Tom Scott makes surprising return to YouTube a year after retiring from weekly videos
British YouTuber Tom Scott has returned to his main channel over a year after announcing his retirement from making weekly videos with big plans for the future.
In January 2024, Tom Scott, who had been uploading aYouTubevideo every week for ten years, announced he wasstopping the grindin a reveal that broke fans’ hearts.
He claimed that he wasn’t quitting content creation altogether, though, and over the ensuing year-and-a-half, Scott has been co-hosting podcasts like Lateral and The Technical Difficulties.
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On June 23, 2025, Scott returned in an unexpected video uploaded to his main channel, where he asked fans for help in his next forthcoming projects.
While Scott has always pursued answers to questions everyone’s had at some point in their lives, he now wants to focus on history — particularly, British history. The YouTuber encouraged viewers to send in their suggestions for interesting places and things in the UK that he can make videos about.
Scott also put out an open call for “interesting people” in the area, hoping to connect and interview unique individuals about their lives and work.
He made sure to mention, however, that he’s not sure his upcoming content will even have legs.
“It will probably take a while. Maybe it won’t happen. Maybe I’ll try it and it won’t work. I don’t know, and that is a little bit scary,” he admitted.
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“Setting up something that is deliberately ‘less’ and is also, right now, a long way away from being real and might not even happen, that is a bit scary.”
Scott revealed the working title for his series, ‘Let’s go see England,’ which he plans to debut sometime in 2026 on an unspecified YouTube channel. Hisopen-call videowill be deleted in seven days.
Tom Scott was one of several YouTubers who retired in the last year, which included MatPat, whofamously said goodbyeto being the face of Game Theory after 15 years.
