For about 5 years, Faze Clan was the biggest Gaming Clan on the internet.
As the Newborn Call of duty franchise was rapidly starting to gain popularity, so was
Faze Clan.
Occupied by only a few friends at the time, they never knew it was going to be this big.
Modern Warfare 2.
The game was full of bugs, and full of fun.
It was overall, a great game.
With this game being new and fresh to the call of duty Franchise, it brought it Loads
of new players looking for something unique.
It also brought many new play styles to the world of call of duty.
MW2 was revolutionary, as It introduced “trick shotting”
think of trick shotting in real life, basically, you do something very hard and complex, and try to make it happen.
well, if you thought that was hard, Faze Clan Pretty much created the trickshot playstyle
that was Introduced into MW2, they would jump off of a high ledge, spin a crazy amount of
times, and hope to hit a sniper shot, which is complete and utter luck, on their opponents
in hopes of watching the slow motion kill cam.
Seems hard right?
well, that was VERY unique at the time, and garnered An absurd amount of attention.
everyone was either confused, interested, or super mad about trickshotting.
Just imagine it’s 3 to 3, first team to 4 wins the game.
you’re spectating FaZe-Donkey. you watch him sit on top of a building and you start
to believe in him, he seems like he knows what he’s doing.
he’s surveying the map for the last guy, and has an Shotgun paired with his sniper.
Perfect load out.
He sees the final opponent, and can win the game right here.
But he jumps off the building, spins 7 times, and no scopes his sniper for the loss.
How would you feel?
Interested?
Confused?
Mad?
these were the three things that people felt when they saw someone trickshotting in their lobby.
sometimes people were like :
what is he doing?
hmm. whats he doing?
WHAT IS HE DOING?!?!?
This playstyle was new, and was here to stay for the next couple of years.
that was, Until their trickshotting fun, took a horrible spin.
from mw2, to black ops 3, trick shots were still around.
As well as another new playstyle.
“Feeding” This was where you would try to get consecutive kills with your sniper,
without it being “split or faded” in the kill feed.
Faze Clan was growing at an alarming rate.
Everyone wanted to join the clan.
And if they couldn’t, they copied their playstyle, trying to become better.
Faze Was very influential.
starting out with close to no subscribers during MW2, to Thousands Upon thousands in
the next call of duty game.
that was literally insane.
This was the Fastest Growing clan at the time.
but, The clan isn’t even the biggest part.
What’s bigger?
The members of it.
If i were to ask you to name at least one member of faze, you’d probably be able to.
Tfue, Cloakzy, Swan.
These are all Some relevant fortnite Faze members right now.
but, If you guys are OG faze clan fans, What Happened to Apex?
Rain?
Adapt?
Blaziken?
i don’t know about you, but i don’t even remember what happened to them.
it felt like one day i was watching, and then i just forgot.
There has to be something linking all of these Together, and there actually is.
Something Really Really weird, and something i do not understand.
I want to focus on these 4 Faze members right now because They were what i would consider
the most influential Call of Duty Faze members, and call of duty, was definitely when faze
was at its best.
But, it slowly went down from there...
These were my favorite youtubers from 2014-2016.
The Combination of Faze Apex’s Shortness, to FaZe Rains crazy Ballista skills, to adapts
studder, and to blazikens just overall entertaining videos, was amazing to me.
This was the reason that they were my favorite youtubers, they were playing a game that i
loved, and were making it more entertaining than it already was.
Their videos were perfect, all four of them.
they all normally uploaded a “Cut-Com” every single day, which consisted of them
sitting down, playing the most relevant Call of Duty game at the time, and talking about
something.
Looking at it now, it doesn’t seem very interesting, but trust me, it was!
Something about them, just explaining stuff, was fun to me.
So i enjoyed it very much.
but One day, faze rain Uploaded a Vlog.
“Why a vlog?”
i said to myself.
I was so used to him talking over some nice call of duty gameplay.
Not just his face.
You would think that, it’s the same thing, he’s still talking.
but, it felt different, and i just stopped watching him after this.
Why?
I honestly don’t know why, i just didn’t enjoy the videos, without the Gameplay it felt SUPER weird and just wasnt as Entertaining
sometimes he would go back, to the old ways for a video, but it was never the same.