I think I can give some insight into this. I grew up in the UK in the same sociocultural bubble that Tom did, although a live in another country now. I have also been called skinny and not very manly, and people have asked me once or twice if I'm gay. When I was younger I cared a lot about Following the Rules and being liked by everyone. Ie. typical Nice Guy stuff. I was also always quite tense, especially with my sexuality around girls. Mine and Tom's thing is quite common in the UK and after giving it some thought I think what does it is the authoritarian upbringing. I went through the British school system, and their insistence on uniforms, graceless punishments for normal human mistakes like forgetting your PE kit, and the expectation that you will be a Responsible Young Adult (and not a wild teenager) frightened the cheekiness out of me when I was 7 and made me into what you see there. I'm 20 and it's only started coming back to me in the past couple of years. I have no other childhood trauma so this is what it's got to be.
Depends on where you live I guess. One of my friends at Uni grew up in quite a posh area and went to an all-boys grammar school, but I'm pretty sure mixed-sex is the norm. I mean my first ever friend in primary school was a girl, it's just that all the ones after that were boys and I just stuck with male friends after that. Doesn't help that I started getting crushes on the girls in class when puberty hit so it was even harder to approach them normally
I can't verify if he his gay, but he did run for parliament under the name "Mad Cap'n Tom" in 2010 After he lost a bet about the New Orleans Saints winning the Superbowl.
He even said something on the lines of "This Tom Scott is a character. Based on the real one, but nonetheless." I forget his exact wording, or which video it was in.
Oh yeah, he did say that. I suppose it's natural when there's a side of you that you show to the public and a side that you show to your friends. It's like how everyone acts sightly differently around their parents
I think any successful, level headed host, actor, media personality has a character they play in public. Actually to expand on that most people that are successful and want to keep sane have a public character.
it's always very odd to me watching like, an obscure youtube host or the dude at the zoo MCing a dolphin show. like, you know they jerk off and have bad takes, but here they are putting on a face for 50 people
It's 4chan, of course it's made up. That said who knows what Tom would do. We don't know a thing about him outside of what he chooses to show on youtube. There have been enough scandals with celebs who seemed nice to show that we don't know who people really are. Not saying he is an asshole, he could be perfectly nice, just that we don't know.