FaZe Banks finally breaks silence after six-month YouTube hiatus FaZe Banks, YouTube \/ YouTubeFaZe Clan CFO and popular vlogger Ricky Banks has finally made his return to YouTube after a six-month hiatus \u2013 and he gave a sobering explanation as to his absence. Banks discussed the issue in a vlog on February 24, where he explained that he\u2019d quit YouTube because he wasn\u2019t enjoying the experience of vlogging. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty fucking simple, guys,\u201d Banks stated. \u201cI just wasn\u2019t feeling it anymore. I wasn\u2019t having fun doing it.\u201d [Timestamp: 21:54 for mobile viewers.] He went on to address potential claims of returning to the platform out of needing money, claiming that he genuinely hopes to create content for fun, only. \u201cYouTube is dogshit now, and everybody knows that,\u201d Banks continued.\u201d \u2026I\u2019m not focused on the views \u2013 that\u2019s not why I stopped in the first place. I stopped because I wasn\u2019t having fun anymore, and I\u2019m only gonna do this when I want to do this.\u201d https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BeoJPyhlpjX\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkTop YouTubers and streamers around the space were floored at Banks\u2019 return to the platform, with the likes of FaZe Tfue, KEEMSTAR, and MrBeast tweeting out their response to the vlog en masse out of apparent surprise. Banks likewise stated that he is returning to a relaxed upload schedule, and revealed that he and girlfriend Alissa Violet have moved to a new house with new roommates. The YouTuber has also prepared a slew of upcoming content in lieu of his return, with \u201ca ton of stuff in the pipeline\u201d \u2013 so fans can rest assured that they\u2019ll be seeing another Banks video in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FaZe Banks finally breaks silence after six-month YouTube hiatus FaZe Banks, YouTube \/ YouTubeFaZe Clan CFO and popular vlogger Ricky Banks has finally made his return to YouTube after a six-month hiatus \u2013 and he gave a sobering explanation as to his absence. Banks discussed the issue in a vlog on February 24, where he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}