Tom Nicholas

    

Tom Nicholas
YouTuber Information
Profile	Tom Nicholas
Style	Educational
Date joined	January 25, 2016
Twitter / X	@Tom_Nicholas
Instagram and Threads	@tomnicholaswtf
Other media	Website Patreon
Videos	81+
Schedule	Monthly
Status	Active
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Personal information
Full name	Dr. Tom Nicholas
Nationality	English
Location	Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
Pronouns	he/him
Channel trailer
COUNTRIES- A Brief History of the Nation-State
Most viewed video
The Fake Futurism of Elon Musk
First video
How to Read, Take Notes On and Understand Journal Articles - Essay Tips

Tom Nicholas Live
YouTuber Information
Profile	Tom Nicholas Live
Style	Livestreams
Date joined	March 30, 2020
Videos	30+
Schedule	Weekly
Status	Active
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Channel trailer
🔴 YouTube Propaganda Watch! - Tom Nicholas Live
Most viewed video
Right-Wing Propaganda FOR KIDS!? 🧒
First video
Slavoj Žižek, the MCU, Elon Musk and the Climate Emergency - Tom Nicholas Live

Dr. Tom Nicholas (born March 1, 1993 (1993-03-01))^{[citation needed]} is an English^{[citation needed]} YouTuber who makes videos about politics and culture.

Personal life

Tom has a PhD in theatre from the University of Exeter. His thesis was on class and regionality in contemporary UK playwriting. He has always been interested in politics, and has been involved in political campaigning. Tom is named after his great grandfather.

YouTube

Tom’s first videos were PhD vlogs.

What the Theory?

This series aims to provide engaging introductions to key theories and concepts in cultural studies and the wider humanities.

Video essays

This series broadly comments on the modern world. The first episode, Postdramatic Theatre and Postmodern Theatre: WTF? An introduction to Hans Theis Lehmann was uploaded on May 23, 2017.

Tom Nicholas Live

This is Tom’s channel for storing archives of his livestreams. As with his main channel, on his livestreams, he talks about a mixture of politics, culture and theory.

Johnny Harris

On March 12, 2021, Tom uploaded Johnny Harris: A Story of YouTube Propaganda, a response to Johnny Harris’ How China Became So Powerful, Tom described this video as “frankly alarming,” especially because of “the behind-the-scenes reasons,” why it was made. In his video, Harris discussed “stakeholder capitalism,” which involves corporations considering their impact on people and the environment. At the end of his video, Harris announced that he partnered with the World Economic Forum, who pioneered stakeholder capitalism.

Harris watched Tom’s video, and commented that it raised “useful points about ethics and journalism in a YouTube context.” He argued that he may disagree with Tom about “where the ethical line is in journalism.” Harris also stated that the video was the product of him having read a pre order copy of Stakeholder Capitalism, (a book by Peter Vanham and Klaus Schwab, the founder of the WEF) and pitching the WEF on sponsoring a video. Harris stated that the WEF “didn’t have any creative or editorial influence,” over his video.

Tom replied asking Harris how he obtained an advance copy of Stakeholder Capitalism, saying that it seemed “unlikely [the WEF were] sending out advance copies of books to YouTubers.” He pointed out that an amended version of the video script appeared on the WEF website, and that it features Harris and Peter Vanham as authors. Tom stated that it might “seem convenient” that he happened to approach the WEF asking if they wanted to sponsor a video at just the right time for it to launch alongside the Davos Agenda PR campaign, a campaign where the WEF had specifically been looking to expand its reach on YouTube. After Harris confirmed that the WEF paid for his video, Tom asked why Harris did not use the “Contains Paid Promotion” banner required by YouTube’s terms of service and many countries.

Subscriber milestones

• 100,000 subscribers: September 19, 2020
• 150,000 subscribers: February 19, 2020
• 200,000 subscribers: May 7, 2021
• 250,000 subscribers: October 22, 2021