FaZe Lacy breaks down after subathon ends in 15 minutes

CJ Published December 16, 2024

FaZe streamer Nick “Lacy” Fosco started screaming at his viewers after his subathon abruptly ended.

FaZe Lacy became a streamer earlier this year and has started to blow up on Twitch. He already has over 1.1 million followers on Twitch, where he largely plays Fortnite and does Just Chatting streams. While Lacy has often been praised for his personality, including one college student even doing a presentation on him, he recently had a major crash out during a poorly planned marathon stream.

Here’s what happened during FaZe Lacy’s 15-minute subathon.

Why did FaZe Lacy’s subathon end so quickly?

FaZe Lacy’s subathon ended after 15 minutes because he didn’t gain enough subscribers to stay live.

During a subathon, the goal is to gain subscribers who pay a certain amount each month to be subscribed. Every time someone subscribes, the subathon is extended. This is why some streamers have ended up streaming for months, even years.

However, FaZe Lacy’s stream didn’t make it past 15 minutes. The reason FaZe Lacy’s stream was so short is due to each new sub only extending the subathon timer by one second at a time. The extremely short time each sub added had some fans wondering if FaZe Lacy didn’t actually plan to stream for a long time and was just trolling even though it was technically uncapped.

Still, FaZe Lacy was visibly freaking out as the timer counted down. He kept screaming at his viewers, asking why they wouldn’t gift any subs to keep the subathon going. Some fans even noted that it looked like he was going to cry. Still, some started telling him to “put the fries in the bag,” sick of streamers’ “begging” antics.

Recently, FaZe Lacy complained on stream that his income had significantly lowered as of late. He claimed during a stream that he went from making $10,000 a day to $2,000 a day. The streamer claimed something was wrong with his ad revenue, leading to this downfall. After revealing this, he told his fans that he doesn’t stream for fun and is doing it for money. He added: “If this is all I’m going to make, I’ll just go be a mailman.”

When his likely fake subathon ended, many gamers online joked that he should just become a mailman instead, referencing the content creator’s rage bait stream.

This isn’t the first time that a streamer’s subathon teetered on the bring on collapse. Ludwig Ahgren, who built a massive fanbase super fast during his Twitch subathon before switching to YouTube, almost saw his subathon end multiple times. But when fans saw it coming to a conclusion, they’d gift more subs to keep the stream going. It ended up lasting 31 days, a record at the time.