nuanced lens...
2023-10-01 18:59:41 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 this more work-related section anyway. But, the most exciting part of my current week actually came ...
2023-09-29 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 in hand, I’ve been focusing on the script to the video which will follow it. Which currently has th...
2023-09-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 it really compelling and I think it’s looking great!
When we were first chatting about what k...
2023-09-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 Patreon, its rise and (potential) fall.
The platform on which you’re currently reading this ...
2023-09-08 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 for my wedding a couple of weeks ago, I put a lot of effort into getting nice and ahead with my writi...
2023-09-01 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 you what I’ve been up to with regard to making videos, telling you a bit about how I’ve spent my ...
2023-08-25 14:59:01 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 you will know (from me going on about it in these updates), I’m getting married this weekend. And, a...
2023-08-14 11:24:37 +0000 UTC
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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, the biggest video I've ever made. It's taken a huge amount of work on the part of both myself and my ...
2023-07-31 00:29:09 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 non-obvious reason.
My home office doubles as a writing space and a filming space. On some proje...
2023-07-24 16:03:24 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 stuff going on at home that’s made filing these at the end of each week a bit tough. But, we’re ba...
2023-07-14 13:51:47 +0000 UTC
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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 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 Journalism”, or, the relatively new phenomenon of people who don’t work for “traditional” media or...
2023-06-23 13:37:54 +0000 UTC
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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
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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?
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. I’ve handed many terabytes of footage over to Georgia to edit in the past week or two. This has in...
2023-06-19 16:24:00 +0000 UTC
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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?
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 final draft of the introduction to this minor epic. As I’ve mentioned in previous videos, I’ve b...
2023-06-10 10:15:10 +0000 UTC
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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 start them so this was a great chat!
Enjoy!
Tom
2023-06-06 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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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 and filming and editing is going, I often have little time left to mention anything we’ve been wor...
2023-06-06 12:39:09 +0000 UTC
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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 some very early sections of it filmed!).
This time around, I’m trying something a little bit...
2023-05-26 10:43:57 +0000 UTC
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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
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