The former Fortnite pro Jarvis “FaZe Jarvis” Kaye (18) has been banned for life from Fortnite. Now he has written a rap about it and published it on YouTube. However, the comments mock the young man.
Why was FaZe Jarvis banned? In November 2019, the then 17-year-old FaZe Jarvis was permanently banned from Fortnite by Epic Games. He had played Fortnite Battle Royale on a secondary account and used an aimbot. He then uploaded a video about it online.
However, Epic’s ban did not only relate to the secondary account, which FaZe Jarvis likely assumed, but to him as a person.
At that time, the 17-year-old was a professional player for the FaZe Clan and had built up a large community on YouTube that was waiting for his Fortnite content. The ban effectively ended his career as a Fortnite pro and content creator for the shooter.
FaZe Jarvis is now professionally “banned from Fortnite”
This is what Jarvis has been doing since then: After attempts to negotiate with Epic Games to lift the ban failed, FaZe Jarvis announced that he was leaving the FaZe villa in LA and retreating to England to be with his mother and family.
However, that only lasted a short time, then Jarvis was back in LA and on YouTube. In recent months, Jarvis has focused on his YouTube career “after Fortnite”.
However, that mainly consists of managing his status as a “lifetime banned pro from Fortnite”.
He has already released several YouTube videos revolving around his ban:
- He quit YouTube to look for a real job
- He is now back in school
- He was caught secretly playing Fortnite
- A school bully forces him to play Fortnite
In addition, there are typical influencer videos with his brother and other members of the FaZe Clan.
Jarvis portrays himself in these videos as someone who is being prevented from doing what he loves: playing Fortnite.
This is now the rap: The latest video is titled “Banned 4 Life” and is a kind of rap. The video begins with edited news reports about his ban in Fortnite.
Then he walks around pretending to shoot people dressed as Fortnite characters.
These are the reactions: The video has 1.2 million views, 92,000 likes, and 29,000 dislikes.
However, the comment section is surprisingly biting:
- “Whoever let you publish this is not your friend”
- “Why are you bragging in front of us when you literally just lost your job and all fame because you were caught cheating?”
- “I take that as an alarm tone so I always wake up five minutes early to turn off the alarm”
