Caddicarus

Jim "Caddy" Caddick (born June 19, 1994 in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England), known primarily by his username Caddicarus, is a video game reviewer. He's lived in Hereford, England since 2016. 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. He remains active and some of his favourite videos to make are ones ripping on Peppa Pig.

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 Rascal Racers, originally an "audition tape" to get into NormalBoots, his channel started to rise in popularity.

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.

On February 10, 2016, Caddy announced to rebrand his series to gain more control to his upload schedule cancelling Caddy's Retrospectives, Tinker Time and Drive-Thru Reviews respectively, along with The Caddicarus Show becoming weekly. This would be the first major update to the Caddicarus channel. In January 2017, Caddy discontinued Current Quickies since he had grown tired of the formula and launched a new show simply called Caddy, which covers new games, drum covers and various other gaming topics. In August 1st, 2018, when 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.

From the start of 2020, The Caddicarus Show was no longer uploaded on a set weekly schedule and instead is released on a rough schedule to allow for Caddy to put more time and effort into the videos. Videos are now uploaded every 2-4 weeks.

However in 2021, his channel took a 3 month hiatus because Caddy is having an issue building his new PC which caused £7540 ($10,000).

Current Shows

 * The Caddicarus Show

Special Shows
 * Cadvent Calendar (2016 Christmas Special)
 * Badvent Calendar (2018 Christmas Special)
 * Bandicoot Month (Annual Show)

Former Shows

 * Current Quickies (cancelled in 2017 due to the series being way too formulated)
 * Caddy's Retropectives (cancelled in 2016 to have a more controlled schedule of upload times)
 * Tinker Time (same reason)
 * Drive Thru Reviews (same reason)
 * H.O.P (Hands on Preview) (same reason)
 * The Puppicarus Show (cancelled due to the negative reception)
 * Today's Special (only lasted a single episode)
 * Caddy's Top Ten (was absorbed into the Caddicarus Show in January 2017)
 * Caddy's Film Fridays/CINEMAGGOTS (stopped due to Cerys' busy work)
 * The Caddy Show (stopped in 2020 due to Caddy majorly changing his upload schedule)

Secondary Channel (Caddy Plays (formerly Caddy's Conundrums))
*Note: As of May 2019, His second channel was renamed to Caddy Plays which will become his let's play channel.
 * Drive Thru Reviews (later moved to his main channel after his Resident Evil HD Review, however it was later cancelled to have a more controlled schedule of upload times. The retooling of Conundrums saw the loss of the first 9 episodes, including a few extra videos that has since not been archived)
 * Regarding...
 * Caddy's Conundrumming (later included in his show Caddy on his main channel)
 * Caddy Cussbottom (A one-time video where he rants about tin cans whilst walking in the countryside)
 * NOSTALGIACAD (Caddy's old random videos from before he became popular)

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 girlfriend Cerys and helps to look after her 3 children (Amy, Phoebe, and Chloe, the latter of them doesn't appear in videos as much), which caused fans to give him the nickname "Daddicarus" or "Daddy Caddy"
 * Although Caddicarus's favourite console is the Playstation, he owns a wide variety of consoles.
 * Bloodborne is Caddicarus's favourite video game.