Jay Foreman, the Map Men guy is actually an extensive collaborator with Tom Scott. I seem to remember Tom Scott did some video titles for him.

Also interesting is that Jay's brother is Beardyman the beat boxer that was a YouTube sensation some years ago with his cooking show!

https://youtu.be/K7NIxKseRus

Yes, I'm sure that's a factor too. Also, one of my first reactions was, unless you have an explicitly comedy kind of channel, maybe somehow audiences don't seem to reward British-style quirky humor that Map Men is full of. I love it, but maybe it causes people to feel it's not "professional" or professor-ly enough? Tom Scott definitely doesn't do humor, at most only wry ironic suggestions. The Map Men sponsorship endings themselves have been hilarious (Surfshark, NordVPN, Audible, etc).

> Tom Scott definitely doesn't do humor, at most only wry ironic suggestions

Tom absolutely does humour, but its the dry British variety as opposed to the quirky British variety.