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This is about the actor/player who plays Stampy. For the character, please go to Stampy.

Joseph Mark Garrett, commonly known by his online alias, stampylonghead, is an English video commentator, filmmaker and author.

Early Life

Garrett was born on 13th December 1990 in Havant, Hampshire, England. His father is a graphics artist, who later contributed to the Stampy channel artwork, merchandise and book illustrations. His stay-at-home mother, Katherine, became a moderator in his social media pages. He has two older sisters; Rachael[1][2], who is also a graphics artist and works with his dad, and Annette, who formerly ran a YouTube channel of her own, called NettyPlays, and is married to Yogscast member Martyn Littlewood. After leaving school, Garrett studied TV and video production at Southampton Solent University, and worked as a barman in a local pub.

Career

Garrett created his first Youtube channel on 3rd August 2006. Its name, Stampylongnose, comes from an early animation he had made which featured the character 'Stampylonghead'. He used the channel for uploading silly, real-life videos with his friends throughout his late teens, as well as making stop-motion films and animations. Once he left school, he did video production courses in both college and university. The channel then became home to work projects that he helped create or acted in.

After watching video gameplay on Youtube, which was beginning to evolve into its own popular genre, Garrett began recording his own, initially showcasing Call of Duty and Halo. He was approached by a company called 'GamesThirst' to create a review of a new game, resulting in him being asked to create more videos on their behalf. This honed and improved his commentary confidence and ability.

The final months of his university course began to take up a lot of Garrett's free time, and thus he announced that he no longer had time to make gameplay videos. However, to compensate, he created a new channel called Stampylonghead dedicated primarily to the then-popular 'Let's Play' genre of videos. These videos were initially far less scripted and staged than those on his previous channel, taking far less time and far less effort. The first game he featured as a 'Let's Play' was sandbox video game Minecraft which was, at the time, well established on PC but had recently been released for the Xbox 360. He recorded his first experiences on the game, including the infamous 'first night' that players on Minecraft experience, on a save titled Stampy's Lovely World. His audience began to grow rapidly, resulting in the addition of the communicative Love Garden. Because of his rapid rise on YouTube, he left his job at a bartender to become a full-time video and content creator, almost entirely upon the success of his Minecraft series, despite the diversification of games on his channel.

In January 2013, Garrett was introduced to David Spencer, better known as iBallisticSquid. Despite only planning a limited run of videos together, their popularity as a duo in the following years, as well as their friendship, lead to the formation of their collaborative channel, 'The Magic Animal Club'. Stampy would later go on to form a tandem with his now-partner, Kye Garrett (playing as the character 'SqaisheyQuack' in Minecraft), a year later, primarily with the Den Series.

Stampy Recording Sign

Stampy doing his tour of his Gaming Setup in 2013

Near the end of 2014, Maker Studios (a Disney subsidiary) and Garrett announced their partnership, wherein an edutainment series was created, as well as a website, an app for both iOS and Android, and a merchandise shop for the United States. The edutainment series, later called Wonder Quest, premiered on YouTube on 25th April 2015. In this series, Stampy and his new friend Wizard Keen (voiced by Adam Clarke) protect their town of Wonderberg. Alongside Wonder Quest is a series named I Wonder, which were short educational videos that featured an animated version of Stampy. The show was a success, and a second season premiered in 2016.

By the end of 2014, he was the most viewed Minecraft YouTuber[3], and one of the most watched YouTube channels in the world.[4] His most viewed video uploaded in that year (and the third most-viewed Minecraft video in that year) was the Lovely World episode, "Ocean Adventure", with 18.9M views.

Garrett's popularity lead him to receive nominations from The Game Awards, Streamy Awards, Golden Joystick Awards, and Kids' Choice Awards.

In September 2015, Garrett made a deal with Egmont, a publisher of children's books and magazines in the UK, to publish two books under the Stampy brand. The first book, Stampy's Lovely Book, was released on 22nd October 2015, while the second book, Stick with Stampy!, was released on 18th July 2016. In August 2018, Garrett announced that he was working on his novel series. A series of videos dedicated to the novel series' development, Book Diary, soon premiered. He occasionally posts updates on the novel series' progress on his Twitter account.

Garrett collaborated with Guinness World Records on 3rd April 2018 when he visited their headquarters in London. During his visit, he set his world record for the "Fastest time to make and display 10 cakes in Minecraft (PC edition)", in which he succeeded with a time of 3 minutes and 51 seconds. He also holds another world record for "Most viewed Terraria video" (pointing out to the first episode of the series) with 9,593,008 views as of 24th April. He wrote the introduction for GWR Gamer's Edition 2019.[5][6]

On 21st October 2023, Garrett uploaded the final Lovely World episode, titled "Thanks For Watching". While he is no longer pursuing a regular schedule of uploading videos on the channel, he continues to appear regularly on Sqaishey's YouTube channel and on The Bonus Points, a gaming network centered on a podcast of the same name that he co-founded in November 2021 and is co-hosted with Oli Guy.

Personal Life

Garrett is married to fellow gamer and YouTuber Kye Garrett, better known as Sqaishey, whom he proposed to in July 2018; they got married a year later. They live together with their three pets, Ori (a cat), Alyx and Mei (both dogs).

Filmography

1 = External Link to Wikipedia; all other links are to pages on this wiki.

Film/Project Role Notes
Wonder Quest Stampylongnose Lead Role, creator and writer
Meet Me At The Reck Supporting Role/Guest, Episode: Cat in Black
BBC Breakfast Himself Guest
Good Morning Britain
Appsolute Genius with Dick and Dom1 Series 3 presenter
Good Mythical Morning Guest, Episode: Ultimate Minecraft Challenge ft. Stampy Cat
Good Mythical MORE Guest, Episode: Corn Dogs With Stampycat
Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything1 Guest, Episode: Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything
Fun Kids Radio Guest
Diddy TV1 Guest, 3 episodes

Podcasts

Film/Project Platform Role Notes
Stampy's Lovely Podcast iTunes Himself Host
The Shaft Guest, Episode 143
The Daily Cheat Guest, Episode 15
Ear Biscuits iTunes, SoundCloud, YouTube, Spotify Guest, Episode 72
Magic Animal Club Podcast YouTube, SoundCloud Co-host
The Bonus Points Podcast iTunes, Spotify, YouTube Co-host

Video games

Year Game Role Notes
2016 Minecraft: Story Mode Stampy Cat Guest, Episode 6: A Portal to Mystery
2017 Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 Recurring

Awards

Year Ceremony Award Status Ref(s)
2014 The Game Awards Trending Gamer
Nominated
[7]
Streamy Awards, 4th Edition Gaming [8]
2015 Kids' Choice Awards UK Favourite Tipster [9]
Streamy Awards, 5th Edition Gaming [10]
Golden Joystick Awards Gaming Personality
2016 Kids' Choice Awards UK Favourite Tipster [11]

References

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