17-year-old was permanently banned from Fortnite and cried in front of millions – that’s what happened to him

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The Brit Jarvis “Jarvis” Kaye was permanently banned from the online shooter Fortnite in 2019. The YouTuber had used an aim bot to present exciting content to his viewers. In a video of him crying, he begged Epic Games for mercy, but they showed none. He stayed spellbound. But why did this ban make him famous? How did the YouTuber fare after the ban?

This is how the streamer was back then:

  • FaZe Jarvis was quite young in 2019 at 17 but on the way up. His older brother Kaye, who also worked on YouTube, gave him a starting advantage, he was able to join the big FaZe clan early on and enjoyed the best contacts.
  • In 2019, the 17-year-old made his clicks almost exclusively with Fortnite videos: he set himself tasks with handicaps and fulfilled them, reported leaks, played with attractive young women. He also entered into many collaborations with other members of the FaZe Clan. The most popular video from the time shows how he annoys his own brother in Fortnite until he logs out.
  • The style of his videos was colorful and garish. A lot was exaggerated, some fake, some pretty stupid. The videos were apparently aimed at a young audience. With one video, however, he went too far to produce content and used an aimbot. Epic Games made an example of Jarvis and banned him for life.

    • Jarvis is one of the legends of Fortnite’s “Hype Years” just like him:

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    What was special about the ban? FaZe Jarvis’ ban was special because it was the first time a content creator had been permanently banned from Fortnite as an individual – and someone relatively young at that.

    Even the biggest Twitch streamer at the time, Ninja, begged Epic Games for mercy, saying the boy couldn’t be deprived of his livelihood.

    FaZe Jarvis dealt aggressively with this ban, apologizing in a video that saw him burst into tears. To date, it is his channel’s second most popular video with 23 million. Only a “rap video” in which he sang about the ban reached even more viewers.

    What was remembered above all was that Jarvis, who otherwise appeared so cheeky, looked like a heap of misery in the video and begged for mercy.

    After the ban, Jarvis keeps making videos about the ban

    How is he doing in the post-ban period? Jarvis is now 21 years old, still on YouTube but no longer a member of FaZe Clan.

    He milked that ban from Fortnite almost endlessly in the year following his ban

    In the first year after his ban, videos appeared claiming:

  • He had to quit YouTube and start a regular job
  • He had to go back to school
  • He’s secretly playing Fortnite again
  • He is caught secretly playing Fortnite
  • A schoolyard bully forces him to play Fortnite
  • He plays extremely bad Fortnite clones
  • He will be banned from Fortnite for 24 hours
  • He sneaks into a Fortnite event and gets kicked out

    • These videos were all amazingly successful, at least significantly more successful than the videos he otherwise made.

    The first videos after his ban,

    FaZe Jarvis dabbles in a variety of subjects, then discovers boxing

    This is how it went afterwards: From around the end of 2020, Jarvis seemed to be slowly leaving his Fortnite trauma behind, and the clicks were also dwindling. Jarvis continued with flashy YouTube videos that captured well-known trends that other YouTubers had already shaped.

    Now it was a lot about women, crushes, food, pets, his girlfriend, weird challenges, some kind of “Oh, she’s pregnant” pranks.

    When the success slowly waned, around 2021, Jarvis went on a sports trip and discovered amateur boxing. “Influencers get fit and box against each other” is a typical YouTube trend of the time. In Germany, the 2022 arrived relatively late with Trymacs.

    From 2022 onwards, Jarvis then repeatedly mixed Fortnite content into his boxing videos:

  • He survived 50 hours in Fortnite
  • Epic Games wants to sue him for unbanning himself in Fortnite
  • He snuck into TwitchCon to get unbanned in Fortnite

    • Just a few days ago, on June 17th, 2023, a video appeared with the title “I was banned from Epic Games. So I made Fortnite 2.”

    In 2023, Jarvis’ channel will be mostly boxing videos. The clicks have decreased, but something with Fortnite is still working today.

    Clan suspends Jarvis after crypto ad goes haywire

    Why is he out of his clan? Jarvis, his brother Kaye and 2 other members of the influential FaZe Clan had promoted and touted the cryptocurrency “Save the kids” to their fans in 2021, which turned out to be a “pump and dump” scam.

    Faze Clan then fired his brother, Kaye, and suspended Jarvis himself indefinitely.

    Jarvis later released a video saying he could have returned to the clan but decided against it because he didn’t want to be there without his brother.

    Jarvis has been riding the “I’m banned from Fortnite” wave for 4 years, with diminishing success

    How can you sum this up? Jarvis’ career may have been derailed a little by being banned from Fortnite, but ultimately he made “I got banned from Fortnite and everyone knows it” a part of his identity and exploited it to no end.

    The fact that the videos with the same shoot are still working today, albeit with decreasing success, seems to prove him right.

    His ban from Fortnite is the unique selling point that sets him apart from anyone offering content similar to his.

    What is striking about Jarvis is that

  • he stages Epic Games as an enemy – he acts as if some kind of FBI were after him, which does everything possible to monitor and bring him down when he plays Fortnite
  • he has practically nothing to do with gaming outside of Fortnite
  • he works closely with his brother, who then and now constantly makes him a topic in his videos

    • That the guy known for breaking down in tears at 17 in a video in front of 20 million people is now, at 21, an amateur boxer who gets hard and poses for photos with women in the pool is not without a certain comedy .

    While YouTube views aren’t pouring in like they used to, Jarvis seems to be enjoying the good life.

    As a content creator, Jarvis is still relatively successful, although it’s been up and down. His channel currently seems to be weakening, most videos in 2023 remain under a million views.

    With the expulsion from FaZe, both he and his brother have lost some contacts and relevance.

    Did being banned from Fortnite hurt him? Ultimately, the ban from Fortnite was probably even more beneficial for his career – the videos he made before the ban would not have had the same success today, 4 years later, as they did in 2019. In this case, audacity won out.

    In 2019, another teenager also became overnight famous thanks to something that happened in Fortnite:

    What happened to the 15-year-old who his mom took out of school so he could spend more time in Fortnite?

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