FaZe Banks admits he might \u201cnever\u201d return to YouTube again YouTube: FaZe BanksFaZe Clan figurehead Ricky \u2018Banks\u2019 Banks has admitted he may \u201cnever\u201d return to YouTube again, despite the fact the infamous internet personality has built a fanbase of more than 5.38 million subscribers on the platform. FaZe fans should maybe stop holding their breath for a potential Banks YouTube return, the divisive star revealed earlier this week. He has \u201cno plans, at all\u201d to go back to his regular vlog series in 2020, and maybe won\u2019t ever return. The 28-year-old first rose to fame on YouTube all the way back in 2011 with a series of Call of Duty highlight videos. He, along with FaZe as a whole, pivoted towards a more entertainer style in 2017, and began releasing semi-regular vlogs. In mid-2019, the FaZe figurehead\u2019s YouTube content dried up completely. At the time, he said he was \u201cfocusing more on building FaZe Clan\u201d. He also began co-hosting the podcast \u2018Mom\u2019s Basement\u2019 alongside DramaAlert\u2019s Keemstar. Banks returned to YouTube intermittently in the following year, sharing a few small updates on his relationship with Alissa Violet \u2014 which has since ended \u2014 and interviewing KSI ahead of his second consecutive Logan Paul fight. There was always an element of hope from FaZe fans that Banks was just taking a bit of a hiatus from YouTube, and would return. Those hopes appear to have now been dashed, with Banks admitting he may \u201cnever return.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve been going through some shit\u2026 same as the last 28 years,\u201d Banks said on Mike Majlak\u2019s \u2018The Night Shift\u2019 series. Majlak then asked him if he\u2019d \u201cever return,\u201d especially considering 100 Thieves\u2019 Nadeshot demanded he come back. \u201cEverybody misses Banks!\u201d Majlak said again, calling for him to get back on the YouTube grind. The FaZe star shot down any potential comeback plans: \u201cI won\u2019t return anytime soon\u2026 no plans, at all.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s cool doing stuff like this [guest starring on vlogs], because this is fun,\u201d Banks continued, \u201cbut for me personally, I\u2019m being real now, it doesn\u2019t make me happy doing it. Being under the YouTube microscope, I don\u2019t like it. Fine being in other people\u2019s videos though, that\u2019s cool.\u201d The idea of Banks testing the waters with a Twitch streaming channel was also floated, but the FaZe star could only laugh. \u201cOh god no! No\u2026 there\u2019s no failsafe, you can edit stuff out [on YouTube] but can\u2019t do that on streaming. No way.\u201d The related segment begins at 6:17 in the video below. Banks\u2019 stance on his YouTube return echoes exactly why he took an extended break from the platform in 2018 as well. Two years ago, the 28-year-old took a short break, admitting he just \u201cwasn\u2019t feeling it anymore\u2026 wasn\u2019t having fun.\u201d \u201cI stopped because I wasn\u2019t having fun with it anymore, I\u2019m only going to do this [YouTube] when I want to do this,\u201d he added back in February, 2019. \u201cIf I don\u2019t want to go as hard as I used to, then that\u2019s just how it\u2019s going to be.\u201d Banks isn\u2019t absent from the internet either. He, alongside Keemstar and Colossal Is Crazy, recently inked a mega-deal with Spotify for their \u2018Mom\u2019s Basement\u2019 podcast series. Banks also stars in most FaZe Clan content videos released by the org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FaZe Banks admits he might \u201cnever\u201d return to YouTube again YouTube: FaZe BanksFaZe Clan figurehead Ricky \u2018Banks\u2019 Banks has admitted he may \u201cnever\u201d return to YouTube again, despite the fact the infamous internet personality has built a fanbase of more than 5.38 million subscribers on the platform. FaZe fans should maybe stop holding their breath […]<\/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-48459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48459","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=48459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}