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  • Barges into Youtube

  • Uploads interesting videos weekly for a decade

  • Refuses to elaborate further

  • Heads off into the sunset

Image of Tom Scott flying under a helicopter in a harness


    • Technus@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      I was thinking about this earlier. I’m not sure the OBE would consider his achievements to be noteworthy. If you look at other notable recipients, they all had careers spanning many decades, and the ones in entertainment all have backgrounds in more “classy” vocations (theater, film, music). I’m not sure they’d consider “some guy posting videos on the Internet” (from their perspective) to be of sufficient pedigree. That, and occasionally poking fun at the government and royalty probably hasn’t put him very high on the list.

      However, i think that even if he was offered knighthood, he’d probably decline it, either because he thinks he doesn’t deserve it or because he would be too nervous or embarrassed to accept it.