TomSka
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Thomas James Ridgewell June 27, 1990 Essex, England | |||||
| Nationality | British | |||||
| Occupation | Filmmaker, video blogger, actor | |||||
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| Pseudonym | TomSka | |||||
| Channel name | TomSka | |||||
| Years active | 2006–present | |||||
| Genre | Comedy | |||||
| Subscribers | 3.94 million (13 February 2016) | |||||
| Total views | 773.3 million (13 February 2016) | |||||
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Thomas Ridgewell (born 27 June 1990), also known as TomSka,[2] is a British film and video creator, known for Internet creations such as asdfmovie and taking over Eddsworld, as well as regularly releasing vlogs and other specially produced Internet films.[3] As of February 2016, his YouTube channel has over 3.9 million subscribers and his videos have garnered over 773 million views.
Early life and education
As a child, Ridgewell began making short films using his parents' video camera. Not long after YouTube was established, Ridgewell created CakeBomb, a website on which he posted his video creations. , including his friend's Eddsworld, and his first asdfmovie. Ridgewell graduated from the University of Lincoln,[4] and while there created a series of unofficial advertisements for the University which received millions of hits.[5]
He was raised a Jehovah's Witness, but no longer practices his faith.[6] Despite this, he has expressed hope for a higher power.[7]
YouTube career
Ridgewell has managed to earn a living through monetising his YouTube content [8] and has been written about and interviewed within the context of this relatively recent phenomenon.[2][9] He has also appeared as a guest on the BBC's The One Show, and has appeared as a radio and TV guest internationally.[10]
In 2008, Ridgewell released asdfmovie, a sketch comedy starring simply-drawn characters in random, however humorous, situations, often with dark humor. He would later write more installments of the series, his latest being asdfmovie9. On 22 October 2015, he released a comic called Art is Dead (the asdfbook).
In 2012, he took the lead of Eddsworld after the show's original creator and his friend, Edd Gould, died of leukemia.
In 2013, Ridgewell was featured in YouTube's first "Comedy Week"[11]
He was featured on the cover of Wired UK in February 2013 as part of a feature titled "How YouTube Reinvented the Entertainment Business"[12] and was selected by YouTube as a guest host for its Geek Week series in August.
The BBC announced that Ridgewell will be appearing as a guest presenter on the Dan and Phil show from September 2014 on BBC Radio 1.[13][14][15]
Ridgewell spoke at the VidFest UK London Comic Con in 2014.[16]
In 2014, Ridgewell released a new webtoon Crash Zoom. In 2014, Ridgewell, in collaboration with Pixel Spill, released the game KatataK.
Books
- Art is Dead: The ASDF Book (2015, Little Brown Book Group, ISBN 9780751563047)[17]
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL6985xJnfU
- 1 2 "YouTube UK: 20 of Britain's most popular online video bloggers" The Guardian
- ↑ "Between Comedies, TomSka Also Educates His YouTube Fans". Jessica Klein / Aug 17, 2014. VideoInk.
- ↑ "Former University of Lincoln students to guest present on Radio 1" By RCousins_LE August 27, 2014 Lincolnshire Echo.
- ↑ "Appointment to view: The University of Lincoln goes viral". Brand Republic.
- ↑ "The Day My Faith Died" YouTube
- ↑ "7 Facts About TomSka YouTube
- ↑ "The Tom Ridgewell show: the 22-year-old making £10,000 a month from his bedroom on YouTube ". London Evening Standard
- ↑ "YouTube star TomSka 'makes thousands' every month". By Dan Whitworth. BBC Newsbeat
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-hLCjzjOvs, retrieved 2015-09-06 Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "YouTube's Comedy Week shows how much comedy has changed". The Telegraph.
- ↑ "Talent Tube: how Britain's new YouTube superstars built a global fanbase" WIRED
- ↑ "New youth presenters for Radio 1". BBC
- ↑ Lewis, Tim. "YouTube superstars: the generation taking on TV – and winning". The Guardian.
- ↑ "Radio 1 to hire 'YouTube-famous' vloggers to broadcast online ". The Independent.
- ↑ "TenEighty at Vidfest UK MCM ComiCon". TenEighty Magazine.
- ↑ "Art is Dead : The asdf Book". Book Depository.com. Retrieved 12 September 2015.