

Kaye appears to know what a dire situation he’s gotten himself into. He ostensibly could get around the ban by making a new account, but even if he successfully accomplished that and used it to play, he still couldn’t upload gameplay to his channel without Epic finding out.

As for YouTube, he brings in around 30M views per month on the platform, where he has 2.03M subscribers, and where the vast, vast majority of his videos involve Fortnite gameplay. He’s a professional Fortnite player for FaZe Clan, and being banned means he can no longer play in professional tournaments he’s already dropped out of this coming weekend’s Simon Cup, which offers a grand prize of $50,000. Unlike a casual player, for whom a ban could result in a loss of fun but not much else, Kaye’s ban will have an immediate impact on all his sources of income. This week, the publisher hit Kaye with a lifetime ban, citing a “zero tolerance policy for the usage of cheat software.”

While it was running, he ultimately seemed to be out to test the limits of the cheat, taking long-odds potshots at distant players from up on mountaintops and inviting friends in to try their hands at hitting targets (who, again, were other players in live matches) with the bot’s help.Īnd, according to Fortnite’s developer Epic Games, none of what he did was OK. Once he’d played a handful of non-cheating games in an attempt to fool Fortnite’s systems, he enabled the aimbot software. Subscribe for daily Tubefilter Top Stories Subscribe
