It makes me happy to know that Tom Scott has always been Tom Scott.

@IzzyIkigai

Жыл бұрын

How can you believe that? Do you have proof? Who says he wasn't Tom Welsh for a while?

@kaustavchakraborty6811

Жыл бұрын

@@shreeeze Don't forget Tom Murikan

@Awesome2000WasTaken

Жыл бұрын

@@kaustavchakraborty6811 And Tom Canadian.

@cmbnparfenos

Жыл бұрын

Tom Deutsch

@asheep7797

Жыл бұрын

@@Awesome2000WasTaken And Tom Holland.

At this point I'm expecting a leaked ultrasound recording of unborn Tom saying "I am currently in a womb of my biological mother."

@NotNite

Жыл бұрын

I am in the Triple Laser test chamber (it never ends for you I'm sorry)

@juicyboxesxo

Жыл бұрын

"i am in my father's balls."

@DREADEDNOTE

Жыл бұрын

omg are you pootal 2 speedruber?!

@TommySwansonFi

Жыл бұрын

@@NotNite I am at the Aperture Science testing laboratories, and I am about to be covered in repulsion gel

@daviscarl3766

Жыл бұрын

Ok the internet is weird

His voice hasn't changed one iota, wow.

@dermathze700

Жыл бұрын

It's crazy, a lot of youtubers change a lot in even a few years, but this is 13 years ago and he still has pretty much the same mannerisms.

@Ryan-bw9to

Жыл бұрын

His speaking style hasn't changed either.

@Soniboy84

Жыл бұрын

Apparently he was born with this voice

@sterisharms1468

Жыл бұрын

He does enunciate more now

@julianw1010

Жыл бұрын

He got more confident though. You can see his speaking here wasn't really fluent, many pauses. Now he seems to be way more coherent. Might also be cuts though. This wasn't scripted obviously

Half expected the video to start with him saying "I am at York University"

@JB_inks

2 жыл бұрын

That's in Canada. This is the University of York.

@woozy7405

Жыл бұрын

There was no clap at the beginning?

@starstencahl8985

Жыл бұрын

@@JB_inks “I am at the University of York”

@ZPheenix

Жыл бұрын

@@JB_inks no York university is in the English city of York

@JB_inks

Жыл бұрын

@@starstencahl8985 you can just Google it to prove me right

Truly a man with an unrecognizable age

@geography_tube

Жыл бұрын

Mans probably 18 here but sounds/looks like hes 30 nearing 40

@NyolateAMV

Жыл бұрын

@@geography_tube No he was around 25 there.

@Snibble

Жыл бұрын

@@geography_tube now he's nearing his 50 and still sounds/looks the same apart from the hair.

@joels7605

Жыл бұрын

@@Snibble He's not nearing his 50s, he's 38. He was born old.

@Snibble

Жыл бұрын

@@joels7605 OK... dang.. I thought he was older then me :(

I wouldn’t have recognized him if not for that little bit of red

@nanoqht285

4 жыл бұрын

Nice one.

@MrHack4never

2 жыл бұрын

I have seen some of his older video's, so I kind of knew what he looked like back then

@k.r.99

Жыл бұрын

@@MrHack4never this! I was like: look at the here, easy to recognise.

@_GhostMiner

Жыл бұрын

And his 90's hairstyle

@jamesguy1030

Жыл бұрын

Ghostminer ~ Yeah, EUROPA THE LAST BATTLE is the best Documentary series ever

Next video. A 2 year old Tom saying 'These are my first words' in that exact same voice

@janslavik5284

Жыл бұрын

"I'm at maternity ward, and what you can see behind me is my mother..."

@bootmanbill2362

Жыл бұрын

@@janslavik5284 “I have just spent the last 9 months gestating”

@charligoesslowlyinsane

Жыл бұрын

"I'm here, in the womb, in Mother, England"

@dronespace

Жыл бұрын

@@janslavik5284 😂

@ChrisClark1999

Жыл бұрын

@Edward Wilson that's hilarious I actually snorted at the comment before reading this

I’m just thinking about how there are definitely some people in the world who, when they imagine Tom, imagine this Tom and that’s wild

@Fawkes42

Жыл бұрын

They probably also imagine Mad Cap'n Tom tbf

@julianw1010

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

@Klearith

Жыл бұрын

@@julianw1010 that they don't know ehm "modern" Tom, but that they only remember him from the time this was recorded because they haven't seen him since.

@fatbgmanbg975

Жыл бұрын

Nah, probably they know what he does nowadays... BUT, a somewhat more likely outcome is for that at least one person that you is on the video, is probably gone... 🤣 👌

@davelangford2439

Жыл бұрын

Have you got a link to your weed dealer, coz you sound high af?

that's badass, i can't say i'm surprised to learn he was involved with something like this as a student

@janhetjoch

Жыл бұрын

Look up "the ballad mad cap'n Tom" and you'll get your answers

@gottjager760

Жыл бұрын

It was very much an accident

@nathanlevesque7812

Жыл бұрын

wat dis

@jobs.1518

Жыл бұрын

Nathan

@zenleek2129

Жыл бұрын

@@jobs.1518 Yes ?

surprised he studied linguistics. He is rocking the style of every undergraduate comp sci student

@militantman

Жыл бұрын

He’s pretty good with technology, probably could have studied it.

@swank8508

Жыл бұрын

theres a ton of overlap between the fields

@miscellaneousz2681

Жыл бұрын

That’s disrespectful to call him a a computer science student, those people are chronically online redditors

@CheeseOfMasters

Жыл бұрын

@@miscellaneousz2681 It was different ten years ago mate.

@barrybritcher

Жыл бұрын

Thunderf00t

Another rare Tom to my collection!

@nadiahapsari3359

Жыл бұрын

Read this in General Grievous voice

University of York Student here, we still have many posters around campus advocating for the University’s de-investment from unethical businesses/ sectors. The work Tom did in 2009 is a battle still going in 2022 and beyond.

@bert1029

Жыл бұрын

I’m a York student too, can you please tell me where I can find more info about this?

@tek1645

Жыл бұрын

@Teamgeist 11 minute ago? Is everyone being recommended this video right now 😂

@grotesqburlesk

Жыл бұрын

@@tek1645 yeah xD

@eeeee6431

Жыл бұрын

@@tek1645probably!

@nicehatmrdog5265

Жыл бұрын

@Teamgeist yeah lmao students are cringe, i was at york from 2016 onwards & its a shithole. also martin crosby is a fucking stupid bald cunt who doesn't give 2 shits about the students. chancellor lines his greedy fat pockets while the uni services go to shite. fuck york !!!

2009 doesn't feel that long ago somehow this feels like 1990

@me_n_the_boys_lookin_for_beans

Жыл бұрын

i think that’s just tom

@ajs41

5 ай бұрын

1990 feels like 5 minutes ago to me.

cannot express the shock that occurred when he turned around

What a well spoken man. He should start a KZread channel.

@simplyyellow6240

Жыл бұрын

I think he's to old for that. By the time he gain a lot of audience, his hair already turn grey.

@SunnyDAP

Жыл бұрын

Buddy, do I have a surprise for you…

@StephanAlberts

Жыл бұрын

@@SunnyDAP Boy do I have a woosh for you

@SunnyDAP

Жыл бұрын

@@StephanAlberts boy do I have a woosh for you

@alexb__4133

Жыл бұрын

The red tie fits him very good. If he wants to wear something more casual, probably a red T-shirt or so would look fine.

Just a reminder: at the time Tom Scott already was 82 years old!!! Damn, talk about staying young forever!

@cye2310

Жыл бұрын

Please don't lie man, it's much more older than that.

@elevatorctln

Жыл бұрын

Tom's true age is unknown but he's estimated to be around 516 and a half in this video

@ciclon5682

Жыл бұрын

@@cye2310 yhea. tom,s true age is not able to be written in human terms. i dont even think humans can properly grasp the concept of an infinite age.

Wow. Nothing's changed. The tonality of his voice, his speaking style (cadence, rhythm, etc), and even his body language, pretty all haven't changed at all. Only difference is his hair.

@hal-fling

Жыл бұрын

tbh I'd say the one thing that changed is that he emotes with his hands more now

@freyak5401

Жыл бұрын

@@hal-fling Yeah, I think annother thing is that he's clearly more comfortable in front of a camera

@justicejericho97

Жыл бұрын

Narcicists tend not to change because they perceive themselves to be perfect as seen by his smug remarks and laughing that the policy will last 100 years, when in actuality striking and protests have continued to this day, with Union/University relations become worse.

@jessh4016

Жыл бұрын

@@justicejericho97 That's all pretty out of left field and baseless.

Crazy how great of a speaker he was even back then.

Tom Scott for PM I say. He a) does research b) sane c) changes mind if new research d) decent chap e) explains things really well.

@anusername8350

Жыл бұрын

All reasons why he couldn’t be a politician

@beth12svist

Жыл бұрын

If I understand British politics correctly (thanks, Jay Foreman), he would have to become the leader of a political party first, and I can't see him doing that. Unless he does it by accident.

@ww-ue7nj

Жыл бұрын

“I am at 10 Downing Street.”

@Dribbleondo

Жыл бұрын

No more tesco value knives!

@Henryyy_XIV

Жыл бұрын

He did run for parliament a number of years ago as for a lost bet, look up "the ballad of mad cap'n tom part 2", he'll tell the whole story there

Young Tom didn't have a lot of hand gestures doing on when he's talking and it feels a little bit weird to me🤔

@pekee9304

4 жыл бұрын

No reason to have them bacl then because he doesnt want to explain something on a youtube video, dont you think it would be kinda boring to just listen to a dude with a red tshirt and a slightly weird posture talk for 10 minutes about computers, code and science? Well not necessarily but for sole it could, and it also looks more convincing and entretaining.

Natural speaker. If only the majority of our public figures spoke with this much humility & transparency. That'd be refreshing.

"I'm on a field near York University and it may seem like any other field but this is the most dangerous field in the world."

Tom Acott on the first day of class: “Hello I’m Tom Scott and I am currently standing in a room. But it’s not just any room, this is a schoolroom. More specifically, it’s a British schoolroom…”

@cerebrummaximus3762

Жыл бұрын

*and that's something you might not have known*

i swear to god, old clips of this dude just completely unrelated to KZread pop up everywhere. this dude has truly done everything

It's amazing how Tom looks younger now

@LuciusC

Жыл бұрын

Must be that adrenochrome

@rchaykovskiy

Жыл бұрын

@@LuciusC lmao

@Marco_Onyxheart

Жыл бұрын

He's pretty grey, though

@sirgarence

Жыл бұрын

No he doesn't

For anybody wondering: this is shot on the rear lawn of Heslington Hall, a 500 year old Tudor manor at the University of York. Weirdly, for a university founded in the 1960s, the hall isn't even the oldest building they own.

@nesnibila4888

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering - thank you

@Tasorius

Жыл бұрын

Where Tom Scott lived before he became a vampire.

@TheParadiseParadox

Жыл бұрын

reading this comment in Tom's voice

@colors6692

Жыл бұрын

Funded by the SLAVE trade that Britain loves so much!

He went straight from looking 14 years old to looking 48.

@lordsiergiej9685

Жыл бұрын

Isn't he around 48?

@kaustavchakraborty6811

Жыл бұрын

@@lordsiergiej9685 I think 36

@doctorcreeps2169

Жыл бұрын

14 and 48 are both definitely a bit of a stretch, i think its safe to say aside from a change in clothes and hairstyle he is basically the same despite the gap between 2009 and now even his voice hasnt changed a bit

@skipads5141

Жыл бұрын

@@lordsiergiej9685: Rumor has it, he's immortal.

I want to believe that back in the day Tom would untie his long hair and headbang HARD to some great metal music 🤘

@kanalkucker14

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure he did

@heavymind

Жыл бұрын

judging by the video with Beardyman on plus channel, his preferences in music are more pop :D but who knows, tastes change

@pattheplanter

Жыл бұрын

@@heavymind That is the hairstyle of someone who loves Gong but will sober up in a few years and forget they existed until he hears them again.

Wow, he is so composed there like idk how many interviews has he done or how many videos he did before then, but he is acting really well in front of a camera

This guy definitely knows how to talk.

@korganrocks3995

Жыл бұрын

I was half-expecting him to be a bumbling mess, but clearly he was just made for talking to a camera.

@moonwalkhi

Жыл бұрын

to be fair, he studied linguistics

@Blast-Forward

Жыл бұрын

@@moonwalkhi I don't really think you will talk a lot more studying linguistics than studying anything else. 🤔

@owneyyuwu2804

Жыл бұрын

@@Blast-Forward i do

@Blast-Forward

Жыл бұрын

@@owneyyuwu2804 Why?

I must be deeper than I thought down the Tom rabbit hole to get this recommended to me, wowww

Baby Tom is adorable.

@rc_woshimao957

3 жыл бұрын

lmao I feel you

@BSideWasTaken

Жыл бұрын

Baaabyyy TOM doo doo doo

@chrisclay9704

Жыл бұрын

No he isn’t

@nadiahapsari3359

Жыл бұрын

@been guy Read it ironically,it's great 😂

@me_n_the_boys_lookin_for_beans

Жыл бұрын

@been guy he’s baby, always has been, always will be.

Damn he's Always had such a good speaking voice. This man was practically born to present.

Awww, he hasn't changed much, that's kind of wholesome

I love that this sounds like every Tom Scott video ever.

He's so young

Tom Scott, the man who always sounds and looks like he's in his late 20's or early 30's.

@bmorris5863

Жыл бұрын

Looks like an absolute nonce goblin here.

What a classy Metalhead he is, ain't He?

I can fully imagine him screaming at me for running through the halls.

His confidence is proverbial, damn

Tom is now frantically remembering all his early camera appearances and wondering when they will surface on KZread

@pattheplanter

Жыл бұрын

In his last video he stated he had never taken his shirt off in front of a camera. I wonder if that is true.

and 13 years later we're still not over academic staff pensions

@friskjidjidoglu7415

Жыл бұрын

Dunno anything about York uni. What’s going on with it?

@TheSummersilk

Жыл бұрын

@@friskjidjidoglu7415 Greedy lecturers think they are above market rate.

@JunoMichiaki

Жыл бұрын

@@friskjidjidoglu7415 More of a UK problem. Lecturers' real wages & pensions going down (not to mention postgrads who were never paid fairly in the first place), there's been strikes for the past two years, and now the UCU and RG unis are kinda in a stalemate partly because RG unis agreed amongst themselves that none of them would compromise, and partly because the UCU is good at making placards and useless in negotiation.

Just shows that his presenting style in his videos is natural for him

Truly a Tom Scott moment

God the ponytail reveal at 0:20 was hilarious.

Woah, I was at York Uni in 2009. Had no idea he was there too. Even weirder, just checked Wikipedia and realised I was born about 10 minutes from where he grew up. Weird.

Seems like I'm not the only one who saw this video trough KZread's recommendations.

I’ve never seen someone stay literally the same since the beginning of time. I love this

It's a little odd that this was suggested almost immediately after watching University Challenge with him on it (on unconnected Freeview TV).

You've not changed much in the last twelve years, have you Tom?

I wish i had a voice like his.

Damn I'm so jealous of his hair

@kawaiilotus

Жыл бұрын

i fancy long haired Tom Scott so much.

@quickman1047

Жыл бұрын

Same! Super strong hairline. Too bad the trade off is he went almost completely grey by his late 30’s lol

@WAVE0025

Жыл бұрын

@Quickman "Grey hair is better than no hair" -Sun Tzu, art of balding prevention products

Fun fact: That tie was made from one of Tom's red shirts.

I've smoked a joint standing there

He carries himself the exact same way as he does now, love it

Crazy how 2009 feels like 1989 now. Shiiiiiit!!!!

Holy shit his hair is so long

He went from looking like a German banking executive to a worn out college senior who just passed his finals

somebody needs to use AI to put him in a red t-shirt. It feels weird without the red t-shirt.

@hoghuhaghu8506

Жыл бұрын

I'll post that video on my channel, reply and I'll keep you updated 👍

I'd love to know the context for this.

@theworldvideos1

5 жыл бұрын

Basically students wanted the university to implement an ethical investment policy, which mandates the University to ‘not knowingly invest in companies whose activities include practices which directly pose a risk of serious harm to individuals or groups.’ There is more info about the 2009 protest below: www.nouse.co.uk/2009/03/10/university-passes-ethical-investment-policy-following-student-campaign/

@Jacob-yg7lz

2 жыл бұрын

Further context: Tom ran for election as a literal pirate.

@Lightkie

Жыл бұрын

@@Jacob-yg7lz I thought you meant the Pirate Party (who are currently in the Czech government and thus part of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the second half of 2022) but it was as a joke with his International Talk Like a Pirate Day persona Mad Cap'n Tom with which he unintentionally won the election for president of the University of York Students' Union in 2009, going for a seat in the Parliament in 2010 because of a lost bet and running against an actual Pirate Party candidate as well (who got 90 votes and Tom Scott 84 in last place). Go check out his Wikipedia article for a picture in his pirate costume.

@jonathany1240

Жыл бұрын

@@Lightkie Oh i heard about this and read that article back in the day! That was Tom? amazingly small world!

Videos in the 2000s are starting to look like they're from the 80s

his voice has NOT changed

Its so cool how he used to have a ponytail

if i saw this and compared today's tom with past tom i'd say he's de-aged and looks more lively now than in the past

BRO THIS IS LITERALLY AROUND THE CORNER FROM MY ACCOMODATION BIG UP DERWENT

@blartversenwaldiii

Жыл бұрын

DERWENT GANG

@isaackyanite2571

Жыл бұрын

We might have asbestos but at least we're not on east campus

@Spencer-vm9kt

Жыл бұрын

@@isaackyanite2571 All my homies hate Langwith

@isaackyanite2571

Жыл бұрын

@@Spencer-vm9kt Vanbrugh, more like van-bruh

@Spencer-vm9kt

Жыл бұрын

@@isaackyanite2571 💯

Instead of a younger version of Tom Scott, it actually feels more like watching a parallel universe version of Tom Scott, like space and time itself was bent and different universes connected with each other, causing metal head Scott to end up in our world, it's like the moistverse, but for Tom Scott variants, scottverse?

Wow, I never knew Tom Scott went to York University, but I went to York University's Norwegian Study Centre with my English class, so that's quite fun!

He is just so well spoken. A natural.

I love Tom scott

Mom, can we have Tom Scott? We have Tom Scott at home Tom Scott at home:

I feel like tom scott has been everywhere and we just don't know it yet

He has really good presentation skills, I hope he starts a KZread channel talking about random topics

The charisma he has is so incredible

Once a nice guy, always a nice guy. 👍

Judging by the quality of the video alone, it looks like it is from the early 90s rather than the late 2000s.

A born conveyor of information in a formal yet instructive way.

Was this during his university president tenure? The one where he ran for the election as a pirate.

0:19 Wow! Look at that ponytail!

It amazes me how some people are naturally comfortable with cameras. He sounds like tv reporter, or having own yt channel already for years..

The way he talks and carry’s himself is enchanting as hell, supervillain vibes

he looks like he could do youtube as a job

@me_n_the_boys_lookin_for_beans

Жыл бұрын

i know right, he should start a channel or something, he’s got that voice that could just explain things so well

@FictionWriter95

Жыл бұрын

Nah I don't think he'd have much traction ;)

When your sound is iconic but your style adapts to the times:

HIS HAIR WAS AMAZING

why does he look older in 2009

Yarrr mad capn tom, pirates know best not to harm nobody

Historical content right here!

i love this guy, he hasnt changed abit because of youtube, his mannerisms are identical now and then

He aged pretty quickly.

aha! so him saying thirty like "thirdy" isn't americanisation, he just always talked like that!

@pastorofmuppets8834

Жыл бұрын

He sounded a bit Australian at times during this

Can't believe how at the same time he was helping Jay Foreman create the intro for the Unfinished London series

The trim is outrageous!

Unfortunately, he died. And Tom Scott was no longer real ever since.

@deeznuts727

Жыл бұрын

😔

One take, as usual.

Tom Scott has is the most Tom Scott character I have ever seen.

The turn to reveal that ponytail was crazy

There's no way he didn't get beaten in highschool

This seems illegal

@myleslos9658

3 жыл бұрын

this is illegal

@iriscandy6377

3 жыл бұрын

@@myleslos9658 thank you sir

@ijemand5672

3 жыл бұрын

What exactly?

@myleslos9658

3 жыл бұрын

@@ijemand5672 the fact that we are allowed to watch this video ofcourse

@ijemand5672

3 жыл бұрын

@@myleslos9658 why

Nice one man! Rocking the long hair!

this is great. thanks.

Let’s be honest... Tom has turned himself into a huge meme Like I swear he has to know by now!!