FaZe Clan continues to be neck-deep in drama, this time with one other allegation from proprietor Nordan “Rain” Shat about a number of the group’s earlier choices.
The corporate made headlines on Might 19 when it laid off almost half of its staff, and Rain’s newest allegation continues a development of unhealthy information within the FaZe camp. This time, Rain focused the signing of streamer Nicholas “NICKMERCS” Kolcheff, who can be a co-owner of FaZe Clan.
“You understand FaZe recruited NICKMERCS in 2018 as ‘injury management’ (their phrases not mine) to the Tfue state of affairs and people idiots have been paying him $1M a 12 months since,” Rain wrote through his Instagram story. “I couldn’t consider ONE memorable second with NICKMERCS and FaZe. Like actually not one. No different FaZe member will get even near that # btw.”
NICKMERCS has been signed to the FaZe organization since 2019, and has had an fairness stake since 2021. Previous to this, NICKMERCS had been a outstanding member of Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag’s 100 Thieves group.
FaZe was concerned in a messy public breakup with former member and streamer Turner “Tfue” Tenney in 2019 and 2020 which resulted in a lawsuit over numerous elements of the Fortnite star’s contract. Whereas Tfue and FaZe Clan reportedly “settled their litigations” in August of 2020, Rain claims that the group signed the ever-popular NICKMERCS as “injury management” through the preliminary controversy. Rain additionally alleges that FaZe pays the streamer $1 million a 12 months, apparently a a lot greater quantity than different members of the group get.
In a subsequent Instagram story submit, Rain additionally claims that FaZe’s CEO has “been mendacity to everybody for therefore lengthy” about his personal wage.
Regardless of being one among FaZe’s longest-serving members, Rain has had a patchy relationship with the group of late. On Might 2, he appeared to threaten to leave FaZe if the director of social media, Cbass, wasn’t kicked. In April, he took to Twitter to assert that “company f**ks” didn’t know what they were doing with the model.
The allegations in regards to the group could proceed as Rain continues to submit on his private accounts.
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