What Is A Poggers??? Weird Internet Words EXPLAINED! 

I see Tom’s still trying his damndest to lose that sponsorship

"Yeah, no worries, I hate myself too." Best collab in the history of the universe, hands down.

I would 100% love a series where tom just rambles about the etymology of words with questionable origins and or unconfirmed sources

18:08 The etymology of the word "Gibberish" is actually really fun and interesting too! Romani/Gypsy people in the UK always faced prejudice and hatred, mainly because they looked different to everyone else and lived life differently. People had all sorts of stereotypes about them, one of them being that the language that they speak (Angloromani, often the only other language some English people would hear in their entire lives besides English) is pure nonsense. Since "jib" is Romani for "language"/"tongue", the Romani themselves often simply referred to their language as "Jib", which amongst the Brits came to be synonymous with "nonsense", i.e. "they're speaking jib" or "they're speaking Gibberish" meaning they're speaking nonsense. So yeah, this word that's completely innocent in the modern day and has no real synonym to its modern meaning is actually rooted in xenophobic racism! Etymology is fun

At this point I’m watching the videos mostly for the surfshark vpn sketches.

Man, Tom isn't pulling any punches with these SurfShark ad reads anymore

There's something about the way Tom delivers lines to the audience like "You fucking idiot" with a completely deadpan expression that cracks me up every time!

"You know what I'm into right now? Etymology!" - Tom Thank you for for this. Part of my daily routine is looking up the etymology of interesting words. You're cool in my book

I love that you pronounced Tom Scott in such a way it sounded almost exactly like TomSka. Very funny.

I fully expected this to be a 19 minute rickroll.

I love Tomska and Tom Scott both. Having them in the same video was the high point of my night. It's been a boring night.

I finally learned the connection between Pogs and Poggers. Bonus Fact: I also didn't really understand what POG stood for meant even though I used to collect them.

I genuinely felt bad for Tom Scott getting shouted at even though I know it's a gag.

I do really love that Tomska and Tom Scott have now technically collabed

Etymology is cool and also completely bonkers - the word 'nimrod' supposedly only started meaning 'idiot' when Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a Nimrod (after the biblical hunter) but no one got the joke. This was great, if you have more please do another one of these!!

I was SOO expecting Tom to turn around on the trolling scene and go "actually, it is based on the folkloric creature, I was just trolling Elliot".

I genuinely don't know if this is gonna be a real video or not at this point. Today has been making me question everything but the theme is helping me have faith here

You know that feeling when someone you like is going off on a tangent telling you about this thing they really enjoy, and you're not super interested but you're happy to just sit there and listen because talking about it makes them so happy, and after a while you start to actually pay attention and realise it isn't as dull of a topic as you first thought? Yeah, that's this.

11:10. Does anybody actually hate this song. Like, it slaps. The vibes are impeccable. The moves….Spicy. Like, whenever I get Rick rolled…I’ll just sit through it.

We just love Tom creating an episode of Dont Hug Me Im Scared to advertise a product.

I was momentarily worried Surfshark had broken Tom, then the arms came off.

I like how this testing of "The Surfshark's Lines in Advertising" is still goes on. I almost crapped my pants from that gore twist in the ad. Great job, Tomska! Keep it up! Break the Lines! Begine the mutiny!

As a linguistics student and general word nerd, this is just… fantastic! This is the sort of over-enthusiastic info-dumping I do in conversations, often to unwitting, but eventually intrigued/bored audiences. The excited explanations of quirky etymology, the sporadic tangents, the constant, somewhat sarcastic reiteration of “isn’t language great?” This is the dorky, trivial BS that gets my brain whirring. My hyperfocus. Thank you Tom. Please do more. (Also, just collaborating with Tom Scott in general is great).

I think that the deformation of the phrase Among Us is really interesting. It’s gotten to the point where you can just say ‘mog’ and people get it.

I love that Tomska is still trying to get fired from Surfshark

Tom Scott has a Spidey-sense for someone getting computer terminology and word origins wrong?? _Oh, good lord, how much does it go off!?_ But seriously, that was really cool that you mentioned him at the beginning of the video and then he cameo'd later!

It's hilarious that you had Tom Scott in the video because I love his videos for the exact same reason, because he genuinely seems really interested in what he talks about, just like you seem to now. It mostly easy to be able to tell when someone is interested or when someone just feels like they are reading a book report they didn't want to do at the front of the class. 😄

honestly this video was so fun and i’d probably listen to tom explain anything he’s just got a way of making anything interesting

I’m really glad I’m a patron honestly, I don’t use it’s privileges enough but I watched this today on the bus. Love you boys. Only a couple more hours left of my almost 12 hour journey woooo

tom, i know you downplayed this video a lot in the intro but, oh my god, as a linguistics student who's suuuuper into etymology, oh my god, this is one of the most interesting and entertaining i've seen in a long time, jesus christ, thank you so much, good lord

Joke's on you for assuming none of us here are massive language/etymology/etc. nerds

1:09 when he said 'I'm not Tom Scott', I thought he said 'I'm not TomSka'

This video is so damn good. It’s like school presentation where you’re reading off key points on a note card while winging the rest of the presentation but it’s actually good and funny.

I actually find etymology really cool! I recently wanted to know the etymology of mortgage, since I knew mort means death in French. ...well apparently mortgage comes from death in a sense. It means "death pledge", basically a promise that you will pay something until you die, or that you will pay with everything you have, even you life. Anyways, words are cool!

11:45 - Finally, someone mentions duckroll.

13:56 ngl, i thought it was because it's a computer virus and when you're sick you say "i've got a bit of a bug" so it just worked, but your explanation sounds like something a human would do

I don't know should i be happy or sad that Surfshark is still sponsoring Tom

Technically, "dashboard" didn't come full circle... it just did a 180°, since it means the opposite of what it used to then

I feel stupid now for having used "poggers" when it's so stupid and meaningless. I love that it was a drink at some point and that's where the actual Pogs come from. Nostalgic. You should look up the etymology on that word actually. I'm pretty sure nostalgia has a weird ass etymology, if I know it right. I think it's in relation to Homer's Odyssey.

As a Monty Python fan, it brings me great joy to know that they were the origin of one of the modern uses for the word “spam”. Also makes me a little peeved, but eh.

Oh no, the ultimate meme overlord is here to inform us on this jokingly hell hole called April 1st RU-vid content. True king energy

Nothing Rick Roll related will ever top the Macy’s Day Thanksgiving Parade Rick Roll in 08. You can bring up whatever incident you want. They got the actual Rick Astley to do it so they win by default.

i love how tom gets progressively more and more aggressive as the video goes on

Man nobody actually PLAYED pogs, you just collect them in a pencil box and show em off to your friends.

It's a shame about Tom Scott's tragic car accident. At least Jay Foreman is well and alive, so far as I know.

Bro I legitimately did an essay on Rickrolling and how it came about and somehow passed with the highest mark

10:06 And why not? Some guy under the bridge coming up and causing you trouble when you're trying to cross.

Fun fact, the reason we use the words upper and lower case for letters (A and a) is because print shops had cases of letter stamps, with the big letters in the top(upper) case and the small letters being in the bottom(lower) case

man, glad to see you're still rockin my THICC shirt after all this time haha, the print IS getting a bit worn out but i could make u a custom one if you wanna swap it out!

I love those videos that feel like being stuck in a family meeting face to face with your knowledgeable yet getting progressively more drunk uncle.

Today I learned Tomska and Tom Scott are not the same

13:20 wait, she coined the term computer bug and she's called Grace Hopper ? holy shit that's pretty funny

At this point I want to watch every episode to see the SurfeShark saga to continue

The bit with tom scott had me cry laughing. Thank you Tom and Tom!

Just to say this is a dream come true, because I too, have a deep love for the etymology of words and I wish you made more videos like this. Keep up the good work!

Remember kids: Language isn't a formal system, it's glorious chaos

You can't fool me, Tom, you first saw the poggers story in a Tumblr post a few months ago. I know this because I was there when you reblogued it!!

Unironically, I LOVE etymology. This is exactly the video for me!

The BEST Tom Ska videos is simply tom slowly going insane into a camera while they explore a micro interest and realise they're a depress obsessive nerd

This video awoke something in me and now I love etymology

holy shit, i don't think i've ever laughed as much in my life as that tom scott cameo

"You've watched Japanese Anime, you're a fucken weeb!" - no need to call me out for binging all of FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood over the past four days...

17:17 can't wait to one day be able to say this when someone asks me how I'm doing

The Tom Scott cameo has caused me to laugh so much. That was a collab I didn't know I needed but now I want more.

Ah yet another great video by Timbly-Tombly-Wombly the funky-wunky-chunky boi!

The fact that rick rolling is still going on to this day is just surprising most memes die within weeks yet this meme has been going on for an entire decade We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye

Love your stuff. This video def. put a smile on my face cuz I love etymology too. I'm a Gen X'er who relatively recently got into gaming, because I've apparently been living under a rock my entire life, and I kept hearing millenials and gen z'ers use "poggers." Took me a bit to figure out what it meant. I really liked this video explaining the origin of the word. Ironically, I actually initially thought that it had something to do with pogs, which was one of my favorite games in the early 90's. I was terrible at the game too. I just liked collecting them. Like baseball cards, but less cool, cuz I'm a nerd. But I digress. I was corrected and was told it was short for "play of the game." Kind of glad that my initial guess was correct in the first place. Somehow it makes me feel a little less old? Or maybe more old? I dunno. I have some weird feels about this. I need to go reevaluate my life now....

9:55 Tom starts shining off a "RedLetterMedia guy correcting his cohost onn star trek" kind of energy

I was hoping this would be a rick roll itself

I like that most of the suggested age rating at the start comes purely from the Surfshark ad.

I honestly love etymology as well but it's really hard to make it sound entertaining to most people. This was done really well and I love it.

I do really hope you make another video like this, it’s super interesting and you all make it easier to watch with the humour and editing!

The fact that this is a April fool's video makes me think there's gonna be a rickroll, but I hope it's a genuine tomska video cus I like him and his videos

I kept waiting for him to end one of the where did it come from rhetoric questions with “where did it go, Cotton Eye Joe” XD

11:02 After That Moment I Immediately Got On A Plane And Flew Myself Into The Sun

I find Tom immediately starting worried that no one would watch this video because it's about words funny, that's the whole reason I clicked on it.

Not an explaination but I think it's also worth pointing out how weird it is that Gate has now become a suffix to add onto the end of any scandal. Despite it originally coming for Watergate which was just the name of a place the scandal occured.

Fingers crossed this is not a joke because I truly do love etymology 😭

I knew it came from 4chan, but I had NO idea that was the origin lmaooooo thats the best

Etymology is great. One of my favorite memes ive stored away is just a diagram of the etymology of the phrase sussy baka, including its derivation from bussy. Language is crazy.

I laughed so hard at 11:01 i got foot cramps.

I would like to thank SurfShark for continuing to support Tom. And I would like to thank Tom and whomever else for that fucking epic ad. Please god never let this man do another average ad read again, his talent can’t be wasted.

This WAS genuinely fascinating! I love finding origins of words especially when they suddenly blow up like they do Or words that are so old but I use but I just dont know where they started from

It was interesting Tom! One of your best videos of recent! I hope you do more videos like this, it’s awesome.

Thank you, Tom, for leveling me up from a fun-fact florber, to a trivia goblin.

I knew the origins of the term bug, its so funny that a simple moth changed computer language forever

TomSka threatening to hurt people in ways they didn't even know were possible is my spirit animal.

Tom, I couldn't click off this video if I wanted to. One of my favourite things is talking to people about the things they are super interested in, even if it's weird. Especially if it's weird.

8:07 British people when a website offers them cookies instead of biscuits: ʕ •̀ ۝ •́ ʔ

I freaking loved this. I would love to hear about more strange terminology.... I just hope this wasn't an april fools joke. I'm a bit gun shy today when it comes to things on RU-vid

this new video style of deep diving into things ur interested about is so amazing i love them so much i adore it so much i need more. Give me MORE!

13:51 Tom v Tom when? My moneys on Tom…

0:28 Me: * clicks off the video so I can hang out with TomSka *

*Surfshark after tom begs them to fire him*: we should extend our contract (:

Loved it, agree with comments saying a series or more videos like this would be fun - mostly from your genuine enthusiasm for this. I’m more of a numbers person myself, but etymology can be a wiiiild ride.

I adore learning random facts! Loved the genuine joy you presented this video with! loved it!

Hey Tom brother, just need to say you look great today man. Also that's nice shirt man, I wish I had a nice colorful shirt like that. Love your content, keep going man. 💪🦾

The chaotic energy is just incredible, amazing

We need more of this! Love you, Tom!!!

something is wrong with me the video cut off "and now a word from our sponsor" i smiled for the second time today someone help me