Adin Live - December 26, 2025
Adin Ross EXPOSES Faze Clan...
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Summary
In this episode of the olden days, I talk about how I left the streaming giant, PhaseBank, and how it was one of the worst decisions I've ever made in my entire life. I also talk about why I left and why I felt it was the best decision I ever made.
Transcript
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merry christmas um from banks formerly known as phase banks
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what a terrible day what a terrible year i left phase five months ago dude um
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and this was sorry lico this wasn't for the camera this wasn't for twitter this was
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very very real um it was off the uh off the heels of some twitter drama and the boys were
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you know getting blown up in their comms and in their chats and as we all know in this world
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wacky strange world of streaming every last one of them are forced to appeal to their comms and
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their chats and narratives on twitter bro cake i can't even ban him lose viewers if they don't
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they take a hit financially to their career and this has a huge effect on who their friends
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are who they're in relationships with all of it everything um the way they treat each other
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online is completely 100 based and rooted in um the feedback that they get in real time
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from chats and comms so again as somebody an old man 34 years old you guys never let me
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forget it content who doesn't yo dude who doesn't have his own platform that's funny i'm not gonna
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that's funny it's impossible for me to create a narrative or control my narrative or really
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respond um not that i really give a to anyways but yeah all this drama is created and we get
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on a call five months ago and the guys are like listen we're over the drama wait face claim
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oh my bro bro bro bro bro stop we think it's best if you just like publicly step down from face
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just to cool down the drama online holy are you guys 10 years old are you guys 10 years old
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shut the up he acted very emotionally to this so annoying dude obviously took it very personally
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and was offended because again i used my entire network every dollar that i've ever made everything
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that i've ever had this brand that i built i used all of it as leverage to start these guys as a content
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group and to kick this off with the sole goal and intent to bring phase back to the top which we did
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we did that all collectively um over the last two years phases one org of the year twice and um yeah i was
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the first guy in the room these guys would have never lived in the house together if it wasn't
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for me these guys are all at minimum 10 times the size in terms of audience and platform now as before
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they joined phase i mean that is facts not all of them but that is facts that that's true that's true
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i mean guys again i'm not gonna take a side i'm not gonna be emotional i'm just gonna be logical
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what's facts and what's not facts okay that's facts but not all the guys not every phase number
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that is facts what he just said dude last one last thing i'm clicking on bro what is it
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okay yo henry listen to me you australian i'm gonna literally press charges on you because out
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there you cannot cyber bully out there and do like that so stop and off these guys have all made
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millions and millions and millions of dollars in the last two years and none of them could ever
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dispute the fact max just said it himself on his stream joining phase was one of the best decisions
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i ever made in my life i've heard that from lacy i've heard it from silky i've heard it from jason
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i've heard it from ron i've heard it from adapt i've heard it from every single person that's ever
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joined phase specifically these guys and i'm here to tell you as former phase banks this was one of
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the worst decisions i've ever made in my entire life i gave up my entire adult life to this i have put
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myself in millions and millions and millions of dollars in debt i have never made not one singular dollar
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outside of my salary to via phase not selling it not buying it raising money um i've just put myself
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further and further in debt um yeah i think phase to acquire and all the costs for these guys careers
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over the last two years i think ballpark 40 million bucks um wait what did you say last two years i think
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ballpark 40 million bucks and all the costs for these guys careers over the last two years i think
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ballpark 40 million bucks he's okay he's saying because he had a him and kalish teamed up to buy
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back phase that's what he means by that no no chat that's true you can look it up that's that's a
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literal you can look up how much did face cleanse you know i mean you can look that up that's public
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information that's a it's a it's a it's a um a public company with actual stock um
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um and i think probably collectively these guys have had to have probably made like
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20 million in the last two years collectively i would guess um and not one dollar of that 20
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million has ever gone back to phase never mind me even if it did did ever go back to phase that
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it's not mine um and i just can't believe it i can't believe i'm in this position now where people
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are calling for my head people are wishing my wishing for my death um people are telling me i
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ruined everyone's telling phase drug tweets so this one can't be fake right
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when phase all right i ruined phase guys i i i ruined it what i have my i swear to god
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i'm not going to anymore i'm done i'm not one saying anything that's going i'm not letting you
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guys bring that back bro it's just cringe on on in the last five months and i said all this sorry
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last pause and not everyone is i you guys are not laughing irl oh god you're not like y'all i like
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dude like that's what makes me so mad you guys just motion in the first place i ruined it i ruined it
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there's five six individuals who are five millionaires and have beautiful careers ahead
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and god bless you and i wish you guys the best and i ruined it um yeah the fact of the matter is if we
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went in a time machine two years back and i decided to never try to to fix this stage i'd be much better
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off i'd have more money and okay i don't like that statement here and i'm gonna tell you guys why
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i don't because you can't say you regret something right you obviously could say that like
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i get obviously he just wishes that it never got touched but but at that point guys we all remember
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phase was in the gutter at one point before this new phase came in that was in the gutter and little
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did you guys know i don't give a hell out now i say phase at one point why because whenever there
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was san diego twitchcon i went i did a moon pay deal and that funded phase to help him stay up
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i dropped the ball that's the truth they were in the gutter they were you know what i'm saying so
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that's what i'm trying to tell you guys bro like wait what did train just say
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you could say you regret something i regret not being in the stream when the picture of your sister was
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these kids would just be doing what they were doing before
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um it's hard for me to sit here and and take that it really is and um i plan on going live yo me yo
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i was talking with train a little bit about it happy on a good thank you guys last pause guys isn't
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it funny everyone wants to give these gamble streamers but like me x train we're the realest
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ones with the most valid takes if we don't give a like that's the truth banks let's start out banks
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train x real motherfuckers bro those guys are loyal loyal live tomorrow or the next days at some
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train just mobbed you he did sure well he's going live i plan on going live tomorrow or the next days
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at some point in the future and uh really kind of just laying it all out a to z start to finish the
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entire 15 year history of this specifically the last two years specifically the behind the scenes
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and the the dynamic between all the kids and the back end because i just watched this some clips
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from this black boy max stream where he's playing a laugh track over my tweet and it's like max i know
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we've had like our individual differences and i know i haven't really seen eye to eye with a lot of
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the talent because truthfully and honestly i find you guys incredibly ungrateful i find you guys all to
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have insane egos and i think it's disgusting and makes me sick to my stomach that your guys's
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relationships with each other and with every other streamer and your community included is
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so incredibly fake you guys are the best actors on planet earth and you've made a complete career
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out of all of it max these are your boys but these are the same guys that said they hated your guts
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after you left and you know you're the program and you have an ego the side you think you're travis scott
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and this and that and also like max multiple conversations about how ron's contents cringe and
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you guys didn't i ain't gonna lie this is gonna end bad i'm gonna tell you guys why
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oh my god it's so cooked guys i don't think there should be any more content ribs dude listen i'll
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explain why like that face look at the time i look at look at the pause look at the pause looks like i'm
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in the butt no but like dude like i don't know dude this is insane let me just this is crazy bro
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if that's real if he bank says he's gonna go on stream and pull up receipts tomorrow
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and if there's receipts of these members talking about each other's backs i mean people can get
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frustrated with one another but i don't really think that like i don't know i gotta see what
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these streams tomorrow with the dad none of you guys with lacy or jason in the beginning you guys
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didn't want these guys to live anywhere near you you barely wanted to share a brand with them
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but phase was gonna fund the miami house for you rage silky and case on so it we'll take what we can
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get and then it all worked and we forced this relationship and i was called a retard then and
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i was told that i was ruining phase and now two years later it wound up being the best thing that
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ever happened oh i remember that though everyone was honest i remember that oh my yo and that bro
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bro everyone was so mad but brian galabro phase boys they did it they proved that they proved me
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wrong they proved everyone wrong but they did it they did it bro so you understand why i'm sitting
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here and i'm frustrated i would hope i would hope anyone watching could sit here and understand why
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i would be frustrated while uh the entire hate mob is coming after me on christmas my first christmas
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without my mom when all i've ever wanted to do is help phase be successful that's all i've ever
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wanted to do that's the only intent where's the money i'm this guy who's trying to take everything
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from everybody where is it then why am i millions of dollars in debt where is it my my question is
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ricky and matt what how did you guys think you were gonna get your 40 million back
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i'm not joking answer the how could you recoup 40 million dollars oh draft king sponsor yeah that
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works but still it's like unless they're doing the the build-up company strategy where
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i don't know if this is their plans but they basically build up phase build up phase build up
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phase and then they sell it to another company then they make money off that but
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they're only i don't know it's in black boy max's bank account it's in silky's bank account it's in
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jason ronaldo lacy's bank account i wish this never happened i wish that i never did any of this damn
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and they'll all still tell you this was the best decision they ever made last pause i ain't gonna
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lie to y'all this is this is just gonna end bad on everyone like this is not gonna be a thing where
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it's like one-sided it's just it's gonna come out with both sides that make them both look wackest
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on the internet and like that's the truth like it's just gonna come out where people like yo he's
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weird for that he's weird for that nobody wins bro it's a it's gonna be a war in their life
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um i'm emotional and i'm passionate i'm never gonna i'm never going to apologize for that um
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anything that i do anything that i speak on anything that i work on any talent that i
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anything that i touch i will always be 100 two feet in that's just who i am
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um and everything that i'm telling you guys right now is straight facts
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it's dead wrong bro this is this is unfair it's unfair to drag me like this it's unfair
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to pin me as some horrible guy um facts nina fact of the matter is every single one of these guys
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wait you know would you ever box on brand risk has a bigger platform in an audience because they joined
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phase and met me and has millions and millions of extra dollars because they met me whereas i on the
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other hand i have lost years of my life to this and am significantly worse off financially
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okay significantly this has destroyed me my whole life has been completely destroyed in the last four
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or five months but nobody gives a because i don't have i don't have a twitch chat and i refuse to be
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one of the people to to just do what you guys are telling telling me to do i don't know guys this
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streaming is so fried it really is it actually is though narratives the clip it's so bad the the
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the appeal to comms and chat sounds good you know willingness to just you know it's funny everybody
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everybody looks at these streamers as guys and and people who have these massive audience and have
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influence over millions of people and can impose their opinions and their will on millions of people
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but it's not true it's the exact opposite the the the i agree the traditional influencer is dead
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these kids are the most heavily influenced people on the planet they are puppets attached to millions
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of strings and if their comms and i agree and chats say that the sky is red and they disagree
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and they say no no no chat i think it's blue i think it's blue once that viewer number starts to fall
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off once they start to see l's in their chat once they start to see hey heads in their he's right chat
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they switch up don't say you i say whatever i want to say you guys even get mad at me sometimes
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like i came out the women streamers why do y'all spin them in else like dude i'll like what the is
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this put some dubs uh banks say w real quick and it doesn't matter it doesn't matter about objective
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truth it's the sky is red i've been trying to talk to these guys for four or five months and
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they don't give a all they care about is their stream which is completely fine i don't need them to
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give a i don't need anybody to pretend to care um i'm i'm done pretending to care but
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if i had a hundred thousand viewers if my name was kai sanat they'd be on my they'd be welcoming
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me with open arms i would have a big red comfy chair at the streamer awards to hey come with us
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bro let's do a stream tomorrow like that's just what it is and you guys know that's what it is and
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anybody arguing against that is just completely lost these relationships are fraudulent the it's
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just it's it's fried bro it's fried and i'm happier than ever to be going my separate way and i'm glad
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that what happened happened five months ago i'm i'm happy to be to be off of it
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um there is no future for me in phase there is none that was my last try that was it
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there's nothing i have nothing left to give this i gave it my entire adult life and i tried my hardest
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and for anybody who's a fan of me and anybody who's a fan of do you guys think phase is like
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done done this time days i am sorry i've absolutely failed you damn and um the one thing i'm
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perfectly okay with taking accountability for is
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is being the root cause of all of this because at the end of the day i am this this is in a
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twisted way all my fault because at the end of the day i put these guys in a room at the end of
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the day i went and raised money um i convinced you know these business people that this vision and
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these guys were a good bet to take i thought in good faith that you know if we gave people careers
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if we gave everybody the best resources and it worked then everything else will figure itself out and
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and banks i feel the most bad for them honestly tommy as well yeah i feel the most bad for them as
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well chat because like were they doing this when we were kids bro you know it's sad so sad you know
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crazy i feel bad bro i'm so naive and retarded to have not made sure everything was
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better articulated and solidified and just like people were on the same page i don't know man i
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failed miserably um it's not the first l that i'm taking in my life it's not the first time i failed
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but um yeah i wish that in a weird way i do wish that i was closer to the fold the last four or five
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months i don't think that this all would have happened this way um
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i don't know man i don't know i really don't know what to do all right it's over chat what else to
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say i'm gonna give you guys my final what i think okay um i'm gonna be live on twitch because i have
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a lot a lot of examples of things that have happened in the back end in the background this
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can't end well guys receipts it's not gonna oh my goodness book i ain't gonna lie bro y'all remember
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when he did tifu bad bro i love tifu but he i ain't gonna lie bro about everything everything
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where i went wrong where i feel other people went wrong um yeah merry christmas y'all i'm sorry
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i'm not saying he's gonna do face bad my point i'm trying to make is it's it this just can't end
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well this is it this is the end for both sides for both parties peace okay so these guys had
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free housing free filmers and staff all face channels zero percent income shared bear money
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and platform all skyrocketed meeting me but i'm the bad guy okay guys this is my final take on the
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face it it's it's very simple both sides are in the wrong okay both sides are 100 the wrong
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banks and matt kalish before anything banks and matt kalish should have made sure they signed off on the
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banks and matt kalish you guys up banks and matt kalish you guys messed up because initially with
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the announcement video you guys were supposed to make them sign either stating that they got to pay rent
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or for all these expenses or or equity you guys waited two years later that's the issue
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that's why the face boys are in the outcome the way it is are in the right but i do a 1 million
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percent see where he's coming from it's just both bad right you could argue that not all of them
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because again like ron rage they're already there you could argue that the new guys that signed they
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came in they they got to have the free housing the filmers the all that stuff and you could argue that
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that that helped them become the size they are today as a streamer um but yeah dude like obviously
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phase helped everybody right it's an org it didn't help the business side of things though guys and
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that's why that's why this is where it is that's it that's it the business side of phase
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that's that's what that's why it is the way it is that's it and that's it guys i think you guys all
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understand um phase just isn't profitable okay it's an org and the only way an org can be profitable
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is again if you build up a company you sell it in a couple years to oh no a stake or amazon right
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or um an agency there's no other way to profit except make them or do specific brand deals to
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help recoup that's my final take it's that simple but i think tomorrow if he goes live and then you
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get this guy going up it's not going to be good bro so guys in conclusion here who do you guys think's
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in the wrong phase boys banks or both i'm going with both i'm going with both i'm going with both
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i'm going both um mainly but i would say it's like a 65 35 i think that um guys i just realized
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it though put yourself in like max's shoes though two years later they come running after yo you got
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to sign this 20 or you got to pay rent and you got to pay these i'm saying no what the i'm already
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making millions of dollars why the would i give up my like so i feel them for that that's
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why i'm not mad at that like it's a business bro it's a business same way i got dropped from steak
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it's the same way guys there's no such thing as friends in business and that's facts and i don't
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know what that conversation looked like with banks and mac telling the phase boys yo you know you have
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to sign this 20 document i don't know i wasn't there in that room but the phase boys i feel you put
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yourself in their shoes i'm not signing that shower y'all if i'm already averaging over 10 000
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viewers making millions of dollars i'm not signing i'm just be real i'm i'm being real i'm not signing
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i'm not signing i'm sorry i'm not i'm not i'm not and i just think it's such a up misunderstanding
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because bro banks back in 2021 at the peak when i was getting a hundred thousand viewers live on twitch
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hella phase guys sign sign sign feels like right like nah don't do it don't do it but i don't know
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everything guys i'm not in these conversations i'm not on an nda i'm not on a phase contract i can't
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tell you what happens in these meetings what i can tell you is in this specific outcome
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i've already expressed how it is that's it we gotta wait till tomorrow but that's how that's my take
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that's my that's my take all right that's it i think tomorrow though did you see lows or low say
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i have to tell you what's going on phase clan all the members are leaving face clan face plan
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it's kind of funny um but yeah dude yeah what do you guys think chat what's your take wait
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one of you don't want to bear bad news right but this whole phase thing like it's gonna come to a
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halt very soon as the pressure has turned up because reality is you guys know i have no equity in this
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right you're under no contracts right and soon enough one of the one of the one way the other one
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of you guys gonna want more right bro look at this sweet sam i swear to god bro i swear to god
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god don't do it to me bro i can't i can't see it my i'm on like a weird account but yeah that's it bro
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that's it let uh let she keep playing though and if it's gonna break the cohesion of the group
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because you guys are getting kind of you guys are getting enrolled right now low key
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next i'll be surprised if this lasts another year we're not even talking about equity
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all that we're trying to see if we can make some money it's okay see ron is level-headed and he's
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smart i know he's like talking about that on stream but ron is right like dude how could how can
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them how could the phase guys make the money like they could drop phase clan shoes um i don't know
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exactly i kane i agree with you i agree with you dude listen i fully agree with you
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i do five star on your ass guys i really don't give a about communities i i don't even look at my
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own community every streamer hates their com like a i love my community my chat but i don't look at
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my twitter com every single streamer hates their twitter comms bro i can't look at that um and i'm
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i've been happier ever since i told you guys last time the happiest ever been it's probably don't take
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that calm no more but um of course they're gonna be upset bro i don't blame them of course they're
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gonna take max aside i'm also taking the boy's side in a way too because if so if if somebody comes
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knocking on my door while i'm making millions of dollars yo bro you gotta sign this 20 percent