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{{short description|YouTuber, journalist, and political commentator}} {{Short description|American right-wing political commentator (born 1986)}}
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| caption = Pool in 2015 | caption = Pool in 2023
| birth_name = Timothy Daniel Pool | birth_name = Timothy Daniel Pool
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1986|3|9}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1986|3|9}}
| birth_place = ], Illinois, U.S.
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| years_active = 2011–present | years_active = 2011–present
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* 504 million (Tim Pool)
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'''Timothy Daniel Pool''' (born March 9, 1986) is an American ],<ref>{{cite news |title=Journalist pulls out of Milwaukee over escalating racial tensions|author=Rebecca Savransky |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/tim-pool-vice-reporter-white-black-unsafe-racial-tensions-milwaukee-police-protest |work=The Hill |date=August 15, 2016 |access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Prominent digital journalist pulls out of Milwaukee: 'For those who are perceivably white, it is just not safe to be here'|author=Michelle Mark |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/reporter-tim-pool-pulls-out-of-milwaukee-because-of-racial-tensions-2016-8 |publisher=Business Insider |date=August 15, 2016 |access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Live-Streamers Who Are Challenging Traditional Journalism|author=Andrew Marantz |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/the-live-streamers-who-are-challenging-traditional-journalism |work=The Hill |date=December 11, 2017 |access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref> YouTuber, and political commentator.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> He first became known for ] the ] protests in 2011.<ref name="poty">{{cite news|title=The Media Messenger of Zuccotti Park|author=Fields, Jim|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duw_D3YjS3s |work=]|date=February 3, 2012|access-date=July 31, 2019}}</ref><ref name="rcr">{{cite news|title=Mobile phone streams Occupy Wall Street to the world|author=DeGrasse, Martha|url=http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20111117/devices/mobile-phone-streams-occupy-wall-street-to-the-world/ |publisher=TCRWireless|date=November 17, 2011|access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref> Pool joined ] and ] in 2013 and 2014, later moving to independent work on YouTube and other platforms. '''Timothy Daniel Pool''' (born March 9, 1986) is an American ]<ref name="Collins" /><ref>{{cite journal|first1=Richard A.|last1=Vogt|title=Uncomfortable Echoes: Blackfishing First Nations Trauma During COVID-19|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajph.12907|journal=Australian Journal of Politics & History|date=11 February 2024|volume=70 |issue=4 |pages=585–605 |issn=0004-9522|doi=10.1111/ajph.12907}}</ref> ] and ] host. He first became known for ] the 2011 ] protests.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Media Messenger of Zuccotti Park|author=Fields, Jim|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duw_D3YjS3s |magazine=]|date=February 3, 2012|access-date=July 31, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mobile phone streams Occupy Wall Street to the world|author=DeGrasse, Martha|url=http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20111117/devices/mobile-phone-streams-occupy-wall-street-to-the-world/ |publisher=TCRWireless|date=November 17, 2011|access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref> He joined ] and ] in 2014, later working on YouTube and other platforms.


==Early life== ==Early life==
According to Pool, he grew up in ] in a lower-middle-class family and left school at age 14. He currently resides in Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=Timcast|number=853443270671712257|date=April 16, 2017|title=@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}}{{dead link|date=August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://diario.latercera.com/2011/10/09/01/contenido/la-tercera-el-semanal/34-86315-9-indignado-en-wall-st.shtml|title=Indignado en Wall St - La Tercera El Semanal - La Tercera Edición Impresa|first=COPESA, Consorcio Periodistico de Chile|last=S.A.|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227025220/http://diario.latercera.com/2011/10/09/01/contenido/la-tercera-el-semanal/34-86315-9-indignado-en-wall-st.shtml|archive-date=February 27, 2015}}</ref> Pool was born in ], Illinois, and grew up in a ] family. His father was a firefighter and his mother sold cars.<ref name="Manuel Simián">{{cite web |last=Manuel Simián |first=José |date=2011 |title=Indignado en Wall St |url=http://diario.latercera.com/2011/10/09/01/contenido/la-tercera-el-semanal/34-86315-9-indignado-en-wall-st.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227025220/http://diario.latercera.com/2011/10/09/01/contenido/la-tercera-el-semanal/34-86315-9-indignado-en-wall-st.shtml |archive-date=February 27, 2015 |website=] |language=es}}</ref> His maternal grandmother is Korean.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Silverman |first=Robert |date=2021-08-01 |title=How 'Coward and Phony' Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-coward-and-phony-tim-pool-became-one-of-the-biggest-political-youtubers-on-the-planet |access-date=2024-09-19 |work=The Daily Beast |language=en}}</ref>

Pool attended a ] until completing the fifth grade<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlk_FA8OCro&t=616s |title=GOP Rep Says Vaccine Passport May Be Joe Biden's Mark Of The Beast, Some Believe Its The End Of Days |date=2021-03-30 |last=Pool |first=Tim |type=podcast |language=English |time=10m16s |access-date=2024-01-13 |quote="I went to Catholic school up until I completed fifth grade, I was in Catholic school. Went to sixth grade, a public school."}}</ref> and left school at the age of 14.<ref name="Manuel Simián" /><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HamyKTWlQRQ&t=409s |title="Tim Pool Breaks Down His Fall Out With Vice - PBD Podcast - Ep. 266" |date=2023-05-06 |time=6m49s |access-date=2024-01-15}}</ref>


==Career== ==Career==
===Occupy=== ===Occupy Wall Street===
Pool used a live-chat stream to respond to questions from viewers while reporting ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pressthink.org/2011/11/occupy-pressthink-tim-pool/ |title=Occupy PressThink: Tim Pool |publisher=Pressthink |date=November 20, 2011 |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref> Pool has also let his viewers direct him on where to shoot footage.<ref>{{cite web|author=Joanna |url=http://www.ustream.tv/press/watch-occupy-wall-street-broadcasting-live |title=Watch: Occupy Wall Street, Broadcasting Live |publisher=Ustream.tv |date=November 15, 2011 |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref> He modified a toy remote-controlled ] for ] and modified software for ] into a system called DroneStream.<ref name="wired1" /><ref name="sharkey-knuckery">{{cite news|last1=Sharkey |first1=Noel |last2=Knuckey |first2=Sarah |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/21/occupy-wall-street-occucopter-tim-pool |title=Occupy Wall Street's 'occucopter' – who's watching whom? |newspaper=The Guardian |date=December 21, 2011 |access-date=January 7, 2012 |location=London}}</ref> Pool's use of live streaming video and aerial drones during ] protests in 2011 led to an article in '']'' querying whether such activities could take the form of counterproductive surveillance.<ref name="sharkey-knuckery" /> In January 2012, he was physically accosted by a masked assailant.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/03/occupy-wall-street-animosity-direct-action | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Ryan | last=Devereaux | title=Occupy Wall Street: 'There's a militant animosity bred by direct action' | date=February 3, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Robbins|first=Christopher|date=8 May 2012|work=Gothamist |url=http://gothamist.com/2012/05/08/are_anarchists_acting_like_the_nypd.php|title=Anarchists Think Photographers And Reporters Are The "Fu*king Enemy"|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512161303/http://gothamist.com/2012/05/08/are_anarchists_acting_like_the_nypd.php|archive-date=May 12, 2012}}</ref> After watching a viral video from ], Pool purchased a one-way bus ticket to New York.<ref name="Marantz">{{Cite magazine|last=Marantz|first=Andrew|date=December 4, 2017|title=The Live-Streamers Who Are Challenging Traditional Journalism|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/the-live-streamers-who-are-challenging-traditional-journalism|access-date=April 20, 2021|magazine=]|language=en-us}}</ref> Pool joined the Occupy Wall Street protestors on September 20, 2011, and met Henry Ferry, a former realtor and sales manager, shortly afterwards, and they formed a media company called The Other 99.<ref name="Captain 2011">{{cite web |last=Captain |first=Sean |date=November 21, 2011 |title=Tim Pool And Henry Ferry: The Men Behind Occupy Wall Street's Live Stream |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/1796352/occupy-wall-street-tim-pool-henry-ferry |access-date=January 7, 2012 |work=]}}</ref> Pool also began livestreaming the protests with his cell phone and quickly assumed an on-camera role.<ref name="Marantz" /> Pool used a live-chat stream to respond to questions from viewers while reporting on Occupy Wall Street.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pressthink.org/2011/11/occupy-pressthink-tim-pool/ |title=Occupy PressThink: Tim Pool |publisher=Pressthink |date=November 20, 2011 |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref> Pool also let his viewers direct him on where to shoot footage.<ref>{{cite web |author=Joanna |date=November 15, 2011 |title=Watch: Occupy Wall Street, Broadcasting Live |url=http://www.ustream.tv/press/watch-occupy-wall-street-broadcasting-live |access-date=January 7, 2012 |publisher=]}}</ref> He modified a toy remote-controlled ] for ] and modified software for live streaming into a system called DroneStream.<ref name="Captain 2012" /><ref name="Sharkey">{{cite news |last1=Sharkey |first1=Noel |last2=Knuckey |first2=Sarah |date=December 21, 2011 |title=Occupy Wall Street's 'occucopter' – who's watching whom? |newspaper=] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/21/occupy-wall-street-occucopter-tim-pool |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref> In mid-November 2011, Pool provided non-stop 21 hour coverage of Occupy Wall Street's eviction from ].<ref name="Devereaux">{{Cite web|last=Devereaux|first=Ryan|date=February 3, 2012|title=Occupy Wall Street: 'There's a militant animosity bred by direct action'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/03/occupy-wall-street-animosity-direct-action|access-date=November 17, 2021|website=]|language=en}}</ref> Pool's use of live streaming video and aerial drones during Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 led to an article in '']'' querying whether such activities could take the form of counterproductive surveillance.<ref name="Sharkey" />


In January 2012, he was physically accosted by a masked assailant.<ref name="Devereaux" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Robbins |first=Christopher |date=May 8, 2012 |title=Anarchists Think Photographers And Reporters Are The "Fu*king Enemy" |url=http://gothamist.com/2012/05/08/are_anarchists_acting_like_the_nypd.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512161303/http://gothamist.com/2012/05/08/are_anarchists_acting_like_the_nypd.php |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |work=]}}</ref> Also in January 2012, The Other 99 was disbanded following a feud between Pool and Ferry.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Coscarelli |first=Joe |date=January 5, 2012 |title=Occupy Wall Street's Video Stars Are Feuding |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/01/occupy-wall-streets-video-stars-are-feuding.html |access-date=September 9, 2021 |website=] |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Martin|first=Adam|date=January 5, 2012|title=The Very Public Breakup of Occupy Wall Street's Ustream Team|url=http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/very-public-breakup-occupy-wall-streets-ustream-team/47051/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621081913/http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/very-public-breakup-occupy-wall-streets-ustream-team/47051/|archive-date=June 21, 2013|access-date=September 27, 2021|website=]}}</ref> Pool had also planned on livestreaming ] for a documentary called ''Occumentary'', but it was never filmed.<ref name="Marantz" />
Pool's video taken during the protests was instrumental evidence in the acquittal of photographer Alexander Arbuckle, who had been arrested by the ]. The video showed that the arresting officer lied under oath, though no charges were filed.<ref>{{cite book | title=New New Media, 2nd edition | first=Paul | last=Levinson | author-link=Paul Levinson |publisher=Pearson |year=2012 | page=182}}</ref> While covering the NoNATO protests at the ], Pool and four others were pulled over by a dozen Chicago police officers in unmarked vehicles. The group was removed from the vehicle at gunpoint, questioned, and detained for ten minutes. The reason given by police was that the vehicle the team had been in matched a description.<ref>{{cite web|first=Lisa|last=Parker|url=http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Citizen-Journalists-Detained-at-Gunpoint-by-CPD-152206965.html|title=Independent Journalists Detained at Gunpoint|publisher=NBC Chicago|date=20 May 2020}}</ref>


Pool's video taken during the protests was instrumental evidence in the acquittal of photographer Alexander Arbuckle, who had been arrested by the ]. The video showed that the arresting officer lied under oath, though no charges were filed.<ref>, '']'', Elise Hu, May 16, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2022.</ref> While covering the NoNATO protests at the ], Pool and four others were pulled over by a dozen Chicago police officers in unmarked vehicles. The group was removed from the vehicle at gunpoint, questioned, and detained for ten minutes. The reason given by police was that the team's vehicle matched a description of another vehicle they sought.<ref>{{cite web |last=Parker |first=Lisa |date=May 20, 2020 |title=Independent Journalists Detained at Gunpoint |url=http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Citizen-Journalists-Detained-at-Gunpoint-by-CPD-152206965.html |publisher=]}}</ref>
In the context of the Occupy movement, Pool's footage was aired on ] and other mainstream networks.<ref name="wired1">{{cite news|first=Sean |last=Captain |url=https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/occupy-drones/ |title=Threat Level: Livestreaming Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones |work=Wired |date=January 6, 2012 |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Martin |first=Adam |url=http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/very-public-breakup-occupy-wall-streets-ustream-team/47051/ |title=The Very Public Breakup of Occupy Wall Street's Ustream Team |publisher=The Atlantic Wire |date=January 5, 2012 |access-date=January 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621081913/http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/very-public-breakup-occupy-wall-streets-ustream-team/47051/ |archive-date=June 21, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Coscarelli |first=Joe |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/occupy-wall-streets-video-stars-are-feuding.html |title=Daily Intel: Occupy Wall Street's Video Stars Are Feuding |work=New York |date=January 5, 2012 |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Sean |last=Captain |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/1796352/occupy-wall-street-tim-pool-henry-ferry |title=Tim Pool And Henry Ferry: The Men Behind Occupy Wall Street's Live Stream |work=Fast Company |date=November 21, 2011 |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref> Pool was nominated as a ] personality in March 2012 for his importance to the Occupy movement alongside ].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2107952_2107953_2110184,00.html | work=Time | title=The 2012 Time 100 Poll | date=March 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501052440/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2107952_2107953_2110184,00.html |archive-date=12 November 2020 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>


In the context of the Occupy movement, Pool's footage was aired on ] and other mainstream networks.<ref name="Captain 2011" /><ref name="Captain 2012">{{cite magazine |last=Captain |first=Sean |date=January 6, 2012 |title=Threat Level: Livestreaming Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones |url=https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/occupy-drones/ |magazine=] |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Martin |first=Adam |url=http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/very-public-breakup-occupy-wall-streets-ustream-team/47051/ |title=The Very Public Breakup of Occupy Wall Street's Ustream Team |publisher=The Atlantic Wire |date=January 5, 2012 |access-date=January 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621081913/http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/very-public-breakup-occupy-wall-streets-ustream-team/47051/ |archive-date=June 21, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Coscarelli |first=Joe |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/occupy-wall-streets-video-stars-are-feuding.html |title=Daily Intel: Occupy Wall Street's Video Stars Are Feuding |work=New York |date=January 5, 2012 |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref> According to '']'', Pool "helped demonstrate to activists that livestreaming had potential as an alternative to depending on cable news coverage".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ohlheiser |first1=Abby |title=Is Facebook ready for live video's important role in police accountability? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/07/07/is-facebook-ready-for-live-videos-important-role-in-police-accountability/ |access-date=September 8, 2021 |newspaper=] |date=July 7, 2016}}</ref> He was nominated as a ] personality in March 2012 for his importance to the Occupy movement, alongside ],<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2107952_2107953_2110184,00.html | magazine=Time | title=The 2012 Time 100 Poll | date=March 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501052440/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2107952_2107953_2110184,00.html |archive-date=May 1, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> as '']'' dubbed Pool "the eyes of the movement".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Townsend |first=Allie |date=November 15, 2011 |title=Watch: Occupy Wall Street, Broadcasting Live |url=https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/15/watch-occupy-wall-street-broadcasting-live/ |magazine=] |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref>
===With journalistic outlets===
In 2013, Pool joined Vice Media producing and hosting content and developing new methods of reporting.<ref name="dredge">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/30/google-glass-istanbul-protests-vice|title=How Vice's Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests|first=Stuart|last=Dredge|date=July 30, 2013|work=The Guardian}}</ref> In 2013, he reported on the ] in ] with ].<ref>{{cite web|last=Martin |first=Adam |url=http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/12/occupy-wall-street-has-drone-occucopter/45891/ |title=Occupy Wall Street Has a Drone: The Occucopter |publisher=The Atlantic Wire |date=December 7, 2011 |access-date=January 7, 2012}}</ref><ref name="dredge" /> In April 2013, he received a ] in the "Best Journalist in Social Media" category.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57578611/shorty-awards-2013-honors-michelle-obama-jimmy-kimmel/|title=Shorty Awards 2013 honors Michelle Obama, Jimmy Kimmel|last=Ngak|first=Chenda|date=April 9, 2013|publisher=CBS News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707161507/https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57578611/shorty-awards-2013-honors-michelle-obama-jimmy-kimmel/ |archive-date=11 April 2013 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> From 2013 to 2014, as ] correspondent, Pool covered and live streamed ] in ] that led to collapse of the ] government.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/8gdn5p/live-streaming-the-ukrainian-revolt|title=Live Streaming the Ukrainian Revolt|last=Pool|first=Tim|date=May 6, 2014|website=Vice|access-date=July 31, 2020}}</ref>


In November 2011, Pool told '']'', "I don't consider myself a journalist." "I consider myself an activist 100%" there "to support the movement."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Anderson|first=Doug|date=November 18, 2011|title=Q&A;: Tim Pool on Streaming Occupy Wall Street|url=http://www.onthemedia.org/blogs/on-the-media/2011/nov/18/q-tim-pool-on-streaming-occupy-wall-street/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116065214/http://www.onthemedia.org/blogs/on-the-media/2011/nov/18/q-tim-pool-on-streaming-occupy-wall-street/|archive-date=January 16, 2013|access-date=September 9, 2021|website=]}}</ref> In October 2012, he told '']'' that "I'm not an activist" and described himself as a journalist.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pérez-Lanzac|first=Carmen|date=October 3, 2012|title=The Surround Congress protests, according to Tim|url=https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/10/03/inenglish/1349271592_399533.html|access-date=September 9, 2021|website=]|language=en}}</ref> In 2018, Pool said that "I don't align with Occupy Wall Street and never did".<ref>{{Citation|title=Nobody Watched Michelle Wolf's Show SO Netflix Canceled It|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1rCjUGlOD4|publication-date=August 18, 2018|language=en|access-date=September 9, 2021}}</ref> In 2021, he denounced the Occupy movement as "crooked".<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/live/4PWxIilQEN0?t=1175 |title=Timcast IRL - NO CHARGES For Cops In New BLM Case, Protests Beginning w/Ryan Girdusky |date=2021-05-18 |last=Pool |first=Tim |publisher=Timcast IRL |time=19:35 |access-date=2021-09-09 |via=]}}</ref>
In 2014, he joined ] as Director of Media innovation and Senior Correspondent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/business/media/fusion-expected-to-name-tim-pool-its-director-of-media-innovation.html|title=Fusion Set to Name Director of Media Innovation|first=Emily|last=Steel|date=September 7, 2014|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://fusion.net/author/tim-pool/|title=Tim Pool|publisher=Fusion}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cision.com/us/2014/09/fusion-brings-on-tim-pool/|title=Fusion Brings On Tim Pool|date=September 9, 2014|publisher=Cision}}</ref>

===Vice and Fusion===
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After joining Vice Media, Pool began producing and hosting content and developed new methods of reporting.<ref name="Dredge">{{cite web |last=Dredge |first=Stuart |date=July 30, 2013 |title=How Vice's Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/30/google-glass-istanbul-protests-vice |work=]}}</ref> In 2013, he reported on the ] in ] with ].<ref>{{cite web |last=Martin |first=Adam |url=http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/12/occupy-wall-street-has-drone-occucopter/45891/ |title=Occupy Wall Street Has a Drone: The Occucopter |publisher=The Atlantic Wire |date=December 7, 2011 |access-date=January 7, 2012 |archive-date=December 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208140033/http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/12/occupy-wall-street-has-drone-occucopter/45891/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Dredge" /> In April 2013, Pool received a ] in the "Best Journalist in Social Media" category.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ngak |first=Chenda |date=April 9, 2013 |title=Shorty Awards 2013 honors Michelle Obama, Jimmy Kimmel |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shorty-awards-2013-honors-michelle-obama-jimmy-kimmel/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707161507/https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57578611/shorty-awards-2013-honors-michelle-obama-jimmy-kimmel/ |archive-date=July 7, 2013 |publisher=]}}</ref> From 2013 to 2014, while working for '']'', Pool covered and live streamed ] that led to the collapse of the ] government.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pool|first=Tim|date=May 6, 2014|title=Live Streaming the Ukrainian Revolt|url=https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/8gdn5p/live-streaming-the-ukrainian-revolt|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705051557/https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/8gdn5p/live-streaming-the-ukrainian-revolt|archive-date=July 5, 2019|access-date=July 31, 2020|website=]}}</ref> He also covered the ] and covered protests in Thailand, Turkey, and Egypt.<ref name="Marantz" />

In 2014, he joined ] as Director of Media innovation and Senior Correspondent.<ref>{{cite web |last=Steel |first=Emily |date=September 7, 2014 |title=Fusion Set to Name Director of Media Innovation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/business/media/fusion-expected-to-name-tim-pool-its-director-of-media-innovation.html |work=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tim Pool |url=http://fusion.net/author/tim-pool/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904015000/http://fusion.net/author/tim-pool/ |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |access-date=February 27, 2015 |publisher=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=September 9, 2014 |title=Fusion Brings On Tim Pool |url=http://www.cision.com/us/2014/09/fusion-brings-on-tim-pool/ |publisher=]}}</ref>


===Independent work=== ===Independent work===
As of 2021, Pool operates six YouTube channels, two of which, '']'' and ''Tim Pool'', feature daily political commentary,{{Needs update|date=March 2023|reason=The ''Tim Pool'' channel's function as a daily political commentary show has since been retired and it now serves as the channel for the ''Culture War Podcast'' and clips from said podcast.}} while a third serves as a clip channel for Pool's podcast, ''Timcast IRL.''<ref>{{cite web|work=]|title=YouTuber Tim Pool Sounds Like He's Doing Great Except for Alleged Cat Hostage Thing|author=McKay, Tom|date=March 12, 2021|url=https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/03/youtuber-tim-pool-sounds-like-hes-doing-great-except-for-alleged-cat-hostage-thing/}}</ref><ref name="Marantz" />
In February 2017, Pool traveled to Sweden to investigate claims of "]" and problems with refugees in the country. He launched a crowdfunding effort to do so after US President ] alluded to crimes related to immigration in Sweden. '']'' writer ] offered to pay for travel costs and accommodation for any reporter "to stay in crime-ridden migrant suburbs of ]."<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last1=Bowden|first1=George|title=Paul Joseph Watson Comes Good On Twitter Offer To 'Investigate Malmo, Sweden, Crimes'|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/paul-joseph-watson-sweden-tim-pool_uk_58ac3790e4b0f077b3edc0a1|access-date=March 14, 2018|work=HuffPost|date=February 21, 2017}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://www.indy100.com/article/sweden-trip-crowdfunded-right-wing-journalist-paul-joseph-watson-infowars-donald-trump-latest-7604156|title=The man sent to 'crime-ridden' Sweden by a right-wing journalist has reported his findings|date=February 28, 2017|publisher=indy100}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svt.se/kultur/medier/tim-pool-har-lamnat-sverige|title=Tim Pool har lämnat Sverige|date=March 15, 2017|website=SVT Nyheter|language=sv|access-date=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />


In May 2022, it was estimated that Timcast IRL generated $65,824.86 in non-advertising revenue for YouTube across 100 videos on the Timcast IRL channel from October 2020 to November 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Connor |first=Ciarán |date=May 5, 2022 |title=Cash for Comments: How YouTube's Super Chats Enable the Platform & Creators to Profit from Conspiracies, Misinformation & Calls for Violence |url=https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/cash-for-comments-youtube-creators-profit-from-conspiracies-misinformation-calls-for-violence/ |access-date=June 20, 2022 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
However, Pool alleged that he had to be escorted by police out of ], 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."<ref name="localRinkeby">{{cite web|title=Police dispute US journalist's claim he was escorted out of Rinkeby|url=http://www.thelocal.se/20170301/police-told-me-to-leave-rinkeby-us-journalist-tim-pool|website=The Local|access-date=5 March 2017|date=1 March 2017}}</ref> 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."<ref name="localRinkeby" />


====Journalism and commentary====
In 2014, Pool helped to launch Tagg.ly, a mobile app that watermarks photos. Pool said he was interested in this kind of application due to experiences where others used his photographs without attribution.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://petapixel.com/2014/05/06/tagg-ly-makes-for-simple-watermarking-of-photos-on-ios/|title=Tagg.ly Makes For Simple Watermarking of Photos on iOS|last=Burgett|first=Gannon|date=May 6, 2014|website=PetaPixel|access-date=April 2, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Reid |first1=Alastair |title=Taggly app launches to watermark images and video |url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/vice-journalist-to-launch-taggly-watermark-ugc-app/s2/a555538/ |access-date=30 December 2020 |work=journalism.co.uk |date=29 April 2014}}</ref> In 2019 he co-founded the news company Subverse (Now SCNR), which raised $1 million in 22 hours via regulation crowdfunding in 2019, surpassing the previous record on ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2019/10/152638-crowdfunding-on-wefunder-subversenews-tops-1-million-in-22-hours/|title=Crowdfunding on Wefunder, SubverseNews Tops $1 Million in 22 Hours|last=Alois|first=J. D.|date=October 9, 2019|website=Crowdfund Insider|language=en-US|access-date=October 20, 2019}}</ref>
Pool covered the ]. Pool said he would leave the area and stop reporting on these events, saying he thought it was dangerous due to perceived escalating "racial tensions".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mark |first1=Michelle |date=August 15, 2016 |title=Prominent digital journalist pulls out of Milwaukee: 'For those who are perceivably white, it is just not safe to be here' |work=] |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/reporter-tim-pool-pulls-out-of-milwaukee-because-of-racial-tensions-2016-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Savransky |first1=Rebecca |date=August 15, 2016 |title=Journalist pulls out of Milwaukee over escalating racial tensions |language=en |work=] |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/tim-pool-vice-reporter-white-black-unsafe-racial-tensions-milwaukee-police-protest |access-date=November 13, 2020 |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108130831/http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/tim-pool-vice-reporter-white-black-unsafe-racial-tensions-milwaukee-police-protest |url-status=dead }}</ref>


In February 2017, Pool traveled to Sweden to investigate claims of "]" and problems with refugees in the country. He launched a crowdfunding effort to do so after U.S. president ] alluded to crimes related to immigration in Sweden. '']'' writer ] offered to pay for travel costs and accommodation for any reporter "to stay in crime-ridden migrant suburbs of ]."<ref name="Bowden">{{cite news |last1=Bowden |first1=George |date=February 21, 2017 |title=Paul Joseph Watson Comes Good On Twitter Offer To 'Investigate Malmo, Sweden, Crimes' |work=] |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/paul-joseph-watson-sweden-tim-pool_uk_58ac3790e4b0f077b3edc0a1 |access-date=March 14, 2018}}</ref><ref name="indy100">{{cite web |date=February 28, 2017 |title=The man sent to 'crime-ridden' Sweden by a right-wing journalist has reported his findings |url=https://www.indy100.com/article/sweden-trip-crowdfunded-right-wing-journalist-paul-joseph-watson-infowars-donald-trump-latest-7604156 |publisher=]}}</ref> Watson donated $2,000 to Pool's crowdfund to travel to Sweden.<ref name="Marantz" /> While in Sweden, Pool largely disputed that migrant suburbs of Malmö and Stockholm were crime ridden, saying that Chicago is vastly more violent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svt.se/kultur/medier/tim-pool-har-lamnat-sverige|title=Tim Pool har lämnat Sverige|date=March 15, 2017|website=SVT Nyheter|language=sv|access-date=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Bowden" /><ref name="indy100" /> While filming in ], an "]" in Stockholm, Pool alleged that he had to be escorted by police, 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."<ref name="The Local">{{cite web|title=Police dispute US journalist's claim he was escorted out of Rinkeby|url=http://www.thelocal.se/20170301/police-told-me-to-leave-rinkeby-us-journalist-tim-pool|website=The Local|access-date=March 5, 2017|date=March 1, 2017}}</ref> 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."<ref name="The Local" />
Podcaster ] invited Pool onto his podcast, '']'', following an interview with ] founder ]. The two demonstrated a limited understanding of Twitter, censorship, and abuse during the discussion, says ''Atlantic'' writer Devin Gordon.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gordon |first1=Story by Devin |title=Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/ |access-date=25 December 2020 |work=The Atlantic |date=19 August 2019}}</ref> They criticized the banning of ] from Twitter, arguing that the provocateur had not truly encouraged his fans to harass '']'' actress ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Peters |first1=Justin |title=How Joe Rogan's Hugely Popular Podcast Became an Essential Platform for "Freethinkers" Who Hate the Left |url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/joe-rogans-podcast-is-an-essential-platform-for-freethinkers-who-hate-the-left.html |work=Slate Magazine |date=21 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref> In early 2019, Rogan invited Pool and Dorsey, as well as Twitter chief legal officer ], back on his podcast. Pool described cases where he asserted conservatives were unfairly suspended on Twitter. In particular, Pool brought up the banning of ] and argued that Twitter rules against misgendering transgender users is ideological. Gadde said that Twitter is a free speech platform on which punishments are based on evaluation of consistently-applied harassment guidelines. All participants were criticized by various sides following the discussion.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gilmour |first1=David |title=Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on Joe Rogan's podcast—again |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/jack-dorsey-joe-rogan/ |access-date=25 December 2020 |work=The Daily Dot |date=5 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Scola |first1=Nancy |title=Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here's the Woman Driving the Change. |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/28/twitter-vijaya-gadde-free-speech-policies-technology-social-media-429221 |access-date=25 December 2020 |work=Politico |date=28 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref>


In November 2017, Pool created his second YouTube channel, ''Timcast News''.<ref>{{Citation|title=Welcome to Channel two|date=November 25, 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZScBY9Bv7a4|language=en|access-date=September 27, 2021}}</ref>
In 2019, Pool contributed to the spread of the ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Collins |first1=Ben |last2=Alba |first2=Monica |title=Conspiracy theorists, far-right agitators head to White House with social media in their sights |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/conspiracy-theorists-far-right-agitators-head-white-house-social-media-n1028576 |access-date=5 January 2021 |work=NBC News |date=10 July 2019 |language=en |quote=Tim Pool, a YouTube personality who has pushed the false conspiracy theory that former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich leaked hacked emails to WikiLeaks...}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shephard |first1=Alex |title=Trump Assembles His Gang of Social-Media Deplorables |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/154467/trump-social-media-summit-assembles-gang-deplorables |access-date=5 January 2021 |work=The New Republic |date=11 July 2019 |quote=So did Tim Pool, a YouTube conspiracy theorist who has suggested that Seth Rich, the former DNC staffer whose 2016 murder remains unsolved, was collaborating with Wikileaks on anti–Hillary Clinton releases.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Schreiber |first1=Hope |title=Joy Villa clashes with journalists at social media summit wearing dress President Trump praised |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/joy-villa-clashes-with-journalists-at-social-media-summit-wearing-dress-president-trump-praised-004858000.html |access-date=5 January 2021 |work=Yahoo!Life |date=11 July 2019 |quote=YouTube personality Tim Pool, who helped push the false conspiracy theory that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich leaked hacked emails to WikiLeaks.}}</ref>


In 2019, podcaster ] invited Pool onto his podcast, '']'', following an interview with ] founder ]. The two criticized the banning of ] from Twitter, arguing that the provocateur had not truly encouraged his fans to harass '']'' actress ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Peters |first1=Justin |date=March 21, 2019 |title=How Joe Rogan's Hugely Popular Podcast Became an Essential Platform for "Freethinkers" Who Hate the Left |language=en |work=] |url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/joe-rogans-podcast-is-an-essential-platform-for-freethinkers-who-hate-the-left.html}}</ref> '']'' contributor Devin Gordon criticized Rogan and Pool, stating that both men demonstrated a limited understanding of Twitter, censorship, and abuse during the discussion.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gordon |first1=Story by Devin |date=August 19, 2019 |title=Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular? |work=] |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/ |access-date=December 25, 2020}}</ref> Rogan invited Pool and Dorsey, as well as Twitter chief legal officer ], back on his podcast. Pool described cases where he asserted conservatives were unfairly suspended on Twitter. In particular, Pool brought up the banning of ] and argued that Twitter rules against misgendering transgender users is ideological. Gadde said that Twitter is a free speech platform on which punishments are based on evaluation of consistently-applied harassment guidelines.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gilmour|first1=David|date=March 5, 2019|title=Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on Joe Rogan's podcast—again|work=]|url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/jack-dorsey-joe-rogan/|access-date=December 25, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Scola |first1=Nancy |title=Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here's the Woman Driving the Change. |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/28/twitter-vijaya-gadde-free-speech-policies-technology-social-media-429221 |access-date=December 25, 2020 |work=Politico |date=October 28, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
In August 2020, Donald Trump liked a tweet of Pool's expressing sympathy and support for ], a 17-year-old boy from ], ], who had shot three protesters during ] in ], ], killing two. Trump's son, ], retweeted a statement by Pool describing how the case of Rittenhouse had convinced Pool to vote for Trump. Trump Jr. also retweeted Pool noting that "the DOJ is dropping the hammer" in pursuing prosecution of 74 protesters in ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cheney-Rice |first1=Zak |title=Trump Is an Arsonist Masquerading As a Firefighter |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/trump-kenosha-visit-heightened-tensions.html |access-date=29 December 2020 |work=Intelligencer |date=31 August 2020 |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Crump |first1=James |title=Trump Jr shares post saying 'DOJ is dropping the hammer' as 74 face federal charges over Portland protests |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-jr-twitter-department-justice-portland-protests-a9694476.html |access-date=29 December 2020 |work=The Independent |date=28 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Independent-Aug20-rittenhouse>{{cite news |last1=Graziosi |first1=Graig |title=Trump Jr shares post defending alleged Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jr-kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-jacob-blake-a9694911.html |access-date=29 December 2020 |work=The Independent |date=28 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Papenfuss |first1=Mary |title=Trump Ducks Question About Accused Teen Shooter In Kenosha |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ducks-rittenhouse-question_n_5f4b1ed2c5b64f17e13ebd19 |work=HuffPost |date=30 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

In July 2019, Pool was invited to participate in a White House event hosting right-wing internet personalities who President Trump characterized as unfairly targeted for their views.<ref name="Collins">{{cite news |last1=Collins |first1=Ben |last2=Alba |first2=Monica |date=July 11, 2019 |title=Conspiracy theorists, far-right agitators head to White House with social media in their sights |work=] |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/conspiracy-theorists-far-right-agitators-head-white-house-social-media-n1028576 |access-date=August 24, 2021 |quote=While the Trump administration has generally embraced the far-right social media sphere, Thursday's event will be one of the first to bring that digital ecosystem into the real world.... Tim Pool, a YouTube personality who has pushed the false conspiracy theory that former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich leaked hacked emails to WikiLeaks, also plans to attend the event.}}</ref> Some news outlets described Pool as a spreader of a conspiracy theory about the ].<ref name="Collins" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Shephard |first=Alex |date=July 11, 2019 |title=Trump Assembles His Gang of Social-Media Deplorables |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/154467/trump-social-media-summit-assembles-gang-deplorables |access-date=2024-09-08 |magazine=] |issn=0028-6583 |quote=So did Tim Pool, a YouTube conspiracy theorist who has suggested that Seth Rich, the former DNC staffer whose 2016 murder remains unsolved, was collaborating with Wikileaks on anti–Hillary Clinton releases.}}</ref>
In August 2020, Trump liked a tweet published by Pool expressing sympathy and support for ], a 17-year-old from Illinois then facing trial on charges of killing two people during the ] in ], for which he was ultimately acquitted.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bosman |first=Julie |date=November 19, 2021 |title=Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted on All Counts |newspaper=] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/19/us/kyle-rittenhouse-trial}}</ref> Trump's son, ], retweeted a statement by Pool describing how the case of Rittenhouse had convinced Pool to vote for Trump.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cheney-Rice |first1=Zak |date=August 31, 2020 |title=Trump Is an Arsonist Masquerading As a Firefighter |language=en-us |work=] |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/trump-kenosha-visit-heightened-tensions.html |access-date=December 29, 2020 |quote=Rittenhouse appears to have joined a loose agglomeration of armed militia members who took it on themselves to patrol the streets that night}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Crump |first1=James |date=August 28, 2020 |title=Trump Jr shares post saying 'DOJ is dropping the hammer' as 74 face federal charges over Portland protests |work=] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-jr-twitter-department-justice-portland-protests-a9694476.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-jr-twitter-department-justice-portland-protests-a9694476.html |archive-date=May 7, 2022 |quote=The original post was written by Tim Pool, an independent reporter with a primarily right-wing audience...}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Graziosi">{{cite news |last1=Graziosi |first1=Graig |date=August 28, 2020 |title=Trump Jr shares post defending alleged Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse |work=] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jr-kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-jacob-blake-a9694911.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jr-kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-jacob-blake-a9694911.html |archive-date=May 7, 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Papenfuss |first1=Mary |date=August 30, 2020 |title=Trump Ducks Question About Accused Teen Shooter In Kenosha |work=] |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ducks-rittenhouse-question_n_5f4b1ed2c5b64f17e13ebd19}}</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|reason=4 citations over 1 retweet.|date=October 2021}}

A report from the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) said that Pool was a "superspreader" of ] surrounding voter fraud before and after the ].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Paul|first=Kari|date=March 5, 2021|title=A few rightwing 'super-spreaders' fueled bulk of election falsehoods, study says|url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/05/election-misinformation-trump-rightwing-super-spreader-study|access-date=August 7, 2021|website=]}}</ref>

In June 2021, Pool invited North Korean defector ] onto his podcast. Park claimed that North Koreans “don’t know the concept of love” aside from political admiration of Kim Jong-Un. Pool replied by telling her that this was "The most villainous thing I’ve ever heard,” however an investigation by experts and journalist into Park's claims about North Korea found that she had fabricated many of her stories, including the ones she told Pool.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sommer |first=Will |date=2023-07-17 |title=A North Korean defector captivated U.S. media. Some question her story. |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/07/16/yeonmi-park-conservative-defector-stories-questioned/ |access-date=2023-07-28 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

Pool was a critic of ], said he was unvaccinated,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=McKay |first=Tom |date=2021-11-04 |title=Tim Pool Got Covid-19 After Railing Against Vaccine Mandates |url=https://gizmodo.com/tim-pool-got-covid-19-after-railing-against-vaccine-man-1847998033 |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=] |language=en-US}}</ref> and hosted COVID-19 conspiracy theorists.<ref name=":1" /> In August 2021, he criticized New York City Mayor ]'s ] mandate, as it did not have any exemptions for ] people or people with other disabilities.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Creitz|first=Charles|date=August 18, 2021|title=De Blasio instituting segregation in New York City with stringent vaccine edict: Tim Pool|url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/de-blasio-segregation-new-york-city-vaccine-mandate|access-date=September 7, 2021|website=]}}</ref> When Pool contracted COVID-19 in November of that year, he told his audience that he was prescribed and had taken ], known to be ineffective against the virus, along with ], an effective treatment.<ref name=":2" />

In April 2022, Pool and '']'' ] ] purchased a billboard in ] to accuse ] of doxxing the Twitter account ]. In response, Lorenz called the billboard "so idiotic it's hilarious".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allsop |first=Jon |date=April 27, 2022 |title=Piers Morgan, Donald Trump, and the doomed transatlantic culture wars |url=https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/morgan_trump_interview_talktv.php |access-date=April 28, 2022 |website=]}}</ref>

In November 2022, Pool interviewed rapper and presidential candidate ] on his podcast, ''Timcast IRL''. West's political advisors, ] commentator Milo Yiannopoulos and ] ] also participated in the interview. The interview came days after West and Fuentes met with former President Trump. During the interview, West made a series of ] statements, including claims about a ] controlling the American government and media. Pool criticized West's comments on Jews, saying "I'm gonna disagree with you." After Pool refused to criticize Jews, West and his advisors walked out of the interview.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Silverman |first=Robert |date=November 28, 2022 |title=Kanye West Storms Out of Interview After Tim Pool Lightly Defends Jews |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-west-storms-out-of-interview-after-tim-pool-lightly-defends-jews|access-date= December 5, 2022 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wulfsohn|first=Joseph|date=November 28, 2022 |title=Kanye West abruptly leaves Tim Pool podcast while discussing antisemitism charges|url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/kanye-west-abruptly-leaves-tim-pool-podcast-discussing-antisemitism-charges|access-date= December 5, 2022 |website=] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Horowitz |first=Justin |date=November 29, 2022 |title=YouTuber Tim Pool praises neo-Nazi ally Milo Yiannopoulos and rapper Ye |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/tim-pool/youtuber-tim-pool-praises-neo-nazi-ally-milo-yiannopoulos-and-rapper-ye|access-date= December 5, 2022 |website=]}}</ref>

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According to '']'', '']'', and '']'', Pool has a "primarily right-wing audience".<ref name="Graziosi" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Goforth |first1=Claire |date=November 13, 2020 |title=MAGA star who predicted 50-state Trump victory says he's single because of feminism |work=] |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tim-pool-single-feminism/ |quote=...for a certain sect of the Make American Great Again crowd, the beanie-topped internet personality is a yuge deal.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kantrowitz |first1=Alex |date=July 15, 2019 |title=How Silicon Valley's Angry Right Wing Sends Its Message To Washington, DC |work=] |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-silicon-valleys-angry-right-wing-sends-its-message-to |access-date=December 30, 2020 |quote=...after users watched videos by Tim Pool and Dave Rubin, commentators popular among the right.}}</ref>

In September 2024, U.S. federal prosecutors charged two employees of Russia's state-controlled media network ] of conspiracy to violate the ], conspiracy to commit money laundering and of allegedly launching a $10 million propaganda scheme that enlisted popular right-wing social media influencers. The indictment describes, but does not mention by name, ], which has partnered with commentators Pool, ], ], ], Matt Christiansen, and Tayler Hansen.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Woodward |first1=Alex |title=US accuses Russian state media of enlisting right-wing influencers to meddle in election |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-rt-criminal-charges-russia-b2607174.html |website=] |publisher=Independent Digital News & Media Ltd |access-date=5 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906155612/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-rt-criminal-charges-russia-b2607174.html |archive-date=6 September 2024 |language=en |date=4 September 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="The Guardian">{{cite news |date=2024-09-04 |title=US conservative influencers say they are 'victims' of Russian disinformation campaign |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/tim-pool-benny-johnson-influencers-russia-disinformation |access-date=2024-09-05 |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906013358/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/tim-pool-benny-johnson-influencers-russia-disinformation |archive-date=2024-09-06 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |url-status=live}}</ref> Pool matches the indictment's description of "Commentator-2", who it alleges agreed to provide content to Tenet Media in exchange for "$100k per weekly episode".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Becket |first1=Stefan |last2=Quinn |first2=Melissa |date=2024-09-04 |title=U.S. says Russia funded media company that paid right-wing influencers millions for videos |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-tenet-media-right-wing-influencers-justice-department/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=] |publisher=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907080738/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-tenet-media-right-wing-influencers-justice-department/ |archive-date=2024-09-07 |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web |last1=Reilly |first1=Ryan J. |last2=Rubin |first2=Lisa |last3=Zadrozny |first3=Brandy |last4=Ingram |first4=David |author3-link=Brandy Zadrozny |date=2024-09-04 |title=Russian money was funneled to right-wing creators through a pro-Trump media outlet, prosecutors say |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/russian-money-was-funneled-right-wing-creators-trump-media-outlet-pros-rcna169611 |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=] |publisher=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906012440/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/russian-money-was-funneled-right-wing-creators-trump-media-outlet-pros-rcna169611 |archive-date=2024-09-06 |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref> In his response to the indictment on Twitter, Pool, who had previously stated that Ukraine was one of the United States' enemies,<ref name="s283">{{cite web |last1=Myers |first1=Steven Lee |last2=Bensinger |first2=Ken |last3=Rutenberg |first3=Jim |date=2024-09-07 |title=How Russia Found Its Way Into America's Conservative Media |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/business/media/russia-tenet-media-tim-pool.html |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="a987">{{cite web |last=Gold |first=Hadas |date=2024-09-07 |title=How some of the biggest right-wing media stars ended up as unwitting puppets of Russian propaganda |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/07/media/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool-dave-rubin-lauren-chen/index.html |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=CNN}}</ref> stated that he was unaware of the company's connections to Russian funding and declared himself a victim of the alleged scheme.<ref name="The Guardian" /> U.S. Attorney General ] said "the company never disclosed to the influencers{{snd}}or to their millions of followers{{snd}}its ties to RT and the Russian government".<ref name="The Guardian" />

====Other activities====
In 2014, Pool helped launch Tagg.ly, a mobile app that watermarks photos. Pool said he was interested in this kind of application due to experiences where others used his photographs without attribution.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burgett |first=Gannon |date=May 6, 2014 |title=Tagg.ly Makes For Simple Watermarking of Photos on iOS |url=https://petapixel.com/2014/05/06/tagg-ly-makes-for-simple-watermarking-of-photos-on-ios/ |access-date=April 2, 2019 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Reid |first1=Alastair |title=Taggly app launches to watermark images and video |url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/vice-journalist-to-launch-taggly-watermark-ugc-app/s2/a555538/ |access-date=December 30, 2020 |work=journalism.co.uk |date=April 29, 2014}}</ref>

In 2019, he co-founded the news company Subverse, which raised $1 million in 22 hours via regulation crowdfunding in 2019, surpassing the previous record on ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2019/10/152638-crowdfunding-on-wefunder-subversenews-tops-1-million-in-22-hours/|title=Crowdfunding on Wefunder, SubverseNews Tops $1 Million in 22 Hours|last=Alois|first=J. D.|date=October 9, 2019|website=Crowdfund Insider|access-date=October 20, 2019}}</ref> The service was later renamed SCNR. Pool partnered with Emily Molli and former Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro, although Pool later fired both of them in January 2021.<ref name="Sommer"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=McKay |first1=Tom |date=March 11, 2020 |title=YouTuber Tim Pool Sounds Like He's Doing Great Except for Alleged Cat Hostage Thing |work=] |url=https://gizmodo.com/youtuber-tim-pool-sounds-like-hes-doing-great-except-fo-1846459397 |access-date=March 12, 2021}}</ref>

In 2022, he collaborated with drummer ] to release two singles "Genocide" and "Only Ever Wanted". "Only Ever Wanted" reached the No. 2 spot on the global ] chart.<ref>{{citation|date=2022-08-27 |title=Tim Pool's 'Only Ever Wanted' Rockets Up iTunes Music Chart |url=https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/tim-pool-only-ever-wanted-itunes-pete-parada/ |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=Hollywood in Toto}}</ref> The single was most downloaded on the '']'' charts in September 2022 in ].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cabral |first=R. J. |date=2020-06-09 |title=Alternative Digital Song Sales |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/alternative-digital-song-sales/ |access-date=2022-09-26 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> Both singles reached the No. 1 spot on ].

=== Singles ===
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!US Digital Sales
<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2022-09-07 |title=Digital Song Sales – Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/digital-song-sales/ |url-status=bot: unknown |magazine=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907172133/https://www.billboard.com/charts/digital-song-sales/ |archive-date=September 7, 2022 |access-date=2022-10-03}}</ref>
!Emerging Artists
!US Rock
<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cusson |first=Michael |date=2022-06-28 |title=Hot Rock Songs |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-rock-songs/ |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US |access-date=2022-10-03}}</ref>
!US Rock and Alternative
<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2022-09-08 |title=Hot Rock & Alternative Songs – Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/rock-songs/ |url-status=bot: unknown |magazine=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908201245/https://www.billboard.com/charts/rock-songs/ |archive-date=September 8, 2022 |access-date=2022-10-03}}</ref>
!US Alternative
<ref name="Cabral">{{Cite magazine |last=Cabral |first=R. J. |date=2020-06-09 |title=Hot Alternative Songs |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-alternative-songs/ |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US |access-date=2022-10-03}}</ref>
!US Alternative Digital
<ref name="Cabral" />
!UK Singles
<ref name="Official Charts">{{cite web | url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/63262/timcast/ | title=Timcast | website=] }}</ref>
!UK Singles Downloads
<ref name="Official Charts" />
!label
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|2020
|"Will of The People"<ref>{{Citation |title=Timcast IRL - Will Of The People - Original Song And Music Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-iNIwAFzPw |website=YouTube | date=November 2, 2020 |language=en |access-date=2022-09-26}}</ref>
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|17
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|Trash House Records
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|"Genocide
(Losing My Mind)" ft. Pete Parada
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|Trash House Records
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|"Only Ever Wanted"
ft. Pete Parada
|2
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|21
|24
|16
|1
|82
|81
|Trash House Records
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|2023
|“Together Again”<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trash House Records Releases Cover Of 'Together Again,' Tops iTunes Charts |url=https://scnr.com/article/trash-house-records-releases-cover-of-together-again-tops-itunes-charts_c7c0a1589b7911ee9c930242ac1c0002 |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=SCNR |language=en}}</ref>
|6<ref>{{Citation |title=Billboard Top 10 Digital Song Sales (USA) {{!}} December 30, 2023 {{!}} ChartExpress | date=December 28, 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ss31DJbbsE |access-date=2024-02-07 |language=en}}</ref>
|9
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| colspan="10" |"—" denotes releases that failed to chart or were not released
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== Views ==
{{Conservatism US|commentators}}
Like several other "] gateway" or "]" figures, Pool presents a narrative of being a disaffected liberal in order to convey authenticity.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mann |first1=Marcus |last2=Zulli |first2=Diana |last3=Foote |first3=Jeremy |last4=Ku |first4=Emily |last5=Primm |first5=Emily |date=January 2023 |title=Unsorted Significance: Examining Potential Pathways to Extreme Political Beliefs and Communities on Reddit |journal=Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World |language=en |volume=9 |pages=237802312311748 |doi=10.1177/23780231231174823 |issn=2378-0231|doi-access=free }}</ref> As of 2019, Pool described himself as a ] or "center libertarian left", and rejected a ] for both self-description and in other contexts, instead dividing the public into those who are "discerning" and "skeptical" regarding mainstream media (which Pool describes intertwined with left-wing politics) and those who are "undiscerning" and "uninitiated"; his focus, however, was largely on criticizing anti-fascist protestors and progressive social justice movements.<ref name="Lewis">{{Cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Rebecca |date=October 17, 2019 |title="This Is What the News Won't Show You": YouTube Creators and the Reactionary Politics of Micro-celebrity |journal=] |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=201–217 |doi=10.1177/1527476419879919 |s2cid=210372373}}</ref>{{rp|210}} He had said that "the news is dying" and that in trying to appeal to young people with sensationalism, it skews towards liberal and left-leaning audiences.<ref name="Lewis" />{{rp|211}}A 2019 article in the journal '']'' analyzed Pool and two other YouTube influencers, ] and ], as combining "micro-celebrity pratices with a ] political standpoint".<ref name="Lewis" />{{rp|201}} Prior to Occupy Wall Street in 2011, Pool sometimes described himself as being anti-authoritarian or "pro-transparency", but not as very political.<ref name="Marantz" />

A July 2019 ''Vice'' article described Pool as "a right-wing media figure", while another ''Vice'' article from the same month described him as "]" and "]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Uberti |first=David |date=July 26, 2019 |title=Tulsi Gabbard's $50M Google Lawsuit Takes a Page from the Far-Right Playbook |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3navw/tulsi-gabbards-dollar50-million-google-lawsuit-takes-a-page-from-the-far-right-playbook |access-date=October 20, 2019 |website=Vice |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Makuch |first=Ben |date=July 10, 2019 |title=Trump Invites Fringe Social Media Company Popular With Nazis to the White House |url=https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qv7q87/trump-invites-fringe-social-media-company-popular-with-nazis-to-the-white-house |access-date=October 20, 2019 |website=Vice |language=en}}</ref> In 2019, '']'' said Pool "describes himself as a pro-] ]" but said his "views on issues including social media bias and immigration often align with ]'".<ref name="Overly">{{Cite web |last=Overly |first=Steven |date=July 11, 2019 |title=Social media gadflies gather for airing of grievances with Trump |url=https://politi.co/2LfEebx |access-date=October 20, 2019 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>

According to ] in 2020, "Pool has amplified claims that conservative media endure persecution and bias at the hands of tech companies."<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 11, 2020 |title=Critics slam Trump 'social media summit' over far-right invitees |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/critics-slam-trump-social-media-summit-invitees-190711192827727.html |access-date=October 20, 2019 |publisher=]}}</ref> On August 24, 2020, Pool announced his support for Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, writing that he felt alienated by changes he perceived in the modern left.<ref name="Graziosi" /><ref name="Sommer">{{Cite news |last=Sommer |first=Will |date=March 11, 2021 |title=YouTube Star Tim Pool's News Site Collapses Amid Allegations He Took a Cat Hostage |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-star-tim-pools-news-site-collapses-amid-allegations-he-took-a-cat-hostage |work=] |language=en}}</ref>

In 2021, the ] (SPLC) described Pool as a "pro-Trump social media personality" who "uses his YouTube show to showcase far-right extremists".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Edison Hayden |first=Michael |date=July 7, 2021 |title='We Make Mistakes': Twitter's Embrace of the Extreme Far Right |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/07/07/we-make-mistakes-twitters-embrace-extreme-far-right |access-date=July 8, 2021 |publisher=] |language=en}}</ref> In 2022, ] referred to Pool as a "right-wing influencer".<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Goggin |first1=Ben |last2=Tenbarge |first2=Kat |date=November 23, 2022 |title=Right-wing influencers and media double down on anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the wake of the Colorado shooting |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/right-wing-influencers-media-double-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-wake-colorado-rcna58371 |access-date=27 June 2023 |publisher=]}}</ref> ] in 2023 said Pool's podcasts "cover right-wing talking points and conspiracy theories".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last1=Sardarizadeh |first1=Shayan |last2=Wendling |first2=Mike |date=2023-05-09 |title=Why some people are spreading false rumours about the Texas gunman |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65539698 |access-date=2023-07-16 |work=] |language=en-GB |quote=There's no evidence that Garcia was inspired to action by Mr Pool's podcasts, which cover right-wing talking points and conspiracy theories. But Mr Pool immediately tried to cast doubt on the veracity of the material, accusing those digging up the material as being part of a "psyop".}}</ref> '']'' in 2023 described Pool's podcast as "extreme right-wing", and Pool himself as "right-wing" and a "provocateur".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lola Fadulu |date=10 May 2023 |title=In Trump's Trial, a Secret Fight Over a Juror's Right-Wing News Source |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/nyregion/trump-carroll-trial-juror-right-wing-podcast.html |website=]}}</ref> '']'' in 2024 described Pool as a "star influencer" of the "American far right",<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Reynaud |first1=Florian |last2=Leloup |first2=Damien |date=2024-09-05 |title=US crackdown on Tenet Media reveals ongoing Russian election interference |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2024/09/05/russian-interference-in-the-us-presidential-election-behind-the-obscure-tenet-media-the-persistent-shadow-of-rt_6724972_13.html |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=] |language=en |quote=However, the company has managed to attract some big names from the American far right, such as its star influencer Tim Pool... At the same time, he shifted politically, increasingly collaborating with hard-right influencers over the past 10 years.}}</ref> and a 2023 article in the ''Journal of Quantitative Description'' described Pool as "extreme right".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lorenz |first1=Andrea |last2=Schmitt |first2=Carolyn |last3=McGregor |first3=Shannon |last4=Malmer |first4=Daniel |date=6 September 2023 |title="CNN Can Kiss My As$": A Novel Description of Hyperpartisan U.S. News Consumers |url=https://journalqd.org/article/view/4062 |journal=Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media |volume=3 |doi=10.51685/jqd.2023.015 |issn=2673-8813 |quote=Take, for example, Tim Pool, now an extreme-right YouTube magnate..."|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Pool has frequently criticized aid to ] as a provocation against ], and called Ukraine "one of the greatest enemies of our nation" in August 2024, after allegations that a Ukrainian was involved in the ].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gold |first=Hadas |date=2024-09-07 |title=How some of the biggest right-wing media stars ended up as unwitting puppets of Russian propaganda |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/media/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool-dave-rubin-lauren-chen/index.html |access-date=2024-09-08 |publisher=] |language=en}}</ref> Pool has supported Trump in the ].<ref name=":1" />

==Personal life==
Pool lives in ].<ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1734608119354015792 |user=Timcast |title=our hq is in west virginia |author=Tim Pool}}</ref> Prior to the Occupy movement, Pool lived with his brother in ], where he played guitar and made skateboarding videos.<ref name="Marantz" /><ref name="Captain 2011" />


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American right-wing political commentator (born 1986)

Tim Pool
Pool in 2023
Personal information
BornTimothy Daniel Pool
(1986-03-09) March 9, 1986 (age 38)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation(s)YouTuber, journalist
Websitetimcast.com
YouTube information
Channels
Years active2011–present
Genre
Subscribers
  • 1.37 million (Tim Pool)
  • 1.29 million (Timcast)
  • 1.9 million (Timcast IRL)
Total views
  • 504 million (Tim Pool)
  • 1.4 billion (Timcast)
  • 1.2 billion (Timcast IRL)
Creator Awards
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers2020
Tim Pool's voice On fake news and social media censorship
Recorded November 2020
Last updated: September 22, 2024

Timothy Daniel Pool (born March 9, 1986) is an American right-wing political commentator and podcast host. He first became known for live streaming the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests. He joined Vice Media and Fusion TV in 2014, later working on YouTube and other platforms.

Early life

Pool was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in a middle-class family. His father was a firefighter and his mother sold cars. His maternal grandmother is Korean.

Pool attended a Catholic school until completing the fifth grade and left school at the age of 14.

Career

Occupy Wall Street

After watching a viral video from Occupy Wall Street, Pool purchased a one-way bus ticket to New York. Pool joined the Occupy Wall Street protestors on September 20, 2011, and met Henry Ferry, a former realtor and sales manager, shortly afterwards, and they formed a media company called The Other 99. Pool also began livestreaming the protests with his cell phone and quickly assumed an on-camera role. Pool used a live-chat stream to respond to questions from viewers while reporting on Occupy Wall Street. Pool also let his viewers direct him on where to shoot footage. He modified a toy remote-controlled Parrot AR.Drone for aerial surveillance and modified software for live streaming into a system called DroneStream. In mid-November 2011, Pool provided non-stop 21 hour coverage of Occupy Wall Street's eviction from Zuccotti Park. 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.

In January 2012, he was physically accosted by a masked assailant. Also in January 2012, The Other 99 was disbanded following a feud between Pool and Ferry. Pool had also planned on livestreaming occupy protests across the United States for a documentary called Occumentary, but it was never filmed.

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. While covering the NoNATO protests at the 2012 Chicago summit, Pool and four others were pulled over by a dozen Chicago police officers in unmarked vehicles. The group was removed from the vehicle at gunpoint, questioned, and detained for ten minutes. The reason given by police was that the team's vehicle matched a description of another vehicle they sought.

In the context of the Occupy movement, Pool's footage was aired on NBC and other mainstream networks. According to The Washington Post, Pool "helped demonstrate to activists that livestreaming had potential as an alternative to depending on cable news coverage". He was nominated as a Time 100 personality in March 2012 for his importance to the Occupy movement, alongside David Graeber, as Time dubbed Pool "the eyes of the movement".

In November 2011, Pool told On the Media, "I don't consider myself a journalist." "I consider myself an activist 100%" there "to support the movement." In October 2012, he told El País that "I'm not an activist" and described himself as a journalist. In 2018, Pool said that "I don't align with Occupy Wall Street and never did". In 2021, he denounced the Occupy movement as "crooked".

Vice and Fusion

Pool in 2015

After joining Vice Media, Pool began producing and hosting content and developed new methods of reporting. In 2013, he reported on the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul with Google Glass. In April 2013, Pool received a Shorty Award in the "Best Journalist in Social Media" category. From 2013 to 2014, while working for Vice, Pool covered and live streamed the mass protests in Ukraine that led to the collapse of the Yanukovych government. He also covered the Ferguson unrest and covered protests in Thailand, Turkey, and Egypt.

In 2014, he joined Fusion TV as Director of Media innovation and Senior Correspondent.

Independent work

As of 2021, Pool operates six YouTube channels, two of which, Timcast and Tim Pool, feature daily political commentary, while a third serves as a clip channel for Pool's podcast, Timcast IRL.

In May 2022, it was estimated that Timcast IRL generated $65,824.86 in non-advertising revenue for YouTube across 100 videos on the Timcast IRL channel from October 2020 to November 2021.

Journalism and commentary

Pool covered the 2016 Milwaukee riots. Pool said he would leave the area and stop reporting on these events, saying he thought it was dangerous due to perceived escalating "racial tensions".

In February 2017, Pool traveled to Sweden to investigate claims of "no-go zones" and problems with refugees in the country. He launched a crowdfunding effort to do so after U.S. president 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." 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. While filming in Rinkeby, an "especially vulnerable area" in Stockholm, Pool alleged that he had to be escorted by police, 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." 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."

In November 2017, Pool created his second YouTube channel, Timcast News.

In 2019, podcaster Joe Rogan invited Pool onto his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, following an interview with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The two criticized the banning of Milo Yiannopoulos from Twitter, arguing that the provocateur had not truly encouraged his fans to harass Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones. The Atlantic contributor Devin Gordon criticized Rogan and Pool, stating that both men demonstrated a limited understanding of Twitter, censorship, and abuse during the discussion. Rogan invited Pool and Dorsey, as well as Twitter chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, back on his podcast. Pool described cases where he asserted conservatives were unfairly suspended on Twitter. In particular, Pool brought up the banning of Alex Jones and argued that Twitter rules against misgendering transgender users is ideological. Gadde said that Twitter is a free speech platform on which punishments are based on evaluation of consistently-applied harassment guidelines.

In July 2019, Pool was invited to participate in a White House event hosting right-wing internet personalities who President Trump characterized as unfairly targeted for their views. Some news outlets described Pool as a spreader of a conspiracy theory about the murder of Seth Rich.

In August 2020, Trump liked a tweet published by Pool expressing sympathy and support for Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois then facing trial on charges of killing two people during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for which he was ultimately acquitted. Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., retweeted a statement by Pool describing how the case of Rittenhouse had convinced Pool to vote for Trump.

A report from the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) said that Pool was a "superspreader" of fake news surrounding voter fraud before and after the 2020 United States presidential election.

In June 2021, Pool invited North Korean defector Yeonmi Park onto his podcast. Park claimed that North Koreans “don’t know the concept of love” aside from political admiration of Kim Jong-Un. Pool replied by telling her that this was "The most villainous thing I’ve ever heard,” however an investigation by experts and journalist into Park's claims about North Korea found that she had fabricated many of her stories, including the ones she told Pool.

Pool was a critic of vaccine mandates in the COVID-19 pandemic, said he was unvaccinated, and hosted COVID-19 conspiracy theorists. In August 2021, he criticized New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's COVID-19 vaccine passport mandate, as it did not have any exemptions for immunocompromised people or people with other disabilities. When Pool contracted COVID-19 in November of that year, he told his audience that he was prescribed and had taken ivermectin, known to be ineffective against the virus, along with monoclonal antibodies, an effective treatment.

In April 2022, Pool and The Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing purchased a billboard in Times Square to accuse Taylor Lorenz of doxxing the Twitter account Libs of TikTok. In response, Lorenz called the billboard "so idiotic it's hilarious".

In November 2022, Pool interviewed rapper and presidential candidate Kanye West on his podcast, Timcast IRL. West's political advisors, alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos and white supremacist Nick Fuentes also participated in the interview. The interview came days after West and Fuentes met with former President Trump. During the interview, West made a series of antisemitic statements, including claims about a Jewish conspiracy controlling the American government and media. Pool criticized West's comments on Jews, saying "I'm gonna disagree with you." After Pool refused to criticize Jews, West and his advisors walked out of the interview.

According to The Independent, BuzzFeed News, and The Daily Dot, Pool has a "primarily right-wing audience".

In September 2024, U.S. federal prosecutors charged two employees of Russia's state-controlled media network RT of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, conspiracy to commit money laundering and of allegedly launching a $10 million propaganda scheme that enlisted popular right-wing social media influencers. The indictment describes, but does not mention by name, Tenet Media, which has partnered with commentators Pool, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, Benny Johnson, Matt Christiansen, and Tayler Hansen. Pool matches the indictment's description of "Commentator-2", who it alleges agreed to provide content to Tenet Media in exchange for "$100k per weekly episode". In his response to the indictment on Twitter, Pool, who had previously stated that Ukraine was one of the United States' enemies, stated that he was unaware of the company's connections to Russian funding and declared himself a victim of the alleged scheme. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said "the company never disclosed to the influencers – or to their millions of followers – its ties to RT and the Russian government".

Other activities

In 2014, Pool helped launch Tagg.ly, a mobile app that watermarks photos. Pool said he was interested in this kind of application due to experiences where others used his photographs without attribution.

In 2019, he co-founded the news company Subverse, which raised $1 million in 22 hours via regulation crowdfunding in 2019, surpassing the previous record on Wefunder. The service was later renamed SCNR. Pool partnered with Emily Molli and former Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro, although Pool later fired both of them in January 2021.

In 2022, he collaborated with drummer Pete Parada to release two singles "Genocide" and "Only Ever Wanted". "Only Ever Wanted" reached the No. 2 spot on the global iTunes chart. The single was most downloaded on the Billboard charts in September 2022 in Alternative Digital Song Sales. Both singles reached the No. 1 spot on iTunes.

Singles

Peak Chart Positions
Year Title US Digital Sales

Emerging Artists US Rock

US Rock and Alternative

US Alternative

US Alternative Digital

UK Singles

UK Singles Downloads

label
2020 "Will of The People" — — — — — 17 — — Trash House Records
2022 "Genocide

(Losing My Mind)" ft. Pete Parada

4 — — — — — — 2 Trash House Records
"Only Ever Wanted"

ft. Pete Parada

2 — 21 24 16 1 82 81 Trash House Records
2023 “Together Again” 6 9 — — — — — — Trash House Records
"—" denotes releases that failed to chart or were not released

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Like several other "alt-right gateway" or "alt-lite" figures, Pool presents a narrative of being a disaffected liberal in order to convey authenticity. As of 2019, Pool described himself as a centrist or "center libertarian left", and rejected a left–right political paradigm for both self-description and in other contexts, instead dividing the public into those who are "discerning" and "skeptical" regarding mainstream media (which Pool describes intertwined with left-wing politics) and those who are "undiscerning" and "uninitiated"; his focus, however, was largely on criticizing anti-fascist protestors and progressive social justice movements. He had said that "the news is dying" and that in trying to appeal to young people with sensationalism, it skews towards liberal and left-leaning audiences.A 2019 article in the journal Television & New Media analyzed Pool and two other YouTube influencers, Dave Rubin and Blaire White, as combining "micro-celebrity pratices with a reactionary political standpoint". Prior to Occupy Wall Street in 2011, Pool sometimes described himself as being anti-authoritarian or "pro-transparency", but not as very political.

A July 2019 Vice article described Pool as "a right-wing media figure", while another Vice article from the same month described him as "lefty" and "progressive". In 2019, Politico said Pool "describes himself as a pro-Bernie Sanders social liberal" but said his "views on issues including social media bias and immigration often align with conservatives'".

According to Al Jazeera in 2020, "Pool has amplified claims that conservative media endure persecution and bias at the hands of tech companies." On August 24, 2020, Pool announced his support for Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, writing that he felt alienated by changes he perceived in the modern left.

In 2021, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described Pool as a "pro-Trump social media personality" who "uses his YouTube show to showcase far-right extremists". In 2022, NBC News referred to Pool as a "right-wing influencer". BBC News in 2023 said Pool's podcasts "cover right-wing talking points and conspiracy theories". The New York Times in 2023 described Pool's podcast as "extreme right-wing", and Pool himself as "right-wing" and a "provocateur". Le Monde in 2024 described Pool as a "star influencer" of the "American far right", and a 2023 article in the Journal of Quantitative Description described Pool as "extreme right".

Pool has frequently criticized aid to Ukraine as a provocation against Russia, and called Ukraine "one of the greatest enemies of our nation" in August 2024, after allegations that a Ukrainian was involved in the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage. Pool has supported Trump in the 2024 United States presidential election.

Personal life

Pool lives in West Virginia. Prior to the Occupy movement, Pool lived with his brother in Newport News, Virginia, where he played guitar and made skateboarding videos.

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