Tim Pool

Timothy Daniel Pool (born March 9, 1986) is an American journalist, YouTuber, and political commentator.[1] He first became known for live streaming the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.[5][6]

Tim Pool
Pool in 2015
Personal information
BornTimothy Daniel Pool
(1986-03-09) March 9, 1986
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.[1]
OccupationJournalist
Websitetimcast.com
YouTube information
Channels
Years active2011–present
Genre
Subscribers
  • 825 thousand (Tim Pool)
  • 709 thousand (Timcast)
  • 158 thousand (SCNR)
Total views
  • 200.88 million (Tim Pool)[2]
  • 512.83 million (Timcast)[3]
  • 2.78 million (SCNR)[4]
100,000 subscribers
Updated June 28, 2020

Early life

Pool grew up with three siblings in Chicago's South Side in a lower-middle-class family. He left school at age 14.[7][8]

Career

In the context of the Occupy movement, Pool's footage has been aired on NBC and other mainstream networks.[9][10][9][11][12] Pool's use of live streaming video and aerial drones during Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 led to an article in The Guardian querying whether such activities could take the form of counterproductive surveillance.[13] In January 2012, he was physically accosted by a masked assailant.[14][15] Pool's video taken during the protests was instrumental evidence in the acquittal of photographer Alexander Arbuckle, who had been arrested by the NYPD. The video showed that the arresting officer lied under oath, though no charges were filed.[16]

Pool used a live-chat stream to respond to questions from viewers while reporting Occupy Wall Street.[17] Pool has also let his viewers direct him on where to shoot footage.[18] He modified a toy remote-controlled Parrot AR.Drone for aerial surveillance and modified software for live streaming into a system called DroneStream.[9][19][13] Pool was nominated as a Time 100 personality in March 2012.[20] While covering the NoNATO protests at the 2012 Chicago summit, Pool, along with four others, was pulled over by a dozen Chicago police officers in unmarked vehicles. The group was removed from the vehicle at gunpoint, questioned and briefly detained. The reason given by police was that the vehicle the team had been in matched a description. The group was released after 10 minutes.[21]

In 2013, Pool joined Vice Media producing and hosting content as well as developing new methods of reporting.[22] In 2013, he also reported on the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul with Google Glass.[23][22] In April 2013, he received a Shorty Award in the "Best Journalist in Social Media" category.[24] In 2014, he joined Fusion TV as Director of Media innovation and Senior Correspondent.[25][26][27]

In February 2017, Pool traveled to Sweden to investigate right-wing claims of "no-go zones" and problems with refugees in the country. He launched a crowdfunding effort to do so after Donald Trump alluded to crimes related to immigration in Sweden. Infowars writer Paul Joseph Watson offered to pay for travel costs and accommodation for any reporter "to stay in crime-ridden migrant suburbs of Malmö."[28][29] Watson donated $2,000 to Pool's crowdfund to travel to Sweden. While in Sweden, Pool largely disputed that migrant suburbs of Malmö and Stockholm were crime-ridden, saying that Chicago is vastly more violent.[30][28][29] However, Pool alleged that he had to be escorted by police out of Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb, due to purported threats to his safety. Swedish police have disputed Pool's claims, stating, "Our understanding is that he didn't receive an escort. However, he followed the police who left the place."[31] The police stated that, "When Tim Pool took out a camera and started filming a group of young people pulled their hoods up and covered their faces and shouted at him to stop filming. The officers then told Tim Pool that it was not wise to stay there in the middle of the square and keep filming."[31]

Pool is a co-founder of Tagg.ly, a mobile application for watermarking photos and videos in order to allow copyrights to be withheld by users.[32] Tim Pool also co-founded the news company Subverse (Now SCNR.Com), which raised $1 million in 22 hours via regulation crowdfunding in 2019, surpassing the previous record on Wefunder.[33]

Views

Pool's political commentary since the 2016 United States presidential election has been variously described as left-wing[34] and right-wing.[35] He has described himself as a social liberal who supported Bernie Sanders in 2016. According to Politico, Pool's "views on issues including social media bias and immigration often align with conservatives'".[36] According to Al Jazeera, "Pool has amplified claims that conservative media endure persecution and bias at the hands of tech companies."[37]

References
  1. Townsend, Allie (November 15, 2011). "Watch: Occupy Wall Street, Broadcasting Live". newsfeed.time.com. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  2. "Tim Pool Channel Analytics". Social Blade. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  3. "Timcast Channel Analytics". Social Blade. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  4. "SCNR Channel Analytics". Social Blade. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  5. Fields, Jim (February 3, 2012). "The Media Messenger of Zuccotti Park". Time. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
  6. DeGrasse, Martha (November 17, 2011). "Mobile phone streams Occupy Wall Street to the world". TCRWireless. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  7. @Timcast (April 16, 2017). "@tariqnasheed Im a mixed race high school dropout from the southside of Chicago and we probably agree on many issues but you wont even give it a chance" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. S.A., COPESA, Consorcio Periodistico de Chile. "Indignado en Wall St - La Tercera El Semanal - La Tercera Edición Impresa" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on February 27, 2015.
  9. Sean Captain (January 6, 2012). "Threat Level: Livestreaming Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones". Wired. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  10. Martin, Adam (January 5, 2012). "The Very Public Breakup of Occupy Wall Street's Ustream Team". The Atlantic Wire. Archived from the original on June 21, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  11. Coscarelli, Joe (January 5, 2012). "Daily Intel: Occupy Wall Street's Video Stars Are Feuding". New York Magazine. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  12. Sean Captain (November 21, 2011). "Tim Pool And Henry Ferry: The Men Behind Occupy Wall Street's Live Stream". Fast Company. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  13. Sharkey, Noel; Knuckey, Sarah (December 21, 2011). "Occupy Wall Street's 'occucopter' – who's watching whom?". London: The Guardian. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  14. Devereaux, Ryan (February 3, 2012). "Occupy Wall Street: 'There's a militant animosity bred by direct action'". The Guardian. London.
  15. "Anarchists Think Photographers And Reporters Are The "Fu*king Enemy"". Archived from the original on May 12, 2012.
  16. Paul Levinson (2012). New New Media, 2nd edition. Pearson. p. 182.
  17. "Occupy PressThink: Tim Pool". Pressthink. November 20, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  18. Joanna (November 15, 2011). "Watch: Occupy Wall Street, Broadcasting Live". Ustream.tv. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  19. The Big Picture RT (January 4, 2012). "Is OWS now fighting back w/Drones?" – via YouTube.
  20. "The 2012 Time 100 Poll". Time. March 29, 2012.
  21. "Independent Journalists Detained at Gunpoint".
  22. Dredge, Stuart (July 30, 2013). "How Vice's Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests" – via The Guardian.
  23. Martin, Adam (December 7, 2011). "Occupy Wall Street Has a Drone: The Occucopter". The Atlantic Wire. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  24. Ngak, Chenda (April 9, 2013). "Shorty Awards 2013 honors Michelle Obama, Jimmy Kimmel". CBS News.
  25. Steel, Emily (September 7, 2014). "Fusion Set to Name Director of Media Innovation" – via NYTimes.com.
  26. "Fusion Website".
  27. "Fusion Brings On Tim Pool - Cision". September 9, 2014.
  28. Bowden, George (February 21, 2017). "Paul Joseph Watson Comes Good On Twitter Offer To 'Investigate Malmo, Sweden, Crimes'". HuffPost UK. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  29. "The man sent to 'crime-ridden' Sweden by a right-wing journalist has reported his findings". indy100. February 28, 2017.
  30. "Tim Pool har lämnat Sverige". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). March 15, 2017. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  31. "Police dispute US journalist's claim he was escorted out of Rinkeby". thelocal.se. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  32. Burgett, Gannon (May 6, 2014). "Tagg.ly Makes For Simple Watermarking of Photos on iOS". PetaPixel. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  33. Alois, J. D. (October 9, 2019). "Crowdfunding on Wefunder, SubverseNews Tops $1 Million in 22 Hours". Crowdfund Insider. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  34. Uberti, David (July 26, 2019). "Tulsi Gabbard's $50M Google Lawsuit Takes a Page from the Far-Right Playbook". Vice. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  35. "Trump Invites Fringe Social Media Company Popular With Nazis to the White House". Vice. July 10, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  36. Overly, Steven. "Social media gadflies gather for airing of grievances with Trump". POLITICO. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  37. "Critics slam Trump 'social media summit' over far-right invitees". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
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