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Country England
Join Date September 10, 2011
YT Channel YT

For the web series, see The Caddicarus Show.

Jim Lazarus "Caddy" Caddick[1] (born James Caddick, June 19, 1994 in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England), known primarily by his username Caddicarus, is an English YouTube personality who currently creates The Caddicarus Show - long-form videos full of zany writing and editing where he takes a look at multiple games under one broad topic.

He's lived in Hereford, England since 2016 with his fianceé Cerys Mackay and her three daughters. Despite reviewing both modern and retro games, Caddy has shown a particular preference for games of the PlayStation 1 generation - his favourite of which being Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, which inspired him to have Abe's hand scars tattooed on his hands in 2015. His all-time favorite game is Bloodborne.

His YouTube page can be found here.

History[]

Caddicarus created his YouTube channel on September 10, 2011. Before The Caddicarus Show, he created random skits and music videos similar to that of Tobuscus, Caddy's main inspiration at the time. After he posted his first review on Rascal Racers - originally an "audition tape" to get into NormalBoots - his channel started to rise in popularity.

In March 2013, Caddy announced he was going to be part of a group of gaming YouTubers and website called Hidden Block, which he would be part of until the unofficial end of the website and group at the end of 2018. In August 2013, he started a second channel, Caddy's Conundrums, for videos he deemed not appropriate for his main channel. The channel became abandoned in 2017 due to the new Wednesday show Caddy encompassing anything that the second channel offered. However, on May 6th, 2019, Caddy officially announced that the second channel would be converted into a let's play channel called Caddy Plays. After one playthrough of the N. Sane Trilogy version of Crash Bandicoot, the channel became a stream archive which it remains as to this day.

On February 10, 2016, Caddy uploaded an update video titled "I'm Starting Over - A Caddicarus Update", in which he announced the first major retool the channel ever received. Wanting to de-clutter his channel of many shows, he canceled Caddy's Retrospectives, Tinker Time and Drive-Thru Reviews[2], and The Caddicarus Show became weekly, uploading every Sunday. Current Quickies became weekly as well, uploading every Wednesday, and Caddy's Film Fridays - later CINEMAGGOTS - was introduced. Later in January 2017, Caddy discontinued Current Quickies since he had grown tired of the formula and launched a new show simply called The Caddy Show, which covered new games, drum covers and various other gaming topics.

The channel's second major retool began to slowly roll out through late 2018 and into 2019. On August 1st, 2018, Caddy announced that The Caddicarus Show would undergo major changes, such as getting moved to Saturday (for no disclosed reason) and the removal of the Slaughter or Salvage verdict.[3] From this point on, episodes would gradually become longer and begin covering more experimental topics. Another update video was uploaded in November 2018, where he announced his intention to return to one upload a week, focusing solely on The Caddicarus Show.[4] In 2019, The Caddy Show would slowly be phased out as modern games would start being covered on The Caddicarus Show. Caddy was ultimately canceled in late 2019, just before the channel's 2020 retool.

The channel's third, current, and most significant retool took place in January 2020, when The Caddicarus Show was rebooted entirely, now no longer focused on deep critique and analysis on a singular game. Instead, they are focused on long videos about a broader set of video games or other video game-related topics with limited analysis and a focus on jokes rather than serious critique. Videos are no longer uploaded on a set weekly schedule and instead released on a rough schedule to allow for Caddy to put more time and effort into the videos. In 2020, videos were uploaded every 2-4 weeks, but this rough schedule became even looser in 2021 and 2022 - which only saw 6 and 5 uploads respectively.

At the beginning of 2021, his channel took a 3 month hiatus because Caddy was having an issue building his new PC which ended up costing £7540 ($10,000 (or, to be accurate, $9543.64)). [5] In 2022, the Caddicarus channel finally reached 1 million subscribers.

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Trivia[]

  • After Caddicarus made a video about Peppa Pig, the BBC made a news article about YouTube channels exploiting famous characters like these for views. While unconfirmed, Caddicarus theorises that the news article was made because of his video on Peppa Pig.
  • Caddicarus currently lives with his fiancée Cerys and helps to look after her three children (Amy, Phoebe, and Chloe, the latter of whom doesn't appear in videos as much), which has caused fans to give him the nickname "Daddicarus" or "Daddy Caddy".
  • Caddicarus informally changed his name from James to Jim on December 11th, 2016 due to disliking the name James for personal reasons.[7] On New Years' Day 2022, he mentioned wanting to legally change his name.[8] In April 2023, he officially and legally got his name changed to Jim Lazarus Caddick.[9]
  • Although Caddicarus's favourite console is the PlayStation 1, he owns a wide variety of consoles.
  • Bloodborne is Caddicarus's favourite video game.
  • Caddy is a teetotaler.[10][11][12]
  • Caddy has ADHD.[13]

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