Virus leaves FaZe Clan and claims owners \u201chated\u201d him after anti-LGBT tweet FaZe Clan\/Instagram: fazevirusssFormer FaZe Clan streamer and YouTuber Talal \u2018Virus\u2019 Almalki has officially left the organization, citing issues with their treatment of him and even accusing senior members of the organization of \u201chating\u201d him. Virus was the first member to join FaZe Clan that lived in the Middle East, representing a big push into a whole new market for the former sniping clan, as the winner of FaZe5 in 2020. Hailing from Saudi Arabia, Virus brought with him a legion of new fans that might not have engaged with FaZe before, but things turned sour when he was called out for an anti-LGBTQ+ tweet during Pride Month in 2022. After the team tweeted out their support of Pride Month, Virus said that as a Muslim, he does not support it due to his religious views, in a tweet that was deleted fairly promptly as it started to blow up. Several months later, on January 23, 2023, Virus confirmed in a YouTube video that he had left FaZe, and felt as though he had been wronged by them throughout his tenure. \u201cThroughout 2022, I wasn\u2019t proud of \u2018FaZe Virus,\u2019\u201d he explained. \u201cI was ashamed. I had a strange feeling. \u201cWhen I started in 2021, there is no denial that there were great things going on in the Clan \u2014 I was happy thinking that this is my place and this is the place where I accomplish my dreams. He mentioned that the organization never really appreciated his ideas to bring FaZe to the Middle East, and all the big plans he had since joining them, even when directly trying to bridge FaZe to a Saudi Arabian team, saying that \u201cno one gives a sh*t.\u201d He continued: \u201cIn 2022, they put up a specific tweet, and I was awake at 4 AM and I started getting messages and notifications of people asking me \u2018why are you supporting them\u2019 and as someone that represents both FaZe and Saudi Arabia, I had to say something.\u201d \u201cI spent 10 minutes crafting a response that didn\u2019t harm anyone, but I wish I didn\u2019t give it any thought, these dirty, sick people with their tweet.\u201d He claims another non-Muslim member agreed with him at the time, saying that Virus said nothing wrong and \u201conly expressed his opinion to fans.\u201d Virus added that following this incident, he felt \u201chate\u201d from many people within the organization: \u201cThere was a founder who hated me so much, which he didn\u2019t express, but I just felt like he wanted to kill me.\u201d \u201cI also lost contracts along the way, valued at half a million Riyals,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt put me in a bad position because after I signed these contracts, I was expecting to see the money in three months. Thinking it was in my future, I decided to go upgrade my car, you won\u2019t believe how much it was, but I upgraded it for around 100,000 Riyals. \u201cI paid for the car, and then lost the 500,000 Riyals [approximately $133k]. Imagine the situation I was put in. My life turned upside down \u2026 Through it all, the worst part is that I felt like my creativity was being sucked out of me, and my wings were being cut off.\u201d FaZe Clan has not commented on Virus leaving the organization, though his creator page is still up on their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Virus leaves FaZe Clan and claims owners \u201chated\u201d him after anti-LGBT tweet FaZe Clan\/Instagram: fazevirusssFormer FaZe Clan streamer and YouTuber Talal \u2018Virus\u2019 Almalki has officially left the organization, citing issues with their treatment of him and even accusing senior members of the organization of \u201chating\u201d him. Virus was the first member to join FaZe Clan […]<\/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-63604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63604","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=63604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}