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General Facts about FaZe Rug
- Full Names: Brian Awadis
- Born on: 19th November 1996
- Place of Birth: San Diego, California
- Star Sign: Scorpio
- Nationality: American
- Occupation: Social Media Personality
- Net worth: $4 Million
- Marital Status: Single
FaZe Rug is a YouTuber who became popular for his prank videos. He runs the FaZe Clan and is in the CloutGang group of social media personalities.
Everybody online calls him FaZe Rug, but his real name is Brian. Before he settled for the name FaZe Rug, he went by the names oRugrat and SoaR Rug. His YouTube channel is still called oRugrat.
His Family Background
Faze Rug was born on 19th November 1996 in San Diego, and he has Iraqi roots. His parents, Sana and Ron, and his brother, Brandon, are also social media personalities.
His Social Media Career
His first YouTube channel was titled fathersonchaldean, and it was in collaboration with his brother. They posted the first video in October 2008 and uploaded three more videos before they abandoned the channel in 2009.
He joined YouTube on his own in 2012, and his channel has over 4 billion views. He has 17.9 million subscribers.
Faze Rug’s first content on social media was prank videos. Now, his YouTube channel has various content ranging from social media challenges to vlogs. He also posts videos as he samples different food, such as military food and gas station food.
He has been reaching one milestone after another. For example, by the end of 2015, his YouTube channel had 1 million subscribers, and three years later, he reached the 10 million subscribers mark.
By 2017, he had received a billion views on his channel. For gaming videos, he runs a separate channel called FaZe Rug Games, and it has over 700,000 subscribers.
The social media fame made him quit college to focus on his social media career. It sure has been a fulfilling journey for him based on the monetary gifts he dishes out and the plush lifestyle he leads.
In January 2021, he stashed $10,000 in a bouquet of fresh roses as a present to his mum on her birthday, just a month after he bought her a G Wagon as a Christmas present. He also gave his housekeeper a surprise gift of $10,000.
His audience on social media is millions. He has 5.4 million Instagram followers and 5.2 million followers on TikTok and features on his parents’ YouTube channel titled Mama Rug and Papa Rug. This channel has over 1.5 million subscribers.
His Other Interests
He joined the FaZe Clan squad of e-sports personalities in 2013 and now owns this group. He has also tried other talents, such as singing.
In 2019, he produced a song titled Goin Live, and the video of it came out the following year. He has also tried acting and appeared in an episode of Ridiculousness on MTV in 2020.
His Personal Life
Faze Rug is dating Kaelyn, who is an Instagram personality. They started dating in 2016 but broke up after dating for about a year.
He went on to date Molly Eskam, but they broke up too. He rekindled his relationship with Kaelyn, and they started their new romance with a date on Valentine’s Day 2020. In 2021 they broke up. He is currently single at the moment.
In conclusion, despite reaching the 4 billion views mark on YouTube, Faze Rug seems to be in no hurry to stop as he keeps his fans engrossed in new content almost weekly.
