the news just broke that tfue is not only leaving faze clan but he's also
suing faze banks organization the faze clan but before we get into this video I
have a couple folks here to give some advice to face banks everybody this is
Chris from the rewired so where we talk about the problem but focus on the
solution and if you're new to my channel what I'd like to do is take a look at
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sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell so the the purpose of
this video it I hope I can provide some advice to anybody who wants to become a
youtuber or wants to become a pro gamer or twitch streamer but I also want to
let all of you other people out there a little bit behind the curtain of what's
going on and kind of explain this alright so first let me qualify myself
and why I'm even talking on this subject those of you who have been subscribed to
my channel for a while you're like Chris why are you covering gaming news well
just real quick real quick brief summary of my past right after I got out of high
school and during high school I was really into a game called Counter Strike
I ended up writing for a professional eSports organization this was when I was
18 so we're talking about 15 years ago this was when eSports was first getting
big I was very fortunate at a young age I got to travel all over the world I've
been to Sweden I've been to France I've been to Spain all to go to professional
gaming tournaments and I've worked for not only a news organization called goth
rag but I was also the coach of Team 3d all right
so I've been in this realm for over a decade now all right cool so the first
thing I want to talk about is this is a new ok organizations screwing over
players it's not new and something that's
becoming a conversation again now with the huge announcement that T foo is
leaving phase and potentially suing them like more people are talking about like
you know players need representatives and you know maybe they needed unionize
and everything like that I have various opinions on that but I just want you to
let you know that this is something that's been going on for years now okay
and the landscape has changed so much so much from when I first got into the
whole professional gaming industry okay and here's what I mean by that like now
now it is possible for players like Tfue you see it with ninja where they can
just be their own brand in their own person what I've noticed is that these
gaming organizations are kind of like MC ends for youtubers and here's what I
mean by that if you're a youtuber or if you've heard about you know MC ends and
youtubers like one of the most recent ones was with defy media what MC ends do
their management company's right and they approach up-and-coming creators and
they're like yo sighted deal with us will help promote you will help manage
all your stuff will help you to brand deals we'll do all these things they
make a ton of promises and they awfully often don't fulfill those promises they
don't hold up there into the bargain and typically what happens with MC ends and
what we see the gaming organizations is they try to get as many people under
their umbrella as possible because it brings them in more money because what
they're doing is that having people signed contracts saying that we get this
percentage you get this right but the thing is is that in most of these
contracts people are getting screwed and MC ends they're taking money from people
but they don't have to hold up their end of the bargain if you hear youtubers
talking about this all the time like bigger MC ends they usually focus on the
largest creators and provide them with a lot of support but all the people that
they're getting in under their umbrella don't get as much love and attention all
right so it's important to understand that now in my opinion MC ends gaming
organizations they take advantage of YouTube creators that take advantage of
gamers and many cases not all cases I've heard of some
MCS being pretty good I've heard of some gaming organizations
being fair to the players but this is a industry where they take advantage of
people who are coming up coming up in this industry that isn't fully defined
yet and there's not regulations or any things like that or enough regulations
so they're taking advantage of people who don't know the realm don't know the
industry they're stunned to see oh my god I can do something I love and create
a career out of it and you know be in front of millions and millions of
millions of people so a lot of people are going into these situations very
naive and very ignorant so again like this video I hope some of you out there
who want to become a youtuber someday or a pro gamer someday like I hope you take
these things into consideration because I've been watching this for over a
decade now okay and I believe that's what we're seeing with the whole t food
situation all right and here's the thing the way this landscape has changed like
you don't need you don't need an MCN you don't need a gaming organization like I
believe that we are currently at a time where you don't need these these massive
organizations to help you and build you up and everything like we're living in a
time where you create can create your own brand by yourself and that's the
beauty of the time that we're living in but here's the tricky part
all right there's a lot that goes into it especially when it comes to twitch
streamers pro gamers they have a lot a lot that they have to manage okay
so they stream on Twitch and they're doing this for hours upon hours upon
hours a day that is their full-time job but what we're seeing with people like T
foo with people like ninja I love cypher pkv I've Tim the top man
and things like that like you have to get your yourself out there in front of
everybody so they also have YouTube channels they also have Instagram
accounts they also have their Twitter and they're putting highlight clips and
everything like that this is very very time-consuming so the
tricky part is is to do it all by yourself would be very difficult and you
would get overwhelmed very very quickly now ninja I think he's very fortunate to
have his wife who manages a lot of what's going on behind the scenes
she helps set up brand deals and everything like that I know Ninja has
editors and then he has you know his mods on Twitch and everything so like
it's almost like in the end the time we're living in especially when it comes
to pro gamers you need to set up a very small team I don't think it needs to be
a massive team unless you know you're trying to build a larger brand and
everything and that's kind of like what we're seeing with ninja but for other
up-and-coming gamers when you start to become bigger and noticing that you need
to be on more platforms then just twitch my suggestion is start out on your own
see what you can manage see how much you can edit but here's the thing to these
streamers need to realize like they can hire people who will help them just to
be associated with them almost like an intern and get experience right like if
you ever watched the the commentary channels the right opinion he has a good
thing going on right he has editors who help him a lot with his content and he
gives them credit down in the pen comments he ties them on social media
this is a good value exchange and I really think gamers need to do this
because they don't need some some big organization managing everything that's
going in because again like you are splitting profits with them and a lot of
times like what we're seeing with teeth who is that you're getting the short end
of the stick now let's talk about what's going on the legal aspects of these
things I'm not a lawyer okay so I'm just going to talk from my personal
experience but apparently Tfue is suing faze clan alright so in my opinion and
just from my personal experience T foo would not have made this announcement
and wouldn't have become so public unless he found a lawyer who thinks he
can win this case all right now what has happened since then is that
face banks is out here just talking trash and posting on Twitter and
everything and that's why I put that clip at the beginning of this video like
banks needs to shut his mouth okay Mike one of the issues that we see with
social media influencers and everything is that people grow up in this and they
don't have that much life experience and they don't have people in their lives
who teach them like for a lack of better words how the world actually works okay
there's a lot of very adult things that are happening we just saw it with the
James Charles situation with Jeffrey starlight it was about to get to a point
where like people were about to start getting sued okay and that's why I
believe this thing just it just died off okay and everybody's like okay we
forgive each other and everything like that but a lot of people do not
understand how these things work so let me share my experience on this so my
first career was in the car dealership industry I worked in the service
department I was taught I was trained okay because you deal with a lot of
people who get very upset like nobody likes their car breaking down and paying
for repairs and all that but I was trained very early on that the second
the second and irate customer starts to talk about suing you and bringing up
legal matters boom I'm done I am no longer allowed to talk to that person
you want to know why because from that point on once once they threatened that
it could be used against you or can be used against your company so most
recently I was working for a very large addiction treatment center very very big
addiction treatment center right same thing if a former client started to
threaten to sue or the family started to threaten to sue the company boom I was
done with them we had to run it up to our legal team and say hey here's here's
the customer here's what they're saying here's what they're threatening and I
gave them all the information but I had to back out of it because I continued
that conversation I can get myself and my company into a lot of trouble so now
we have faced banks popping off on Twitter
star is involved he's saying that he is interviewing faze banks
unlike face banks needs to shut his mouth right now he needs to shut his
mouth he needs a consult employer and handle this situation very very
delicately because if this is true and this is and like unless they do some
settlement if this actually goes to court like anything faze banks is saying
on Twitter or if he says it in an interview with keemstar can be brought
up to help t foo win this case all right now in my opinion I think you know T foo
is probably owed some money a lot of these contracts are garbage
phase banks is over on Twitter saying they have never taken 80% away from T
foo and all that but like I said just in my opinion and just my experience I
figure teef who has a pretty strong case if a lawyer was willing to take on this
case all right but anyways I hope this video opened up your eyes to kind of the
climate that we're in with you know youtubers gamers you know it becoming
more of a thing it's something you know I have a ten-year-old son some of you
out there if you have children if you have nieces and nephews if there are
just kids in your life you hear them talking about wanting to be youtubers or
streamers and I think this is just something important to discuss because I
don't think many people fully understand where we're at like although we see
people making careers and becoming celebrities out of this like this is not
a fully developed industry yet and that's why I hope all of you follow
people like Philip DeFranco like Philip DeFranco was always really fascinated
about the the shifts and changes and stories I wouldn't be surprised if he
covered this story because this industry isn't completely developed yet and a lot
of these things like what happened with Ethan and Eli Klein and the fair use
lawsuit that they got into like a lot of these things are setting the tone
setting the precedent for what is to come
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