Tom Rowsell

Tom Rowsell is a British YouTuber, film-maker, and former journalist. Rowsell operates Survive the Jive, a YouTube channel primarily focused on the Indo-European peoples and Indo-European studies.
Prior to becoming a YouTuber, Rowsell wrote as a journalist for publications including the far-right wing media entity Breitbart News, and Dazed magazine. In 2014, Rowsell and Jamie Roper directed From Ruins to Runes, an independent documentary. The Folklore Society describes the documentary as focused on "Anglo-Saxon haunted barrows and pagan shrines to the dead; seeks evidence for roots of a" pagan past by consultations with neo-pagans and Viking re-enactors, and finds healing gods and ancient cultures in old chronicles
In 2019, British advocacy group Hope not Hate identified Rowsell as attending a meeting held by the United Kingdom extension of Generation Identity, an alt-right organization. Other attendees of the event included alt-right YouTuber Millennial Woes (Colin Robertson) and activist , board member of the American Freedom Party, a white nationalist organization. According to Hope not Hate, Rowsell requested "his attendance to be kept secret".
In a 2020 study on the alt-right, scholars Patrik Hermansson, David Lawrence, Joe Mulhall, and Simon Murdoch refer to Rowsell as “the alt-right’s go-to expert on all matters Indo-European” and discuss Rowsell's promotion of pseudoscientific notions from fringe sources on his YouTube channel:
:In a Survive the Jive video entitled "Real Hyperboreans - Ancient North Eurasians", Rowsell admits that Tilak’s theories seem absurd "from a literal perspective," but tentatively suggests such myths may arise from "some kind of ancestral memory of a migration from the north into Pontic-Caspian steppe" by the ancient North Eurasian peoples. However, even if such myths are factually false, he claims "the polar origin myth is not without merit, because there is still the esoteric aspect to consider."<ref name="HYPERBOREANS"/>

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