Whatever Happened to Tom's Hoodie?: Tom Scott at Thinking Digital 2013 

It's brilliant how he took the hoodie off, and beneath it was a red shirt. Tom Scott is evolving

This video should've been named Hoodie.mp4

And this is when ***** started wearing his red tshirts. *IN EVERY VIDEO*

Wow, I've never seen Tom so close to breaking down and crying.

I just cried for a hoodie

His body language changed so fast when that hoodie started to burn.

Tom after the camera goes off: I'm cold, I wish I had a hoodie with me.

... in which Tom nearly sets himself on fire while sharing an emotional moment. :)

This video hurts me more than it should

Thanks, Colin! And I'm glad to hear the safety tie's still going strong... I did wonder, when the lighter wouldn't catch, whether there was going to be a completely different punchline to this!

Now he keeps the ashes of it. Who said it cannot be compressed?

+Tom Scott - So can we expect to see you in 2023 burning that red shirt, or do you just constantly own some inordinate number of identical red shirts?

I feel like I just watched a funeral. You somehow made me sentimental over a hoodie I've never seen before, but also gave me a sense of closure about its time on Earth being over.

That was quite strange for me to watch as although I do have lots of stuff I keep etc could I burn my safety shirt n tie (the Colin furze version of toms hoodie sort of) I don't no if I could but was fun watching you try n light the paraffin as for a moment it was like the hoodie would not let itself be burnt. Good work Tom.

New thing! My talk from Thinking Digital this year, "Whatever Happened to Tom's Hoodie?". At eight minutes, it's longer than my usual stuff, but hopefully the payoff's worth it.

In another 10 years: "What ever happened to Tom's Red T-Shirt?"

Just imagine the camera stopped recording after one minute and nobody would have noticed it.

I never thought I would be tearing up over someone else's hoodie. X'3

+Tom Scott - You should have gone a step further, and given your "Nordics" hoodie a Viking funeral. You missed the boat!

That took balls, dude. Not sure I could have done it. Respect.

i've seen nothing more awkward than Tom Scott lighting a paraffin fire

😢 that must have been emotional once the camera was turned off

I don't think I could have done what Tom did. For me, it's not a hoodie, but my library. Yes, it does mean I have to pack dozens of boxes when moving AND have the shelf spare to store it. But those books got me through the hardest and darkest parts of my life. Getting an ebook and buying digital copies of the books wouldn't be the same. There's something in the feel, the smell, and the experience of reading one of those books that I cannot get anywhere else. So half my office is full of book shelves. Today, I add the odd comic or novel, but most of my "reading" is through audiobooks and podcasts due to time constraints. Reading one of those books is a real treat, and not one I can see myself giving up willingly.

As a sentimental hoarder this was painful to watch but actually helped me.

Yeah I couldn't have done that

Am I the only one slightly nervous about how close the paraffin is to the fire? Edit: Oh, thank god, he moved it :>

u can burn hoodie.mp4 also to a DVD lols

And from then on, he replaced that hoodie with his t-shirt.

It feels weird that that hoody is only 15 days older than me. Oh I'm having a time crisis about how fast time is now

You shouldve gave the nordic hoodie a proper viking funeral since it was nordic.

Probably could've sold on eBay for over $1000 to some fan.

That was quite sentimental. An unusual talk amongst the unusual talks you give. Really nice.

Everybody in the audience was like thinking "For heaven's sake, PUT THE CANISTER AWAY!"

That moment you remember that you talked about Tom Scott's hoodie in your GCSE English Exam...

This is the 60 minute mark in your movie.

And this was how gray-hoodie Tom became red-shirt Tom

I've recently become detached from "stuff", and while I haven't actually burned anything down to prove my point, I get the sentiment. Seeing you struggle with setting fire to that hoodie (literally and figuratively) was confronting. I used to struggle like that with every single thing I owned, when it was time to get rid of it. It's a lot easier for me now, because indeed you can take photos of it, film its story, whatever. Digitising the world, one hoodie at a time.

He loves red tees, but buys more on a regular basis. If he's in a grey hoodie, it's this one.

He has such a way of telling stories. I had an emotional attachment to that hoodie at the end

wow hes 29/30? he looks so much younger.

Being a student at Newcastle, I'm grateful I can go to the site of the hoodie's ashes and pay my respects.

Every so often I come back to this video, usually after watching some Technical Difficulties which reminds me, in a weird sort of paying my respects. It not only lives on in this digital format but in the memory of people who watch it.

"I've been Tom Scott" hit me in feels

I too have a coat that has stayed with me for a good 7-ish years, from middleschool, to highschool graduation being around the corner. However, mine still has several more years to go, and has been with me in many pictures. I have worn it during excursions with foreign exchange students, at many events that I have attended, on all of my international trips, and it will continue to be with me when I do homestay over in the U.K. I too, will probably wear it into ruin, and eventually, I will also need to give it up. This video really hits home with me, as I am sure it does to many others.

Tom: "ONE TAKE ONE TAKE!"

That’s Newcastle upon Tyne! I used to live by there by the river- closer to the high level bridge on the Gateshead side. One love for Geordies.

soon you'll have to burn that red shirt of yours too; it's like the only thing you wear :P

07:42 "I've been Tom Scott" You are always Tom Scott, Tom

That's actually an amazing video. It not only stores the hoodie. It stores you as an amazingly interesting human being. I've never met you in person, I probably won't have the ability, but I have the ability to watch your videos, and this is awesome as I feel like I know you! Like the IRL level of knowing you :D Damn, I wish you could be my scientific adviser...

Started talking about the storage of digital data. Finished with a complete understanding of the meaning of life.

where can I download hoodie.mp4?

I legitimately cried after watching this... I don't want to ever miss the ones I love, and only be able to see them digitally. I want to hold my pets and family and friends forever, but I know I'll never be able to. God I hate life sometimes

So... Seven years later. How many times have you pulled this up to have another look? Do you miss it?

That was sad, beautiful, emotional, and uniquely impressive mate!

this is especially touching now that i'm watching this on new year's morning. perhaps i'll look back upon this message in a year's time and reminisce on how things changed.. and possibly how they remained just the same

2022 - Tom Scott burns his red shirt and wears a Vest instead Rest In Peace Hoodie

Starving kids in africa could have eaten that petrol.

They laughed right over the climax of the speech

“Sorry, Tom. I forgot to press ‘record’. Can we just go again?”

RIP to toms hoodie

Watching Tom trying to light a fire with an open can of parafin so close nearly gave me a panic attack

I never thought that a hoodie could bring a tear to my eye.

This was more emotional then any character death in any media whatsoever, and i met this hoodie about ten minutes ago

This was wonderful. Thank you.

i think this will be the one and only tom scott video that has made me cry. i finished the video about two minutes ago now, and i am still very teary-eyed.

that hit me in the feels. Really interesting video, but sad too. what you did was awesome Tom.

This is a beautiful story Tom! You are brilliant!

quite emotional watching this

Tom: **starts talking** Me through the entire video: don't burn the hoodie don't burn the hoodie don't burn the hoodie dONT BURN THE HOODIE

Brilliant. I started watching a few weeks ago and this video is inspirational. I struggle with letting go of anything. I have the memories, but always fear I would forget, thus I hold onto an object indefinitely. My garage is shelves and shelves of my life and my kid's life. I got to find a way like you Tom to let go and archive my memories so they are always there for me later.

I've needed to see this. I've had 'stuff' with me for years and several moves that are only a part of my past. Need to go through them one last time to digitize and back up what I can and let go of the 'stuff'

this is easily one of the best Tom Scott videos out there

This made me cry a little, just like it seemed to for Tom.

I felt really sad watching this. It seemed like a justification of a beautiful theory that you couldn't truly believe in. I understand your point and it's a very interesting idea, but I can't quite agree with it. I have to know, did you feel a sense of loss? Or was that balanced by the sense of accomplishing something unusual?

This video convinced me to get rid of a lot of old stuff I hold on to only for sentimental reasons. Thanks.

Cue Tom Scott stomping on the hoodie to put the fire out and patching it up after the cameras go off

Why did I just get emotionally attached to a hoodie that's not even mine

I cannot describe how this video make me feel. I know this channel for a few days now and that ending was hittin' hard

Still a very special video amidst everything that Tom has uploaded on the channel. I feel like this, is where Tom Scott is born, as the guy with a red shirt that does interesting and at times mind blowing videos on RU-vid

Starving kids in Africa could've eaten that hoodie

My mother has been teaching me this since I was very small. Her philosophy was always, take a picture and throw it away. All throughout high school I collaged bits of my life onto my bedroom door: movie tickets, pictures, scraps of fabric from things I made, notes written in a coded alphabet, ect. When it finally came time to move out of my parents house and out of my college dorm and into my own proper apartment, I decided to take a video of the door explaining some of the things on it, and then I took it all down and threw 95% of it away. So I guess that video is now my digital door.

I used to live just along from there! I walked along there to work everyday for 6 years!

no, i refuse. you can not digitalize a hoodie and you never will be able to. this is a line we have to draw. the digital world has it's benefits but it can not substitute the real world. memories, of course. but not real things. if you say otherwise, think about digitalizing people. this might sound stupid, but the definition is important.

You are stronger than I could ever be. The _only_ reason I got rid of the MCR jacket i'd had since I was 15ish, when I was 26, was that nothing I did could make it fit in my bags back from Germany. Absolutely nothing. It had been patched several times, there was nothing left to sew the patch to. It was in just the same sorry state as your nordics hoodie. I had to throw it away. And it devastated me. I took last pictures with it, and I think one last video. And then I threw it away. But I didn't have a choice. I wouldn't have done it otherwise. It's so emotional seeing this, and remembering my beloved jacket. Thank you

Not to disrespect Tom, because I really do respect him, and I really do get the point of this video, but I really hate all this "theres no need for physical objects" nonsense. Having a digital backup of a prized momento *is in no way like having the real object*. Having a real object is much more than just having a memory of that object, or a place/person/time you associate with it. The way the object feels, the shape in your hand, the way it smells, a sound it makes, the way it reflects or refracts the light - these are all things *that you only get by actually having the object*. No digitized backup, at this point in time, can come close to having as much sentimental value as the object itself. Tom is a tech guy, and thats where his sentimental side is too, which I totally understand, but it is absurd to think that you can transfer your sentimentality for a real object onto a digitization of that object. You can't. You might become attached to that backup, because it reminds you of the object, but the digitization itself can never have as much value as the original object did. Also, I am not saying you cannot become sentimental about digital files. I have quite a few files on my PC that I cherish as much as many of my physical objects. My point is that you cannot take a photo of a prized object, and then destroy the object itself without losing anything. Don't go destroying all your stuff just because you can take photos of it, people. That is utter madness. Obviously being overly sentimental, or being a hoarder, can be a big problem - but like anything, there is a healthy middle ground. Keep things that are important to you.

Is this Tom Scott describing NFTSs back in 2013? what a visionary

All I could think, over and over, while he shared this deeply personal moment with us, was "FOR GODS SAKE, MOVE THE BLOODY PARAFFIN SOMEWHERE SAFE YOU MORON!"

This is a brilliant video on how emotions and technology connect. More relevant today

a digital file is just a memory, it is a pale shadow of the original. When my parents passed I realized that so much experience was forever lost. when it came time to burn his hoodie Tom had to suppress his desire to save it because he knows that the experience of the actual item is so much more than a digital representation.

I too, have a grey hoody that is very tattered, worn, and has been in my possession for many years (maybe six or seven?) I'm currently looking to get a new zipper for it to replace the one that's currently broken, and will probably get the stitching on it fixed. Don't know that I could actually get rid of it at this point, sorry Tom.

This is one of the saddest things i have every watched in my life. :(

As an incredibly sentimental person myself, watching him do this really hit me, I don't know if I could ever do this with something that important to me

7:09 That speech was loaded with comedy, but the words themselves made me tear up. Beautifully spoken. And gee, I did always wonder what happened to that shirt.

"To preserve data you have to destroy it"

THIS IS JUST SO EMOTIONAL, IT MADE ME CRY MORE THAN WHEN I WATCHED "RAAZI".

I always attach my emotions and memories to physical things... I could never ever burn something like that!

Tom is like a cartoon character - always wearing the exact same clothes :D :D btw awesome video. I don't think I should have, but I almost teared up there :D :D

r.i.p. physical hoody, may your digital version be forever loved

The memory of it will be a blessing.

This was surprisingly emotional