Liquid

Alfie Clanford † (October 11, 2010 - November 20, 2022 [aged 12]), better known online as Liquid or liquid_yt_fn, was a British YouTuber and Fortnite player known for his Fortnite content and his relationship with Tabor Hill. He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, a type of cancer in blood cells, in 2020. He unfortunately passed away from the cancer in November 2022.
== History ==
Alfie created his channel on May 19, 2019. He would upload his first video 6 months later, a video of him playing with a Thomas and Friends Skarloey diecast. Alfie would then post Thomas and/or train related videos for another 4 months until he'd post a video of him playing the Roblox game Piggy. His Fortnite content officially started when he posted a video were Alfie thanks his brother James for an emote. This was around the time were he was diagnosed with cancer. Alfie's content then shifted to Fortnite in June 2021 were he played with Fortnite streamer Muselk. Alfie would also play with the likes of Lachlan, LazarBeam, and infamously Tabor Hill (see below).
Alfie's last video on the channel and before his untimely death was uploaded on August 17, 2021, where Alfie showed his locker in Fortnite. In the description of the video, Alfie express interest in doing skin reviews, but "I always watch Tabor's on YouTube whilst having breakfast and before I turn on the PS5." The other videos were him doing lives playing Fortnite.
== Relationship with Tabor Hill ==
Alfie and Tabor's friendship starts in June of 2021, were Tabor gets an email from Your One Wish, a British charity, stating that Alfie "is desperate" to have a game of Fortnite with him and his family. Tabor accepts, and they play hours and hours of Fortnite. Alfie's dad mentions how Alfie's dream was to hit 1k subscribers on YouTube. After Tabor uploaded a video of them playing, Alfie's channel hit 1 thousand subs in a short amount of time. Alfie's dad recorded him reacting to his milestone and sent it to Tabor. Soon after, a member of Your One Wish emailed Tabor thanking him for making Alfie's dream come true. By Christmas time, Alfie's dad said that they would appreciate if Tabor's audience send in Christmas cards, of which many British subscribers popped in and Sent Alfie their own cards.
On October of 2022, Alfie's dad (Ben) tweeted that "its not looking good" for Alfie. His birthday was around the corner and Ben hadn't told Alfie as he wanted him to enjoy his birthday. Ben said he would appreciate again if people sent birthday cards to Alfie to let him know that people are thinking of him. When Alfie turned 12, people practically all around the world gave him so many cards for him, roughly over 300. Unfortunately, Tabor was talking to Alfie about a recent live event from Fortnite and that he was wondering if Alfie could watch together. Little did he know, that would be the last time they played with each other. Ben announced Alfie's death not soon after.
== Death ==
On Christmas Day of 2020, Alfie was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, a type of cancer found in the myeloid line of blood cells, characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal cells that build up in the bone marrow and blood and interfere with normal blood cell production.
By October of 2022, Alfie's health deteriorated. And Unfortunately, on November 20, 2022 roughly before 3pm, Alfie passed away peacefully in his sleep. He was 12, and leaves behind his parents, siblings, and friends and fans he met along the way.
Tabor Hill made a 21 minute video talking about him and Alfie's relationship and played some clips of him and Alfie playing Fortnite together. Before he passed, his channel was at 9.28 thousand subs. After the announcement, it skyrocketed to ~11600.
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:British YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2019
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