Faze Banks is an American who lives in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He is a YouTuber, an Instagram Star, and a social media personality. He is known for his YouTube channel, which is called Faze and has more than 4.7 million subscribers. The 27-year-old YouTube star also became well-known through videos like games, reactions, Vlogs, pranks, and much more.
Banks is also the FaZeClan’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) (popular Call of Duty players group). Also, Ricky Banks is not his real name.
He started his career when he was 19. Banks also joined the clan in 2013. At the time, he was living in Miami, Florida. As of right now, more than 5.5 million people follow FaZe Clan on YouTube. Faze Adapt, Faze Temper, Faze Rug, and Faze Rain are the other people in Clan.
“BanksHasBank” was the name of Faze’s first YouTube channel. In October 2011, he posted his first video, called “The Single Greatest SoaRing in Style.” He changed the name of his gaming channel to FaZe Clan later.
Faze Banks Age & Birthday
Ricky Banks was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States, on October 18, 1991. So, Faze Banks is 27 years old as of the year 2018. We don’t know who his father and mother are. But we’ll let you know soon.
Also, when he was seven years old, he moved with his parents to Lowell, Massachusetts. Ricky Banks finished high school at Lowell in 2010. He became interested in video games when he was young.
In fact, NHL, Madden, and Halo were his favorite games. Before he started FaZe Clan, Banks was also the leader of the gaming team “Soar.”
Career and Well-Known For
In September 2011, he started a YouTube channel called BanksHasBank. Later, he changed the name to FaZe Banks. Most of the videos on his YouTube channel are about games. In October 2011, he put up his first video, The Single Greatest Soaring in Style. He used to post short videos with crazy trick shots from the video game Call of Duty.
He also started making YouTube videos like reaction videos, vlogs, prank videos, and more. He quickly got to the top, and he also got a lot of viewers and subscribers.
Banks was in a clan called SoaR before he joined the FaZe clan, so he changed his channel name to SoaR Banks. In March 2013, he joined the FaZe Clan and changed his YouTube name to FaZe Banks. When he joined the clan, he was said to have about 45k subscribers. By the end of June 2013, he had 100k subscribers.
After that, he reached 1 million subscribers in the middle of 2017, so he stopped making gaming videos and started making vlogs and challenge videos instead. He became CEO of the Call of Duty game in 2013. His YouTube channel has over 384 million views and 5 million subscribers as of right now. Here is the most watched video on the Banks channel on YouTube.
