CarFlo

Carlo Francis, better known online as CarFlo (formerly known as joyceANDcarlo), is a Japanese-American YouTuber who enjoys making roleplay videos on Minecraft.
CarFlo likely got the idea of joining YouTube from Chrisandthemike. His channel started on July 7, 2011. His content was always primarily Minecraft, but other games were included throughout his YouTube career. CarFlo mostly stood out with his Minecraft roleplays and his collaborations with other YouTubers. His channel had a slow but steady growth rate over the years.
== Early Life ==
Carlo Francis was born on September 3rd, 1987 in Japan.Francis, 2016 https://www.facebook.com/profile/100058247642372/search/?q=BirthdayFrancis, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GIJj9PfdA8&list=PLzvUqY3DV8FafxioyGgSiLfRqF0b5NaaP&index=3"Carlo is 2 years older than me" -Foltz, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrtGlBdeatg&list=PLzvUqY3DV8FamJcVDOnKM-f6tdvpioQCl&index=66 He has a sister named Joyce. His father was in the military."My dad was never really around since he was in the military, which left me alone on most days" -Francis, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAarb5GisbE&list=PLzvUqY3DV8FamJcVDOnKM-f6tdvpioQCl&index=4 When he was young he was abandoned by his mother, which, according to him, left him with a sense of feeling insecure or undesired."I dont like talking about my mom since she ended up not being there after a certain point." -Francis, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAarb5GisbE&list=PLzvUqY3DV8FamJcVDOnKM-f6tdvpioQCl&index=4 According to Carlo, due to his upbringing he was always shy and reserved.
Carlo eventually moved to the United States when he was 10 (Circa late 1990’s). After finishing up High school in Hawaii, he went on to pursue higher education in California. In college, Carlo would meet Christopher Foltz, who was initially his chemistry lab partner.Foltz, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tXNHkRUxqc The two would start making videos together on Chris’s YouTube channel and Carlo would make appearances in Chris’s most successful series at the time “Minecraft Family”. After learning of Chris’s troubled home life regarding his father, Carlo told him he could move in with him if he ever needed to. Chris would take up his offer, after his girlfriend at the time, Lasata, persuaded him to move out.
== Content History ==
=== 2011-2012 ===
Carlo created his channel named “JoyceAndCarlo” on July 7th, 2011. Two days later he would upload his first video of him and his sister partaking in the Chubby Bunny challenge. Afterwards, Carlo would start making Minecraft lets play videos of either with him and his sister or by himself, by the later half of 2011, Chris would start appearing in his videos. By 2012, Carlo would start experimenting with the concept of Minecraft roleplays. By March 30, 2012, he debuted his first roleplay work, Life in Minecraft, which would gain popular traction immediately. While Carlo continued to work on his Life in Minecraft series, he would also keep publishing gameplay videos, Most popularly, Chris’s second alliteration of Minecraft family, which contained Chris and his uncle and aunt, as well as Carlo.
=== 2013 ===
Going into 2013, Carlo would continue working on Life in Minecraft and indulging in Chris’s Minecraft family, as well as playing general Minecraft or other games like Scribblenauts and Ace of Spades with his sister Joyce and his friends Chris, Garlian and PCarton. Chris’s Minecraft Family would end abruptly with Chris’s uncle and aunt having a child. Chris would then make his 3rd alliteration of Minecraft Family, with only Chris, his biological mother and Carlo. Carlo would leave his series Life in Minecraft unfinished after making episode 19. His most popular recreational videos during this time would be the Cops and Robbers series with Chris, Garlian and PCarton. Around august, Carlo would move into a new apartment with Chris officially being his roommate. By December of 2013, Carlo would begin to work on a new roleplay series named Minecraft Comes Alive which act as a indirect semi-sequel to the incomplete Life in Minecraft. Sometime during 2013-2014, Chris’s father was sentenced to 20 years in prison, which put some strain on their channels and activity.
=== 2014 ===
Carlo would continue regularly posting videos and working on his roleplay series Minecraft Comes Alive. By early 2014 Garlian and PCarton starting showing up less and less in Carlo and Chris’s videos, with the main reason being PCarton stopped making videos on his channel and Garlian would go on a long hiatus. Carlo would start posting Modded Minecraft videos, as well as continue being apart of Minecraft Family. He would eventually wrap up his Minecraft Comes Alive series by July with the finale episode. Immediately after finishing up his work, he would start 2 new roleplay series’ named My Friend is a Creeper and My 2nd Life. He would also start making Sims 3 content. By mid to late 2014, Carlo and Chris would meet CyaNideEPiC, the three would start creating gameplay series’ together as well as creating a roleplay series called Jurrasic Craft. By December of 2014, Carlo, Chris and Cyanide would make another roleplay series named X-Craft. Chris and Carlo would also meet Ashleyosity, she would start regularly appearing and contributing to their videos.
=== 2015 ===
Going into 2015, Carlo would continue working on Jurrasic Craft, My Friend is a Creeper, My 2nd Life and X-Craft. Chris would get married to Lasata in mid 2015. Carlo would also starting working on Minecraft Comes Alive Season 2. He would continue indulging in modded Minecraft as well as general game play videos with his friends. X-Craft would finish in march with its final episode. After X-Craft, Carlo, Chris and Cyanide would make another series named Mythsocraft, though it would quickly end with episode 5. Carlo would also make a short 2 part roleplay series of Herobrine's mansion: Minecraft Five Nights at Freddy’s. Carlo would leave Minecraft Comes Alive Season 2 unfinished. Carlo would start 2 another Minecraft Roleplay series named The Terror of Herobrine and The Last of Us. Carlo, Chris and Cyanide would leave Jurrasic Craft unfinished after 4 season and 9 episodes. The Last of Us would remain unfinished after 8 episodes. By the later half 2015, Garlian would come back from Hiatus and start appearing in videos again. In November, Carlo, and his friends, Chris, Ashleyosity, and Garlian would start a roleplay series named Yandere High School. By December, Carlo would wrap up and finish My 2nd Life with its finale episode. Cyanide would eventually stop appearing in videos, and the two channels made Chris, Carlo and Cyanide named Loft Productions, and MobileGamingLoft were shut down due to disagreements between Cyanide and Chris.
=== 2016 ===
Chris would divorce Lasata by early 2016. Carlo, Chris, Garlian and Ashleyosity would all move into the same apartment and live together. After witnessing the success of Yandere High School, the 4 picked up a routine and began investing a lot of time into it together. Carlo would continue making My Friend is a Creeper off to the side. The Terror of Herobrine would go unfinished after the release of episode 10. Intergroup conflict would start to arise within the Yandere crew, Carlo would be plagued with suffering with depression and possibly suicidal ideation. Chris in 2021 explained that Carlo wanted to be “romantically involved” with him, However community skepticism and Garlian’s story seem to make this assertion shaky and multiple types of theories have resurfaced trying to shape the situation together, but these are nothing but surmises. Garlian claimed “nothing really serious happened” and in the end it was all the result of “petty drama” that caused the group to split up. Garlian would move out and distance himself from the group after Chris and Ashley became a couple. On twitter, Chris had tweeted something along the lines of “If a friend is ever in a bad place there's nothing much you could do to help them”, Possibly referring to Carlo. By the end of 2016, the entire group split up, Chris and Ash would not longer appear in Carlo’s videos anymore. Though, Carlo continued to be friends with Garlian. Yandere High School in Carlo’s POV would be left unfinished after 2 season's and 2 episodes. Carlo would then start working on a new roleplay series named Hopes Peak High, which acted as a semi-sequel continuation to the unfinished Yandere High School. 
=== 2017-2023 ===
Though out the years following, Carlo would continue to work on Hopes Peak High as well as making occasional gaming videos with Garlian. My Friend is a Creeper would be left on hiatus and then eventually abandoned after 2 season and 9 episodes during 2017-2019. By the end of 2019, Carlo would start to work on a remake of My Friend is a Creeper. After wrapping up Hopes Peak High, Carlo would start working on a new series named Very Tsundere, which would act as a direct sequel to Hopes Peak High. Very Tsundere would be put on hiatus since 2020. By December of 2020, My Friend is a Creeper would be finished up by Carlo with its episode finale. After the Finale of My Friend is a Creeper, Carlo would start uploading less and less with the following years to come. He would move into house by the later half of 2021. Carlo would start uploading more gameplay, while creating more roleplay spinoffs, mostly off the Hopes Peak High universe.
== Reception ==
As of 2023, Carlo has 460k+ subscribers, with over 1.1K+ videos, and total channel views of over 130 million views. Carlo’s most popular works would be Yandere High School, Jurassic Craft,  and My Friend is a Creeper, with some earlier popular works on his channel being Life in Minecraft and Minecraft Comes Alive. These series’ would gain hundreds of thousands, to millions of views, and were very positively received. Garlian mentioned on his live stream, during the Yandere crew era, Carlo made the most revenue from the Yandere High School series, out of entire 4 of them.Sean, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_h-N4oOKCw&t=5880s Many people continue celebrating Carlo’s roleplay works because a large part of his fanbase grew up with them and his channel.
== Trivia ==
* He has a shiba inu.https://www.instagram.com/itscarflo/?hl=en
* Him and Chris used have a cat named Zuko that passed away during 2015-2016.
* He used to have a second channel named “Carlo Francis” in which he would upload alot of vlog and irl content. This channel has long since been deleted.
* His Minecraft skin is Link from the Legend of Zelda.
* In a deleted video, he states his height is 5’7”.Francis, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/@GoCarFlo
* He can play the Piano.
* He has a degree in Biology.
== Notes ==
* Its important to note that there is possibly more to Carlo. A lot of internet sources, both primary and secondary have eroded and have long been lost. And whatever sources are available, they very scanty and hard to come by.
== References ==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2011