Who Is Jarvis And Why Is He Crying About Fortnite?

Jarvis "Jarvis" Khattri is a 17-year-old Fortnite professional player from the United Kingdom, and his life is cooler and better than his. He plays competitively for the FaZe Clan. If that name sounds familiar, it's probably because FaZe Clan appeared in the news earlier this year when another of his Fortnite players, Turner ‘Tfue’ Tenney, sued him for allegedly not paying him several times.

When he's not playing competitively, Jarvis posts videos on his incredibly popular YouTube channel, which currently has 2 million subscribers. His channel consists of a mix of instructional videos, acrobatics related to the FaZe Clan and absurd challenges that Jarvis gives himself for playing Fortnite. The thumbnails of his videos are incredibly colorful because that is what makes people click on them.


The viral video of Jarvis recently is of the genre of "apologies" that YouTube personalities have perfected in recent years, and Jarvis is crying because he has been badly screwed. He uploaded a video in which he used software widely known as "aimbots" that automatically provided him with perfect precision, similar to a machine, when shooting at his opponents. Obviously, this counts as a trap, and it is something for which Fortnite developer Epic Games has a zero tolerance policy, so Jarvis is now permanently banned from playing Fortnite.

So now Jarvis, whose life and career seem to revolve around Fortnite, can no longer play Fortnite. Well, I am sure that, in theory, you can open a new account and make a minimal technical effort to avoid any prohibition, but in general it is not good that Epic Games has started it.

Anyway, Jarvis is very sorry, he's crying, he says he can barely get the video, etc. Obviously, cheating in a video game is fun if you are the only one who cheats, but in general it is somewhat lame and not great. do. Epic Games should not and cannot tolerate this kind of behavior because it ruins the fun for everyone else in one of the most popular and profitable games ever created.

On the other hand, as Patricia Hernández in Polygon rightly points out, it is strange that Jarvis obtains a lifelong ban while playing at home, while a professional player who was caught cheating in a competitive tournament only obtained a temporary ban.

Also, my heart is with Jarvis, who, like many of us online, just tries to survive by producing content that people want to see, read and interact. This guy posts several videos a week and it's about Fortnite. How many videos about Fortnite can be made before making a video about cheating on Fortnite? I feel that at the rate that a creator was publishing, it would eventually come to a video trap, if only for a process of elimination.

I don't know how many views Jarvis made the video trap because he removed it, but his apology video is already four times more popular than any video he has made in the last five months. And in that sense, Jarvis is more successful than ever