Popular Fortnite streamer Tfue takes Twitch hiatus, citing exhausting grind

polygon.com:

Turner “Tfue” Tenney, popular Fornite streamer with more than 11 million Twitch subscribers and ex-Faze Clan member, announced that he was going to take a serious break from “gaming and streaming.” On a tearful YouTube video, the controversial streamer shared his exhaustion over the grind of content creation.

In the 40-minute video, Tenney shares footage from his first Twitch livestreams and YouTube videos, and digs into his first impressions of Fortnite — a game that he thought was for kids. He also explains his reason for the hiatus, namely that he hasn’t had time for much of his life outside of gaming as a result of working six to eight hour days, and notes that he’s 25-years-old. “I used gaming to kind of escape from reality,” he said, in the YouTube video. “Now I use reality to escape from fucking work. I just feel fucking kinda trapped sometimes, you know.”

Tenney also mentions that he’s been a Twitch partner for eight years and thanks his fans, before acknowledging he needs to take a break. “I just need to take time off, you know,” he said. He thanks his family for supporting him through his “early career,” along with a number of livestreamers who he feels helped his career. At the end of the video he notes, “I’ll be back someday.”

Tenney has been a content creator since at least 2014, and rose to fame by livestreaming Fortnite — making a name as one of the top streamers of the battle royale game. He joined the Faze Clan content collective in 2018, before filing a lawsuit in 2019, claiming the organization withheld of share of brand deal revenue. In 2019, Tenney also made headlines because he used the n-word on a livestream while he was playing Minecraft. At the time, Twitch didn’t respond to The Verge’s request