Why This Old Tony’s Videos Work

The Star of the Show:

Channels featured in this video, in no particular order:

[ThisOldTony]

if it weren't for the green sweater I would've sworn I was watching myself!
next time i take a 7 month break... you're hired!

[seventytwo]

Tony has the right mix of knowledge, production values, entertainment, and Dad jokes. Definitely one of my favorite YouTubers. Also a great breakdown of his style, in what can be a pretty bland tubeverse, TOT is one of the standout channels.

[RotarySMP]

You channelled your inner Tony really well! Nice one.
Edit... now further into watching, this video is far better than just the tribute. Thanks for putting in the huge effort to make it.

[eojsleen]

Nice homage to Tony. And by the way, It was sure nice to see a new video from him come out over the weekend. I was afraid we had lost him forever. All is right with the world again! You're no slouch with video either.

[doaimanariroll]

As tradie studying to become a design and tech tech teacher. A move partly inspired by T.o.T. I want to add that his teaching skills through story telling and anticipation are second to none.

He explains the problem, then why you should care about the problem and then builds iterations of the solutions to the problem to give a very intuitive understanding of the current final solution.

In a very round about, yet succinct. Simply explained, but not condescending story that builds up anticipation to the answer while inserting hidden knowledge with enough humour to keep you from knowing that your learning. He’s brilliant.

[douglasharley]

i am convinced that this old tony is genius, like an irl genius, so he makes being his hilarious and endlessly competent helpful self look effortless...thanks for explaining exactly why it's actually difficult. this was an amazing homage to the master, *respect!*

[morsecodereviews]

I stumbled across this 2 years too late to be on time for the party. But hey, I'd be remiss if I didn't say this was one heck of a wild ride. 11/10 thoroughly enjoyable and inciteful. I damn near shed a tear seeing my childhood buddies again Norm and Tim😁

[daveys]

I think you’ve done a super-thorough analysis on Tony’s videos here and kept true to Tony’s style throughout. Well done! I’ve been a fan of Tony for a while and I just really like the content, the pace, the gags and the editing style of his output. Watching the older videos shows how the techniques have become more established over time, to the point that current videos are a real joy to watch. For me, it’s what keeps me watching YouTube when I really should be doing something more productive.

[paulelmore]

One of the best videos I've seen on YouTube! I'm a die-hard TOT fan (and every other creator referenced apparently) but this one had me laughing out loud. Perfect inflection, timing, cuts, hand waves, dad jokes, and cinematography. If imitation is the greatest dorm of flattery, Tony is feeling amazing right now. Obviously, the only option I have now is to subscribe to your channel and binge watch everything you've made. Looking forward to it. Thanks for making my day!

[CreatingWithJackPines]

I am totally blown away at the quality, breadth, and depth of this tribute and breakdown of This Old Tony! I had only hoped to one day be mildly entertaining and educative about blacksmithing here on YouTube. You inspire me, sir, and you now have another subscriber as I’ll be studying your study of creators.

[cowboybarbaryn]

The camera work and shot composition is absolutely stellar between both this and your previous video. I’ve recently started to appreciate cinematography more than I have in the past, and you’re definitely giving me a lot to chew on thank you.

[JD-ubic]

I genuinely assumed I was watching a huge channel until the end when I tried to find you to look for more videos, couldnt believe your sub count. This was amazing keep it up!!!

[robdavy]

This video is amazing! The work that went into this, the research, everything, wow!

[fboshyy]

Tony's stuff works because everything about it reflects what's great about great dad's..unassuming, quiet, intelligent, self effacing and over delivered not over sold.
They are, in every way, quietly wonderful.

[AJBK]

I would describe Clickspring as Museum Quality where as TOT is TOT quality

[dr_regularlove]

I'm about halfway through this and it's incredible. I've been a fan of This Old Tony since I started building my CNC machine a couple years ago and started taking a greater interest in machining (the CNC was for my woodwork, but may end up being a gateway drug). I love his work and you're nailing it here. Got a few good laughs out of this one so far.

An aside, my favorite Tony bit I've seen so far has got to be his dog getting upset when someone says "eBay". I still think about that, and I'm half tempted to teach my dogs "speak" but with the command "eBay" instead.

[johnherrington]

The fact that I know just about all of the channels you referenced in this video tells me one sad fact… I watch entirely too much YouTube.

[arminth]

What a masterpiece and a great tribute to my most favorite YT channel!
No clue what your channel is actually about but I immediately had to subscribe!

P. S. : you definetly have to shorten your fingernails to really sound like Tony! 😁

[RobertMilesAI]

Before finishing the video, I'll say I'm often amazed by the cinematography of Laura Kampf's work. Some really interesting shots and great integration of music and diegetic text

[threeriversforge]

That was fantastic. I'm getting a goodly bit of pressure to do some blacksmithing videos because apparently there aren't enough blacksmiths already hammering away on youtube. Of course, TOT's style appeals to me more than I could ever put in to words and I'm very glad that you did this homage to a great creator. Wonderful content!