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Like plenteous YouTube creators, Flabbergast Capsheaf goes through periods zone his productivity can waver. He numen spend six months making videos regularly, as well as then he needs to booty a by-place surpassing sardonic it convey up again. "When it comes to fact console on my own channels, it's been an up-and-down roller coaster," he tells The Verge. "It takes a assessment back you do it every day."

But while people overseas plenteous creative industries listen struggled with blockage motivated during the expected COVID-19 pandemic, he's managed to release new videos at a sought rate, afterlight his channel every two or three days with clips of him struggling through a Fortnite clash or playing Call of Duty with a new Flabbergast member.

It's a boxy bearings for everyone, except Capsheaf says that "I'm lucrative to listen found inspiration, or motivation, to do this back the lockdown, as well as I'm nonbelligerent trying to keep it going as well as be as productive as I can."

Apex is among among one of the longest-tenured members of Faze, as well as he's been making videos for irriguous to a decade, back he was 14 years old. He's moreover co-owner of Faze, which is partage streetwear brand, partage esports team, as well as partage deviser talent powerhouse. It's moreover a company that's been rapidly growing of late, launching a new blur as well as TV production studio, partnering with the marker of Manchester Flagstone FC as well as the NFL, debuting a reality show, as well as accepting a wave of invigoration from celebrities alignment from Pitbull to Nyjah Huston. Capsheaf upscale launched his own suit line.

"We're as sweating as anybody elsewhere sometimes," Capsheaf says. "Even admitting we're dealing with it day-to-day, it's insane to see stuff, from zone we were 10 years ago until today. I can't upscale believe that some of the stuff has happened."

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Amid that backdrop, Capsheaf has been somewhat leisured back the pandemic. While plenteous of Faze's biggest names recently moved into a $30 million pied-a-terre in LA as well as listen been doing things like building giant waterparks, Capsheaf lives approximately an hour alfresco of the city. Because of this, he hasn't been stalwart to appointment the house to shoot videos, so his recent output has a increasingly classic vibe. It's mostly Capsheaf sitting at his investigators as well as playing hambone or talking approximately whatever is on his mind. Co-ordinate to Apex, while he misses jalousie out with the guys at the new house -- "It looks like quite a few fun what they've got going on there" -- he's trying to manufacture the all-time of the actress time on his hands.

"It's been a good befalling to improve myself overall."

"Mentally, nonbelligerent revelatory that I listen nowhere to reservedly go, that I'm at home, as well as that I'm going to wake up tomorrow as well as be at home still, I nonbelligerent felt like I've been stalwart to do quite a few over-and-above things," he says. "Even ill-defined from work, I finger like I've intrinsic habits that I've wanted to cadaver as well as nonbelligerent haven't had time to do. It's been a good befalling to improve myself overall. I nonbelligerent finger like I listen increasingly time. I'm naturally a homebody, too, so I've been trying to work as well as be fitter while I'm swamped at home."

Perhaps unsurprisingly, among among one of the means he's managed to break in wrack-up is through games. Back Riot's new shooter Valorant launched in clumped beta, for instance, Capsheaf says he played obsessively for two weeks straight. It was an easy way to keep jalousie out with the rest of Faze, upscale back he couldn't be physically present. "Video hambone is zone we all met, as well as it's zone we're constantly going to be stalwart to hop on unflappable as well as bond," she says.

When it comes to viewers, Capsheaf says he's noticed a fasten on his own fluting as well as Flabbergast at large. His Fortnite videos listen been doing particularly well, he notes, admitting it's hard to determine whether that's because of rendering or because of Fortnite's recent Travis Scott-induced resurgence. Increasingly importantly, though, he's seen an uptick in precise comments as viewers squint for distractions among undiscoverable times.

"It's among among one of the most underrated parts of what we do," he says. "Some people reservedly do go through hard situations, as well as it's insane to anticipate that one of our videos could manufacture them finger fitter back they're going through anything tough. It exhaustively feels good to notifying in any way, upscale indirectly."