Vincent Thomas
@vincentthomasyt
Language: EnglishCountry not available2 months old
- Persona: Vincent Thomas · Retired professional · Senior
- Retail history
- Defunct brands
- Nostalgia
- Lost stores
- Department stores
- Electronics retail
- Restaurant chains
- Subscribers
- 2.14K
- Total views
- 293K
- Videos
- 37
Stats updated Stats from YouTube
Growth
Subscribers · daily totals we stored, UTC days
Show the numbers
| Day (UTC) | Subscribers |
|---|---|
| Nov 3, 2026 | 2,140 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | 2,130 |
| Nov 1, 2026 | 2,120 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2,100 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | 2,080 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | 2,060 |
| Oct 28, 2026 | 2,040 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | 2,020 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | 1,990 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 1,960 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1,930 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 1,910 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | 1,870 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 1,860 |
Top videos
Most viewed
Length 21:05I Sold TVs for 40 Years. Here's What Really Happened to Zenith and RCA
72.7K views
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Length 54:16$733 Million in Sales. Then Two Guys Closed Every Store on Purpose
46.4K views
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Length 36:48$720 Million in Sales. Then Korvettes Closed for Good on Christmas Eve
15.3K views
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Length 20:43I Sold Electronics for 40 Years. Crazy Eddie Was the Biggest Fraud I Ever Saw
12.9K views
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Length 20:33I Sold Electronics for 40 Years. Circuit City Made the Worst Mistake I Ever Saw
11.7K views
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Length 20:26I Sold Electronics for 40 Years. Here’s What Really Happened to RadioShack
11.1K views
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Latest videos
Newest first
Length 33:55$11 Billion. Then Macy’s Erased Marshall Field’s and the Stores You Loved
374 views
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Length 32:33$800 Million for Zayre. Then Ames Closed Every Store
2.83K views
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Length 32:33I Sold TVs for 40 Years. Here’s What Really Happened to the Console TV
3.42K views
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Length 32:32I Sold TVs for 40 Years. Here’s Why Color TV Took So Long
6.45K views
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Length 32:48I Sold Electronics for 40 Years. Here’s What Really Happened to Betamax
3.45K views
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Length 32:28I Sold TVs for 40 Years. Here’s What Really Happened to the TV Repairman
4.57K views
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How they sell it
- 1Video
- 2Descriptionstore link in the description
- 3Landing pageGumroad · askvincentthomas.com
- 4CheckoutGumroad
- Store link in 48% of recent descriptions
- Link in descriptions since Oct 9, 2026
- Entry points: the About page, the description body
Analysis
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Persona
Vincent Thomas
Retired professional · Senior · Male · Shown in front of the store or product being discussed
- Niche
Rise and fall of lost American stores, restaurants and brands
- Audience
Older Americans, inferred as roughly 50 and up, who remember the stores, restaurants and brands covered and enjoy nostalgic business history told in plain words.
- Avatar
- Realistic avatar
- A photorealistic older man with swept-back white hair, a rust-orange cardigan and a white collared shirt, pointing at a store or product. The avatar shows him seated in a wood-paneled room with framed photos.
- Format
One defunct brand per video, about 20–35 minutes: a personal anecdote hook, the company's founding and peak, then its decline as seen from the salesman's side, closing on the anecdote.
- Content pillars
- Department store and discount chain collapses
- Defunct electronics and TV brands
- Lost restaurant chains
- 1970s nostalgia
- Appliance buying advice
- Title patterns
- I Sold [Electronics/TVs] for 40 Years. Here’s What Really Happened to [Brand]
- $[X] Billion in Sales. Then [Brand] Closed Every Store
- Why [Brand] Nearly Disappeared (I'm 74, I Was There)
- What Happened to [X]? | [Hook fact]
- Thumbnails
The same older man at left pointing at a rendered storefront or product, with large yellow and white caps text such as "[BRAND] WHAT HAPPENED?" on a blue-sky or dark background.
Their thumbnails, most viewed first
- Why it works
- The persona's 40-year salesman backstory appears in the about text, titles and every description
- One title and thumbnail formula covers the recent run; the 4 top thumbnails all use "WHAT HAPPENED?" or "WHAT KILLED THEM?"
- Top video (Zenith and RCA, 63,816 views) used the "I Sold TVs for 40 Years" formula; it is 1 of 4 formula videos in the top 5
- Output is about 5 uploads a week, with 1,860 subscribers and 198,940 total views in about 10 weeks
- Each video opens with a personal story and closes by returning to it, a repeatable retention structure
Where the channel points
Links from the channel’s About page and its video descriptions.
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