Brian Awadis (born November 19, 1996), better known as FaZe Rug, is an American

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who produces vlogs, challenges, gaming videos, and pranks on

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. He is a co-owner of

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. He also is the most subscribed gamer in FaZe Clan on YouTube, with over 22 million subscribers.

Early life

Brian Rafat Awadis was born on November 19, 1996, in

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to immigrant Chaldean Assyrian parents from

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. His father owns two stores. Awadis graduated from

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and attended

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before dropping out during his freshman year to pursue his YouTube career full-time. He can speak the

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language, although he is not fluent.

YouTube career

Awadis and his older brother Brandon started a shared YouTube channel called "fathersonchaldean" on October 11, 2008, uploading their first video the same day. They uploaded at least three more videos by the end of 2009, at which point the channel became inactive. Awadis created his own YouTube channel on July 11, 2012, on which he started posting short clips of ''

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'' gameplay. He was invited to join the esports team

, which he now co-owns, in January 2013. He uploaded his first prank video on December 7, 2014. His channel surpassed 1 million subscribers on October 9, 2015, and 10 million on September 8, 2018, thus earning him the Diamond Play Button award. It surpassed one billion cumulative video views on July 21, 2017. In November 2019, Awadis released a song called "Goin' Live", which was accompanied by a music video released in January 2020. He was the featured guest in season 17, episode 7 of

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's Ridiculousness on June 24, 2020. Awadis also created a video on April 30, 2021. The video contained him with professional wrestler and son of

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, titled "Becoming a WWE Superstar for 24 Hours! (ft. Dominik Mysterio)". Mysterio trained him to become a

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wrestler. Awadis was invited to announce the

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3rd round pick at the

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(79th overall). The pick was used on Baylor safety

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Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rug, FaZe 1996 births 21st-century American male actors Living people American male actors American people of Iraqi-Assyrian descent American people of Iraqi descent American YouTubers Comedy YouTubers FaZe Clan Gaming YouTubers People from San Diego YouTube vloggers