Tom Simons is 21 years old and, like so many young men of his generation, spent a huge amount of his adolescence online. Unlike most of his peers, however, he did this in full public view. Simons had not yet sat his GCSEs when, in 2018, he began filming himself playing the computer game Minecraft and posting the results on YouTube. These videos had a gonzo, home-brewed quality: they would flit between his avatar, rushing around the game’s bright, three-dimensional, Lego-like landscapes, and Simons’s own pale, delicate face as he shrieked and joked and chatted to the camera.
“At school I wasn’t into football and I was always at the bottom of the top sets,” he says, meaning that he was neither sporty nor academic
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