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'''Thomas James "Tom" Ridgewell''' (born 27 June 1990), known online as '''TomSka''', is a British filmmaker, [[content creator]], vlogger, comedian, and actor. He is known for writing, directing, producing, and starring in his [[live-action]] [[sketch comedy]] [[YouTube]] videos and animated [[web-series]] such as ''asdfmovie'' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|z|d|ə|f|_|ˈ|m|uː|v|i}} {{respell|az|DƏF|_|MOO|vee}}), ''Crash Zoom'',<ref>{{Cite web|last=Klein|first=Jessica|date=17 August 2014|title=Between Comedies, TomSka Also Educates His YouTube Fans – VideoInk|url=http://www.thevideoink.com/features/comedies-tomska-wants-better-youtube-fans/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603135328/http://www.thevideoink.com/features/comedies-tomska-wants-better-youtube-fans/|archive-date=3 June 2016|access-date=14 September 2020|website=VideoInk, Inc.}}</ref> and ''[[Eddsworld]]'' where he provided the voice of Tom and served as showrunner from 2012 to 2016. {{As of|2022|April}}, his [[YouTube]] channel has over 7.13 million subscribers, and his videos have garnered over 1.9 billion views.<ref>{{Cite web|title=TomSka's YouTube Stats|url=https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/tomska|access-date=10 June 2021|website=[[Social Blade]]}}</ref>
'''Thomas James "Tom" Ridgewell''' (born 27 June 1990), known online as '''TomSka''', is a British filmmaker, [[content creator]], vlogger, comedian, and actor. He is known for writing, directing, producing, and starring in his [[live-action]] [[sketch comedy]] [[YouTube]] videos and animated [[web-series]] such as ''asdfmovie'' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|z|d|ə|f|_|ˈ|m|uː|v|i}} {{respell|az|DƏF|_|MOO|vee}}), ''Crash Zoom'',<ref>{{Cite web|last=Klein|first=Jessica|date=17 August 2014|title=Between Comedies, TomSka Also Educates His YouTube Fans – VideoInk|url=http://www.thevideoink.com/features/comedies-tomska-wants-better-youtube-fans/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603135328/http://www.thevideoink.com/features/comedies-tomska-wants-better-youtube-fans/|archive-date=3 June 2016|access-date=14 September 2020|website=VideoInk, Inc.}}</ref> and ''[[Eddsworld]]'' where he provided the voice of Tom and served as showrunner from 2012 to 2016. {{As of|2022|April}}, his [[YouTube]] channel has over 7.13 million subscribers, and his videos have garnered over 1.9 billion views.<ref>{{Cite web|title=TomSka's YouTube Stats|url=https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/tomska|access-date=10 June 2021|website=[[Social Blade]]}}</ref>


He is also the best YouTuber in the world


== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==

Revision as of 22:28, 27 May 2023

TomSka
Ridgewell in 2016
Personal information
Born
Thomas James Ridgewell

(1990-06-27) 27 June 1990 (age 34)
Essex, England
EducationUniversity of Lincoln
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • content creator
  • vlogger
  • comedian
  • actor
YouTube information
Also known asTomSka
Channels
Years active2002–present
Genres
  • Comedy
  • sketch comedy
  • action
  • black comedy
  • surreal comedy
  • slapstick
  • adult animation
Subscribers7.2 million (main channel)
8.61 million (combined)[b]
Total views2 billion (main channel)
2.22 billion (combined)[a]
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers2010 (TomSka)
1,000,000 subscribers2012 (TomSka)[1]
Last updated: 14 March 2023

Thomas James "Tom" Ridgewell (born 27 June 1990), known online as TomSka, is a British filmmaker, content creator, vlogger, comedian, and actor. He is known for writing, directing, producing, and starring in his live-action sketch comedy YouTube videos and animated web-series such as asdfmovie (/ˈæzdəf ˈmuːvi/ az-DƏF MOO-vee), Crash Zoom,[2] and Eddsworld where he provided the voice of Tom and served as showrunner from 2012 to 2016. As of April 2022, his YouTube channel has over 7.13 million subscribers, and his videos have garnered over 1.9 billion views.[3]


He is also the best YouTuber in the world

Early life and education

Thomas James Ridgewell was born on 27 June 1990 in Essex, England.[4] He was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. As a child, Ridgewell made short films using his parents' video camera.[5] Shortly after YouTube was established, Ridgewell created CakeBomb,[6] a website where he posted his projects, including his animated web series asdfmovie and his friend Edd Gould's Eddsworld. Ridgewell graduated from the University of Lincoln[7] where he studied Media Production, and whilst studying created a series of unofficial advertisements for the university which received millions of views and were also featured on the BBC.[8]

Career

As a professional YouTuber, Ridgewell earns money from revenue from his videos on the website.[9][10] He has been interviewed about this and has had this aspect of his life discussed, especially when the medium of online video was in its infancy.[4] He has appeared as a guest on the BBC's The One Show[11] and created short films for Comedy Central.[12]

In October 2007, Ridgewell created a secondary channel called DarkSquidge (currently known as TomSka & Friends).[13] As of April 2022, the channel has over 1.38 million subscribers and over 191 million views.[14] While his main channel consists of sketch comedy and animations, The "TomSka & Friends" channel shows behind-the-scenes footage of TomSka-related projects and videos, as well as vlogging.[citation needed] Ridgewell also engages in social commentary, covering topics like mental health,[15] sexual health, and body positivity.[16] From April 2016 to February 2018, he uploaded weekly vlogs to the channel in a series named Last Week.[17]

In 2008, Ridgewell released the first episode of asdfmovie,[18] an animated sketch comedy series featuring short clips of minimalist characters in surreal and occasionally darkly humorous situations. The "asdf" part of the name originates from the first four characters of the second row of letters on the "QWERTY" keyboard layout. The song "Beep Beep I'm a Sheep" by Canadian musician LilDeuceDeuce with vocals by Ridgewell and Gabriel Brown,[19] released alongside asdfmovie10, was featured in the dance rhythm game Just Dance 2018.[20] A book based on the asdfmovie series, titled Art is Dead: the asdf book, was written by Ridgewell, illustrated by Matt Ley and published by Little Brown on 22 October 2015.[21] A second book titled Sam Kills Christmas, written by Ridgewell and Eddie Bowley with illustrations by Dorina Herdewijn, was released on 8 November 2018.[22][23]

In 2012, Ridgewell founded the media production company TurboPunch Ltd., located in London. He currently works there alongside co-writer Eddie Bowley and video editor Elliot Gough.[24] Ridgewell also became the producer of Eddsworld after the show's creator, Edd Gould, died of leukaemia.[25] He left the series in 2016, relinquishing the show to animator Matt Hargreaves.[25]

In February 2013, Ridgewell was featured on the cover of Wired UK as part of a feature titled "How YouTube Reinvented the Entertainment Business".[26] In May 2013, he was featured in YouTube's first Comedy Week[27] as a guest host for its Geek Week series in August.[28]

In 2014, Ridgewell, in collaboration with video game developer Pixel Spill Studios, created the game KatataK, a side-scrolling shoot 'em up for iOS and Android devices.[29][30] In September 2014, the BBC announced Ridgewell would appear as a guest presenter on the Dan and Phil Show on BBC Radio 1.[31][32][33]

In 2016, Ridgewell filmed several sketches with the BBC for a potential sketch show on BBC Three.[34]

In May 2018, Ridgewell uploaded "The Muffin Song", a spin-off song of his asdfmovie series, in collaboration with Schmoyoho. As of October 2021, the video has garnered over 200 million views.[35]

In 2019, Ridgewell developed a card game based on asdfmovie in collaboration with Big Potato Games called Muffin Time: The Random Card Game.[36] He raised over £1,000,000 for the game on Kickstarter.[37]

Personal life

Ridgewell's twin sister died prenatally after their mother sustained injuries in a car accident.[38]

He was raised a Jehovah's Witness but no longer practices this faith.[39] Despite this, he has expressed belief in a higher power.[38]

Though not primarily a musician by trade, Ridgewell has played bass guitar in multiple videos, including "Guitar Warfare"[40] and "Mine Turtle" as a featured artist with LilDeuceDeuce.[41]

He endorsed the Labour Party in the 2017 United Kingdom general election[42] and expressed his opposition to both Brexit[43] and the Conservative Party.[44]

Books

  • Art Is Dead: the asdf book (2015, Little Brown Book Group, ISBN 9780751563047)
  • Sam Kills Christmas (2018, Little Brown Book Group, ISBN 9780751563054)
  • Zack Comic (2010-2011, Unknown[45])
  • Asfdbook (2010, Unknown)[46]

Notes

  1. ^ Views, broken down by channel:
    2.01 billion (TomSka)
    213 million (TomSka & Friends)
  2. ^ Subscribers, broken down by channel:
    7.2 million (TomSka)
    1.42 million (TomSka & Friends)

References

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  4. ^ a b Lewis, Tim; Fox, Killian; Michael, Lizzi (6 April 2013). "YouTube UK: 20 of Britain's most popular online video bloggers". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  5. ^ Clarkson, Stephanie (2015). Vlog It!. United Kingdom: Scholastic UK. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-4071-6512-7.
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  7. ^ Cousins, Rachael (27 August 2014). "Former University of Lincoln students to guest present on Radio 1". Lincolnshire Echo. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
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  9. ^ "The Tom Ridgewell show: the 22-year-old making £10,000 a month from his bedroom on YouTube". Evening Standard. 12 March 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  10. ^ Whitworth, Dan (19 April 2011). "YouTube star TomSka 'makes thousands' every month". Newsbeat. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  11. ^ thepod96 (23 November 2011). "TomSka and Bing on The One Show – BBC One". YouTube. The One Show. BBC.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  13. ^ "DarkSquidge – YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
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  15. ^ Griffin, Louise (18 February 2019). "TomSka opens up about the dark side of asdfmovie, repairing relationships, and getting a 'real job'". Metro. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  16. ^ THE SEX TALK, retrieved 7 June 2021
  17. ^ O'Dell, Liam (8 September 2017). "TomSka Announces the End of Last Week". TenEighty. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
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  19. ^ Melnychuk, Mark (7 April 2017). "Regina musician's latest video racking up millions of views on YouTube". Regina Leader-post. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
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  22. ^ Weiss, Geoff (24 September 2018). "U.K. YouTube Vet TomSka Has Written A Kids' Book Called 'Sam Kills Christmas'". Tubefilter. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
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  25. ^ a b Gutelle, Sam (23 March 2016). "TomSka's New Documentary Explains How Eddsworld Survived Its Creator's Death". Tubefilter. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
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  29. ^ "KatataK". KatataK. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  30. ^ Saylor, Jacob (29 December 2014). "KatataK Is Now Out for iOS and Android". Gameranx. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
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  32. ^ Lewis, Tim (6 April 2013). "YouTube superstars: the generation taking on TV – and winning". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
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  39. ^ DarkSquidge (7 October 2015). "The Day My Faith Died". YouTube. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  40. ^ Page, Justin (20 May 2013). "Guitar Warfare, An Explosive Guitar Battle Between Good and Evil". Laughing Squid. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  41. ^ TomSka (22 June 2012). "MINE TURTLE (asdfmovie song)". YouTube. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  42. ^ Ridgewell, Thomas [@thetomska] (2 June 2017). "Over the past few weeks Corbyn has really won me over – I'll definitely be voting Labour next week" (Tweet). Retrieved 14 September 2020 – via Twitter.
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  44. ^ Ridgewell, Thomas [@thetomska] (26 November 2019). "Look. I don't want Brexit. I don't want the Tories in power anymore" (Tweet). Retrieved 14 September 2020 – via Twitter.
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  46. ^ "The TomSka Iceberg Explained #CONTENT". YouTube.
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