Alex

Not to be confused with Alex Marriott (Emmerdale)

Marriott just minutes before walking into a bolt

### Appears in

Sam and Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up, V-Tech Toy Showcases, Emmerdale, Jeep Lonely Boy, Eagleman: the Animated Series

### Debut

Sam and Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up (As himself)

Alexander James Marriott, professionally known as mazroid, etc, was a popular YouTuber and philanthropist. He was well known for his kindness, niche references, and grooming allegations. Beginning his career in 2016 under the pseudonym CarrotAndCo, his work permeated the online world, for better or for worse. Within his lifetime, he released two albums: Anemoia (2021) and Smile Garden (2021). He was working on his third album, *Self Improvement Syndrome*, before he was tragically hit by a bolt at the age of 15; he was 27 years old.

## Life and career

### 2007-2016: 8 and a half years well wasted

Alex fell out of his mother's womb slightly early on October 2nd 2007, and not too long after became obsessed with music, photobombing, and goth girls. BBC news commented on his talent at just age 2, saying his compositions were "barely listenable". This would inspire him to write the hit song: "Time for you to go to bed"; the royalties of which would keep him relatively wealthy for the remainder of his life.

Marriott would spend his free time going to school and pretending he really liked dinosaurs to impress that one kid, diggers to impress another, and football to impress everyone, but he genuinely had no clue what was going on. This would be the root of his pathological lying problem, and frequent identity changes. He was also scared of shavers at the hairdressers' and would force the poor women to cut his hair with scissors: number two all the way around.

### 2016-2020: Pre-COVID/Tweenager arc

Alex would start a so-called YouTube "channel" in late 2016, with its name shifting around until it eventually settled on CarrotAndCo. He would then make "lolrandom" videos with low to very low quality, then transitioning to mobile gaming content with a screen so crusty you could hear the friction through the microphone. In 2018 and 2019 he would make infrequent "content" with his "friends" from school, attempting to kickstart the YouTuber group fantasy that all kids have these days - however, he was different. While they made Juice WRLD Fortnite edits, Marriott would clone his voice with AI (which thankfully, never caught on) and attempt to go viral with his quirky "I'm a potato!" sense of humour. In 2019 he left primary school and acquired a scholarship at the prestigious *My Singing Monsters* college, where he could continue his studies, would make friends along the way, and could hone his skills for the purpose of completing his ultimate quest - taking down big pharma.

But then the funniest thing happened.

### 2020: We all know what happened.

By March of 2020, the world had closed down. Marriott couldn't possibly continue with his studies from home, especially with his camera and microphone being conveniently broken all of the time, so he had to wait for the perfect time to strike. You see, big pharma's munchkins had tracked Marriott down and had caught onto his ambition, and thus released an untested chemical weapon from a laboratory in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Fortunately, and unfortunately, the virus worked so well that it quickly killed its captor, Dexter Louis McPherson. This may have temporarily stopped Marriott in his efforts, but it also stopped big pharma as they had to train McPherson's replacement.

In the meantime, Alex would make minecraft videos on his newly-purchased computer, enter some remix competition, and notably develop an obsession with rare minecraft accounts, spending too much money rebuying a game he already owned - 9 times. Luckily, it was through this unhealthy habit that he met Xeaglak, who he would later marry, and collaborate with a multitude of times artistically, and in their collective hatred for big pharma. 2020 would also see the creation of MooBlock, and two new identities, forged in flame: ascii (his first solely-musical endeavour), and yaoch (a more calculated attempt at minecraft videos, still unfunny).