“I mean the first three games we were up by a lot so we were pretty confident the whole
way through.
I didn’t expect this, I knew we were gonna do well but this is crazy.”
Before Faze Tfue would become one of the best Fornite players of all time.
Before Tfue would break multiple world records including
Most Fortnite kills on a PC
Most squad kills on a PC
Most solo kills in Fortnite
And more
Before Tfue would have close to 1.5 Million followers on Twitter, over 5.4 Million followers
on Instagram, close to 10.5 Million Subscribers on YouTube & more than 110 million views on
Twitch at the time of this recording.
Before he would join Faze with 150K Subscribers.
Before his Fortnite account would be banned... not once but twice.
“I didn’t know if it was like the game messing up or something.
I checked my emails.
Buying and selling accounts is not okay, it is against TOS, it is completely my fault.”
Before a hacker took over Faze Tfue's YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, Twitter and email
account and before the hacker deleted his entire youtube channel not once but twice.
He got it back almost 2 weeks later.
“Everything was hacked.”
Faze Tfue has become one of the biggest Fortnite players in the world.
But his success didn’t happen overnight, he’s been grinding and playing video games
since he was 12 years old.
And while he may be a part of the infamous FaZe Clan now, I did some digging and before
all of the success, back in 2014, he actually made one of the FaZe Clan members quit a game.
Can you guys guess which member it was?
Look, I’m gonna be honest with you guys up front, I know nothing about video games
except for playing 2K so if I say anything weird or mess up any pronunciation, I apologize
in advance!
What’s going on good people in the comment section?
Shout out to everyone watching after work, after school, at school, at work, or on the
toilet!
I hope you’re having one Hecht of a Day, my name is Jeremy Hecht, here for you on Before
They Were Famous and today we’ll be taking you through the life and career of FaZe Tfue
prior to online fame.
If you’re new here and wondering who I am – check out this video where Michael explains
it all
We’ve covered other gamers for this channel like Ninja and a bunch of members of the FaZe
Clan like FaZe Banks, Rain and Rug so be sure to check those out after you finish watching
this one, let us know who to cover next by hitting me up on Instagram or in the comments
down below and without any more talking, let’s get into it!
“What I did totally got us kicked out.
I’m telling you like one fourth of the screen was literally me like *weird noise*”
FaZe Tfue was born Turner Tenney on January 2, 1997 or 1998 depending on the online source,
in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida.
Indian Rocks is a small beach town with just over 4,000 people.
And it was by the beach that he began to love water sports including surfing and skimboarding.
Turner is one of those kids who is basically good at everything that he attempts.
Check out some old footage of him ripping some waves:
And he was even good at cliffdiving, longboarding and skateboarding.
“Turner just took off, started winning slide jams, started placing top 3 in downhill garage
races, started doing tricks nobody has ever seen before and basically took the community
by storm at the time.”
Tfue’s brother Jack, has a huge YouTube channel called Joogsquad, which currently
has 4.5 million subscribers.
Turner’s father, Dick Tenney, is incredibly proud of his son’s accomplishment to date.
“He killed Ninja.
If you can kill Ninja, you’re as good as anybody on Fortnite.
In fact I would assume since Ninja thinks he’s the best, Turner is better than he is."
From a young age, Tfue was drawn to video games, and he was always really good at them.
“I have here, the first ever footage of Turner playing video games on all of the internet.”
But he wasn’t just playing for fun, he was really competitive with the sticks…
And the guy didn’t like to lose.
The very first game that he played to the point of addiction was Halo.
He used to play it against his brother but took it much more seriously than him.
Then got into Call of Duty.
But he wasn’t just sitting around in his room all day though, he continued to practice
his skills riding waves and searching for adventure in his spare time.
JOOGSQUAD PPJT’s YouTube channel was created on May 16, 2007, when Turner was only 10 years old.
And if you go back to the first video still up on the channel, well let’s just say that
Tfue was a part of creating revolutionary content.
“Ow!”
“Are you okay?
Are you okay Pierce?”
But don’t feel bad about his little brother getting his sack crushed, because he has an
Instagram account with close to 50k followers, fittingly titled, @tfuesbro
But his YouTube channel only has 454 subscribers at the time of this recording…
So let’s get the kid up to at least 1,000!
But while he had other hobbies, his brother Jack knew that Tfue should continue to focus
on video games, telling Koncrete:
“He started breaking world records on really popular games…
We all started to take notice like, wow he’s actually insane when it comes to these games.”
After Halo, he moved on to Call of Duty and then found the game Destiny.
On May 22, 2014, he created his YouTube channel and uploaded his first videos showing gameplay
of Call of Duty and Destiny.
But his comeup on YouTube didn’t happen overnight.
While his first ever video has over 100k views because of people going back to it after the
fame, when he first started posting, most of his videos were only get a few thousand
views.
In fact, he was posting for almost 6 months consistently without a big video.
In May of 2015, his video of the 1st solo Skolas kill in Destiny, I think that’s how
you pronounce it, now has over 500k views.
Also side note, around that time he met Steve-O from Jack A**
But Tfue was getting so good at gaming that he created his Twitch account and partnered
with the site for live streams of his game play.
But even at that point, if you look at his view count over the course of the next 6 months,
he was only getting a few thousand views per video, besides a few outliers.
One of those outlier videos was this.
Look, I’ve tried Chicken with a sauce that used a Carolina Reaper pepper, shoutout
to Howlin’ Rays in LA, and my stomach literally hurt for 3 days straight.
My friend John couldn’t move after eating a single piece of that chicken.
So Tfue might still be feeling the effects.
Anyways, after retiring from Destiny, H1Z1 and Pubg became Tfue’s new go-to games as
he started to become a fan of the Battle Royale format.
He was streaming the battle royal games on his Twitch and the practice also gave him
early insight into games that would later help him out in his Fortnite career.
He was making some decent money from playing games at the time, but it wasn’t quite yet
a career.
Prior to that, he never had a real job but he does mention mowing people’s lawns at
one point.
He played Pubg for about 6 months and would stream both games while his audience started
to grow on both YouTube and Twitch.
TFue met Ninja for the first time during an H1Z1 tournament.
The two ended up alternating between the number one and number 2 slots on the game’s leaderboard.
But it’s when Fornite dropped, that Tfue’s whole life would change for the better.
When the game dropped, his knowledge of Battle Royale formats helped him jump ahead of much
of the competition.
“This is the face of Fortnite.
This is the future of America."
Through consistent video posts, Twitch streams and competition wins, by January 1, 2018,
Tfue had around 65k subscribers on YouTube.
Tfue met Ninja again, but this time in Fortnite on April 2 of 2018.
And the two have both been regarded at one point in time or another as the best Fortnite
players in the world.
On May 1, 2018 Tfue announced that he had joined the prestigious FaZe Clan, and he recently
moved out to the FaZe house in Los Angeles.
If you’re watching this, I’d love an invite, I mean I’m not too far away…
I’ll even pay for my own Uber!
So just putting it out there.
He had around 150k subscribers at the time that he joined but within just a few weeks,
his subscriber count went up to over half a million.
I guess joining FaZe can help with that…
But it wasn’t always love between Tfue and the fellas from FaZe.
I did some deep Twitter scrounging and found a tweet from 2014 where he said:
“Sorry for trapping you @FaZeLoams”
Then saying:
“Just made FaZe Loams quit.
RIP.
And there’s the answer to my question from the beginning of the video!
But after all was going well for Tfue, he was banned from Twitch for violating their
code of conduct.
Then, after getting the ban reduced from 30 to 7 days, he was banned by Epic Games from
Fortnite.
Epic Games said that Tfue was involved in buying and selling skins and accounts… sounds
like some crazy stuff within the gaming world.
“I just want you guys to know that I did not get banned for exploiting.
I did not get banned for fast farming or jumping through walls or team killing or whatever
you guys may think.”
In August of 2018, he won a tournament in Fortnite…
And oh yeah, the prize was 500 thousand dollars.
“Would you like to say anything to your fans?
Everyone joining us here, everyone joining us at home?”
“I love you mom!”
But the rollercoaster continued for Tfue.
Just after an amazing high for him, he faced another low.
All of his accounts were hacked including his email…
Fortunately, he was able to get his accounts back.
“So basically I woke up one morning, and I couldn’t sign into my YouTube, and then
I couldn’t sign into my Twitter, and then my Instagram and then my Snapchat.
All my emails were hacked so basically everything was hacked, you know?”
Right after that, he was banned on Twitch, again for 14 days….
And if that wasn’t enough, he was hacked…
AGAIN.
But this time, his YouTube channel was deleted…
A channel with over 3 million subscribers at the time.
Luckily, he got his account back
That was a lot to keep track of.
I hope all of those things happened in that order, I feel like there was so much chaos
in that time of his life but, I’m glad everything’s okay now.
Tfue’s journey over the past year has been incredible and his brother even made an entire
video highlighting the biggest moments of his come up and Fortnite moments in 2018 which
you can check out after this.
As for the rest of the story, well you know it, because this is Before They Were Famous.
Here are two more videos for you to check out!
I’m Jeremy Hecht, let me know who to cover next in the comments down below, Dream Good,
Live Better, I hope you have one Hecht of a day, and I’ll see you in another video.