Brian Rafat Awadis (born November 19, 1996), better known as FaZe Rug,^[3] is an Iraqi-American YouTuber who produces vlogs, challenges, gaming videos, and pranks on YouTube. He is a co-owner of FaZe Clan. He also is the most subscribed gamer in FaZe Clan on YouTube, with over 25 million subscribers.^{[citation needed]}

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FaZe Rug
FaZe Rug in 2019
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Born	Brian Rafat Awadis (1996-11-19) November 19, 1996 (age 27) San Diego, California, U.S.
Education	San Diego Miramar College
Occupations	YouTuber Internet personality
YouTube information
Also known as	FaZe Rug
Channel	FaZe Rug
Created by	Brian Awadis
Presented by	Brian Awadis
Years active	2012–present
Genres	Gaming Vlogs Pranks Comedy Family-friendly Challenges
Subscribers	25 million[1][2]
Total views	25.7 billion[2]
Network	FaZe Clan (2012–present)
Associated acts	FaZe Clan
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 2013 1,000,000 subscribers 2015 10,000,000 subscribers 2018
Last updated: January 21, 2024

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Brian Rafat Awadis^[4] was born on November 19, 1996,^{[P 1]} in San Diego, California, to immigrant Chaldean Assyrian parents from Tel Keppe, Iraq. His father owns two stores.^{[P 2]} Awadis graduated from Mira Mesa Senior High School and attended San Diego Miramar College before dropping out during his freshman year to pursue his YouTube career full-time.^[5] He can speak the Suret language, although he is not fluent.^{[P 3][P 4]}

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.^[1]

Brian created his own YouTube channel on July 11, 2012, on which he started posting short clips of Call of Duty gameplay.^[6] He was invited to join the esports team FaZe Clan, which he now co-owns, in January 2013. He uploaded his first prank video on December 7, 2014.^{[P 5]} 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. ^{[citation needed]}

In November 2019, Awadis released a song called "Goin' Live", and made a song with Omega ex which was accompanied by a music video released in January 2020.^{[P 6]}

He was the featured guest in season 17, episode 7 of MTV's Ridiculousness on June 24, 2020.^{[7][better source needed]} Awadis also created a video on April 30, 2021. The video contained him with the More about Faze Rugprofessional wrestler and son of Rey Mysterio, Dominik Mysterio, titled "Becoming a WWE Superstar for 24 Hours! (ft. Dominik Mysterio)". Mysterio trained him to become a WWE wrestler.

Awadis was invited to announce the Los Angeles Chargers 3rd round pick at the 2022 NFL Draft (79th overall). The pick was used on Baylor safety JT Woods.^{[citation needed]}