Middle School Dropout to Fortnite Millionaire: The Story of Clix

It's July 31, 2019, and a young Cody Conrad sat his father down at the kitchen table and told him he was ready to drop out of high

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for just about any other dad in the world. This would have been very easy, no, however, just a few days before having this talk, 14-year-old Cody had won $162,000 playing Fortnite. The boy who would become one of the world's richest teenagers, the world's most successful gamers, and a major content creator started right here, Cody Conrad. Also known as Clicks he was born on January 7, 2005 in Connecticut, where he began playing at a very young age.

When he was around 5 years old, I started playing video games. I didn't have a PC, but my brother was that age. I think he was 13 or something, he had a PC and I would always sneak into his room and play Call of Duty zombies. The first game I played was Minecraft and then I realized that my dream is to become a professional gamer, but there was only one problem: you can't make money with professional mcraft, whatever that really means, but luckily , just a few years later, a new game was about to come out that would capture the hearts of kids and adults alike and it was called Fortnite.

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fortnite is attracting millions of players fortnite Battle Royale released in September 2017 and was a huge success and a young clicker saw this as an opportunity.

I was playing Minecraft and I knew there was no way to necessarily make money and I watched fortnite and I was confident that fortnite would blow up and I could possibly make a living or have a career outside of fortnite, the problem is clicks I didn't have a PC yet, have Keep in mind that he is only 13 years old, but he knew it. He wanted to be a professional gamer and that's why he needed a PC in his mind, so the next few clicks would change his life forever. He approached his father with an offer he couldn't refuse.

Come on, dad, dad. Goes. You know, if you buy. I have a really cool computer. I can do it very well. He could be a professional player. I can make a lot of money with it, so I promise you that I will be able to make the money back at the end of the summer, which was 3 months. and he made a contract, he made me work with him for a while and also try to make money with what I told him I could do, they even signed a contract and with clicks he got the computer he always dreamed of and he got to work . in just a few weeks I was making money and 2 and a half weeks later, he says dad, dad, you know, guess how much money I made, guess how much money I made, I say, I don't know, $200 goes, no, no, no, look at this .

So I looked into a PayPal account and he made $1,035 in 2 and 2 weeks and although $11,000 is not enough to live off of this, it was a very large amount of money for a boy who was barely 13 years old and this was all through bets that had not done. He didn't even start playing in professional tournaments, at the same time he got his new clicks on the computer, he also started his YouTube account and the first video of him was uploaded on April 21, 2018 and it is titled Amazing build battle in fortnite And you can see it. It was just that, a building battle in Fortnite, no talking, no music or anything at all, just your thoughts and some pretty sick builds, but hey, every creator has to start somewhere right and not worry about the next video on whichever is clicked would load into the Fortnite solo victory montage. smiley face 15 kills has some soft low fives be aware so he's clearly a quick learner and just by watching these videos it's clear that clicks are a lot more talented than the average 13 year old fortnite player and when i say a lot more i mean say a lot more and Clicks wanted to show these skills to more people than just all the gambling boys who appeared on his streams, but luckily for Clicks there was a big Fortnite tournament just around the corner where he could do exactly that.

The Fortnite World Cup was announced on March 25, 2019. This event was one of the biggest tournaments in the hi

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of esports. 10 weeks of qualifying rounds with a $10 million prize pool, plus a giant tournament in New York City with an extra $30. million prizes, that is, 40 million dollars in total, which, of course, is a great opportunity for anyone, let alone a 13-year-old child. Of course, an opportunity like this would make anyone excited to have a little fun, but it was bigger for the young Cody he knew. that this was his chance to prove to his father that all of his enemies were wrong and were also professionals, that he was serious when he said he was going to be a professional player in February 2019.

The clicks They were still very unknown. His carcass had just arrived. 1,000 subscribers and here is your montage to celebrate that I think you need a light for ideas. I'm in a splash zone with the waves. My goal was fortunately for clicks, however, I ended up connecting with a duo called skeptic skeptic was in one. One of the largest gaming organizations of this era was called Misfits Gaming and when they were preparing to try to qualify for the World Cup together, Misfits decided to offer Clicks a contract so that they could represent both halves of this dynamic duo, apparently the contract seemed too good.

To be true for clicks we'll pay you $2500 a month just to be on Misfit and play with Skeptics so my 13 year old self is like I'm in eth degree this is sick so sign he didn't even read I. I'll be honest, that was stupid, but they didn't finish, however, other than that, he officially joined the organization on April 5th, right before the first week of World Cup qualifiers and these qualifiers They were the biggest tournaments that Clicks or skeptic had competed in before before this, Clicks had played some cash cups like the Share Love Cup and the Blackheart Cup, but those were small competitions compared to the World Cup and Clicks knew it, so he put his heart and soul into the Cup. first week of qualifiers and placed 83rd in NA East, although this probably wasn't the placement he wanted, he still played incredibly well for a kid who was playing in his first massive tournament, but instead of giving up, he returned to the group. game and competed in the Week 2 qualifiers with his Duo partner Skeptic Skeptic was already well known in the Fortnite community at the time, having blown up on Twitch and YouTube after killing tfue on the stream and this highlight video He now has 10 million views on YouTube after that video exploiting the skeptic regularly received millions of views on his videos.

It was truly an overnight success. Clicks and skeptic together seemed like a perfect combination. Two of the youngest professional Fortnite players, both in the same organization, couldn't be better. for the two of them, so they entered the World Cup Week 2 qualifiers and managed to get a second place in NA East, this meant that the two of them were going straight to the World Cup in New York City no matter what happened. In this competition and on top of that, the young players won $4,000 each on top of the guaranteed $50,000 they would each receive for attending the World Cup, but the clicks didn't stop there.

Qualifying for duos was great, but he wanted to qualify for solos even more and the clicks just did it. that, in fact, throughout the 10 weeks of the qualifiers, clicks would technically qualify for the World Cup five times, three times solo and twice in duos, when the qualifiers ended, clicks had already earned $2,250 even before to set foot in New York City and due to the success in the qualifiers and the duet with the skeptics, his social networks began to receive more attention also after all the qualifiers for the World Cup, the clicks were regularly getting dozens of thousands of views on his YouTube channel, unlike when he only got a couple hundred.

Before the World Cup Final took place at Arthur Ash Stadium in New York City on July 26, 27, and 28, 2019, this was Click's chance to show everyone what a good Fortnite player he is. what it was and those 10 weeks of playoffs. All of the above up to this point we want to introduce you to the players, so we will have the first group coming on stage and in that group we have Crimson Spades clicks and Skeptics PF Zin and nicks arram and Falconer and then Lenard and Tyler 15, a lot of people keep their eyes on the clicks and is skeptical because the rise in clicks throughout the fortnite world cup online openings has been meteoric, many people are wondering how it will perform on stage.

First, it was duets, clicks and skeptics. We were up against the best of the best not only in America but across the entire Fortnite world and after a stellar performance in the playoffs, they were definitely a team that everyone was looking out for, unfortunately, however, the team didn't. as well. did well as expected and after the six games were over they placed 35th out of 50 teams, although this placement was a bit disappointing, they were still going home with a whopping $50,000 just for participating, which is obviously a huge amount of money for anyone. Only one 13 or 14 year old boy, fortunately for the clicks, also qualified for the solo tournament that would take place the next day.

This gave him the opportunity to make up for the low ranking from the previous day, unlike his skeptical Duo who had only qualified for duos with clicks, many big names of course, we will start with tfue. You've got the two young no-click warriors and the epic whale known for taking on walls, taking names and moving on doing everything he can to stop his opponents, yes, absolutely clicks. One of the players to fully qualify for both Solos and Duos, Clicks managed to place an incredible 18th in the solo finals, earning him $112,000. Almost anyone in the world would have been ecstatic to surpass 18th place in the Fortnite World Cup, but Clicks just knew. he could have done better, this is so sad bro.

I really just threw this out. I'm so angry, brother. Should have gotten top 10 easy, bro. However, when all was said and done, Clicks went home with a whopping $162,000 which, as I said before, is a huge amount of money, especially for Cody who was now only 14 years old, however, no Everything at the World Cup had gone exactly as planned and because of this, just a few hours after the solo World Cup games ended, Clicks tweeted that he would be looking for a new Duo Partner surprising many of his teammates. Mega, another very popular Fortnite player at the moment responded to his tweet saying why 'you leave skeptical and click he simply replied I don't think we fit as a duo Mr.

Mega and it didn't seem like The skeptic took the breakup well as his tweet It felt a little passive-aggressive. He tweeted. I clicked away looking for a new duo that believes in teamwork and chemistry. Someone in the replies to the skeptics' tweet said the clickers were clearly someone with a big ego, they said. this was obvious guys the day you qualified ego started clicking skeptic and everyone claimed the clicks were done no one wants to be in a duo with that toxicity skeptic he is a well rounded player who plays well competitively and will perform at a high level in future events. the skeptic responded with a simple Ty and a heart emoji, whether it was about this fight or not, the whole situation was complicated enough that on July 31 the skeptic left Misfits completely and the clickers ended up wishing him the best in his answers, however, it's not clear if the skeptic left the org because of the split with clicks or if it was just a coincidence, but one thing is for sure.

I don't think these two are going to be a duo anytime soon after the World Cup. The clicks returned to Connecticut, but I quickly realized that after the World Cup. Copa, his life would never be the same, there was no way he could go back to public

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after becoming one of the top professional Fortnite players in the world. The summer of 8th grade was the World Cup, that's when I won 170 thousand dollars and my dad said: It was super convincing, like I really had to convince him that this is the right decision for me: to go to school online and not abandon it completely.

Luckily, Click's parents were very supportive of his gaming career, and to be fair, he had just won hundreds of thousands. dollars, so I'm sure that helped convince them, so now that Clicks is completely free from school, he can get back to doing what's really important: finding out who he's playing with in the next Fortnite tournament, and luckily , Fortnite was about to change. from the boring duos to a very new, fun and exciting trios game mode, that's why everything was shaken up and everyone was looking for a new team, not just clicks, so clicks decided to play with some older players, Spades and crims, during seasonfrom fncs.

The team found success very quickly with a first place win in Series 4 and a 7th place finish in the Grand Final, in addition to success within the game, Clicks were finding a lot of success outside of Fortnite and on their social media accounts, His streams averaged 10 to 15,000 viewers and sometimes during tournaments reached up to 40,000 simultaneous viewers, it was clear that Clicks was quickly becoming one of the biggest names in Fortnite June 27, 2022 , however, Clicks mysteriously posted a contract signing giveaway, implying that he was leaving Misfits to sign with another orc and of course this got people speculating all over the place and at the time most people were convinced that this new organization would be phase, they had a hi

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of hiring Fortnite professionals who had a large following online, so it made sense and given that Clicks was one of the biggest players in the world and FaZe was the largest organization of the world at the time, it seemed like a perfect match, however, we still didn't know if this gift meant he would do it.

He would be signing with a new orc, for all we know he bought a new car or a new house or something else he had to buy with fancy signing papers, but then Ronaldo posted a tweet showing that the clicks had removed the misfits from his biography like you. You can see in the clicks bio that he used to say play for Misfits now he says player for nothing. This all but confirmed that Clicks would be leaving Misfits and sure enough, on July 1, 2020 it was announced that Clicks would be joining NRG and this announcement. The video was a little crazy, do you think you could call?

In that favor for me, yeah, I got you bro, thank you so much bro, we just found a new player and we need them to announce him for real, okay, anything whatever you need, Benji, you know, I got you, I love you, I love you, baby, NRG, clicks, welcome to. the family, yes, your eyes are not deceiving you, that was Shaquille O'Neal, like the basketball player, the one who makes an announcement for the Fortnite organization. I was as surprised as you guys and in August 2020 things got even better with the clicks as he hits one of the biggest milestones you can reach on YouTube, the clicks hit 1 million subscribers and they release this montage reminding me that I'm trying to reach 100,000 subscribers before the end of this year, so if you enjoy my videos and wouldn't mind leaving them. a sub, it would mean a lot to me anyway, back to the video, so August was quite a hectic month for clicks, as on August 19th he would also move into Anar G's fortnite house with unknown and nervous Ronaldo, welcome to the NRG house.

NRG Ronaldo, we have unknown nervous clicks, let me let me show you around, let me show you the house, but just because he has joined a content house doesn't mean he is ready to give up on the pro gaming side that same day in the house. The tour was uploaded. Clicks took first place in a Trio Cash Cup with Cal and Mawood, plus Fortnite content in this NRG house. The guys clicked created a ton of IRL content and also uploaded fascinating videos like Ronaldo to the NRG channel. helping clicks and strangers and their problems. This was the first time Clicks really dabbled in IRL content because most of the videos on Click's YouTube channel were all highlights and gameplay clips, aside from the occasional Vlog of live events.

This was the first time we really got to see the clicks and his personality outside of the game and, surprisingly, his personality outside of the stream was almost exactly the same as his personality on the stream. We have clicks here. It's going to be Hest, it could fall, friend, you're taking a risk, you're taking a risk. your life back I just know I'm dead from the Instagram backlash and when I do T and I think this is a big reason why people like to click so much because you seem really genuine when you watch their videos it doesn't feel like was assuming a character, he is really himself and the numbers reflect it.

He was drawing an average of 50,000 viewers during his time at NRG's home and in November of that year the entire NRG team would move to the west coast. In mind, Clicks has only been doing all this for 15 years. He was doing homework or something at 15, you don't know, playing professional Fortnite and traveling around the world. I mean, it was crazy since Clicks was so young during all of this, of course, his father. I'm coming for a walk I'm the NRG house I'm a guy who hangs around and MC garbage right now what I'm doing is trying some food.

I'm making sure they are quality kitchen chocolate chip cookies for these gamers who were. It amazes me that their son is a superstar because they feel like they were made for the camera. I don't know about you, but Click's dad seems like a big W throughout this entire story. A big greeting. Anyway, for Mr. Clicks, in the new house, the NRG team continues creating content in real life while crushing it in Fortnite. In the first few months of 2021 alone, Clicks earned three first-place finishes in professional tournaments, which would include two C Cup wins and the first.

Dream hack open 2021 and he didn't get those wins alone, he didn't have a duo or trio, he played with other great pros, however, for a time like day, Reed waved Jacob bizel and even boa, the winner of the Cup of the World, and In addition to winning all these professional Fortnite tournaments, the content continued to appear. Click start your second channel called More Clicks on May 21, 2021 and guess what this channel uploaded. They know more clicks. Honestly, there isn't much difference between more clicks. and the main Clicks channel, but hey, I'm not complaining about getting more Clicks content throughout 2021.

Clicks would start collaborating a lot with his fellow streamer. Somerset playing with a streamer girl seemed to be really good for his numbers and really good for YouTube clickbait clicks. I would upload a lot of videos like these uh I was the bully in high school The thing about me was small because I wanted to be big because I thought you were yeah okay you know you mean no that's not what I was posting yeah , you. The guys get the picture, but the content worked really well and I honestly think the two of them are very entertaining together.

Comment below if you think the clicks should be with Somerset or if she's better off with Blake for the clicks. Things were going absolutely amazing in Fortnite. He performed well in the game and in content creation and the next step for Clicks was to follow another passion outside of Fortnite which turned out to be clothing, so on November 12, 201, 21 Clicks would take another big step in his career by launching your own clothes. brand dreaman and this was not your typical YouTuber Merch, this was something much more elevated and it was like a street fashion brand, it was really amazing and the first collection absolutely appeared in just 2 days after the store opened, they had already had 2,600 orders.

To be honest, I even have four or five dream t-shirts, so click if you're watching this and want to send me a free t-shirt or two, let me know anyway. Clearly, 2021 was a huge year for clicks, but 2022 was going to be the same. I promise the biggest thing and a big part of this was because Clicks was about to make the biggest announcement of his entire career on February 22, 2022. Clicks announced that his contract with NRG was officially over and a lot of people in the chat thought I was joking. here is the official Twitter post as proof that this announcement was massive for the Fortnite community.

Click had already been with NRG for 2 years, but one of Click's best friends, Ronaldo, had just left NRG, so people suspected it and thought it made sense, so now Clicks was as a free agent could join any orc who wanted to or maybe will create his own orc, maybe even spend a little time as a free agent and find himself as an individual, however, people didn't have to speculate for long. long because two days later, the clicks would announce their future plans, how about a new energy? Duo wait wait, are you saying today is the day, today is the day, yeah clicks quit NRG basically fooling us all?

I mean, honestly, I definitely knew I was going to do it. he quit NRG all along, but at least he had some fun announcing it and left everyone in suspense after quitting, he moved to a new content house in New Jersey with Bucky and on July 2022, I'm serious , elf brother. go run run go get it catch it oh my god what the hell is it yeah no comments on that intro anyway the team continued creating IRL content for the nrt channel while Clicks was creating amazing content for Fortnite on your personal social networks. Bucky's a little bigger since I last saw him, I'm a little nervous, me or not, you know what I'm saying, click, click, he's a little bigger too, just in a different way, but what, okay, come on, run, come on. no, no, come on, this is just a bit of practice after the summer house rental ran out, clicks moved into a new house on his own, totally separate from NRG and was clearly doing pretty well at that moment because his house was apparently worth over a million dollars and guess what he was still humble about it, so this is my room, this is the master bedroom, I don't know how to mess this up, but obviously I'm going, I'm going to, you know .

Lucky situation to be able to afford this. Thank you all so much, seriously we thought you guys could afford this so comment and like below and honestly I think that's another reason why people love clicks so much no matter how much money receive. You get that his personality has never changed, he's still the same goofy kid from Connecticut who signed a deal with his dad to get his first gaming PC, but as the clicks increased, so did his content and some of the videos he posts weren't exactly family friendly and advertiser friendly and this would get him in trouble with his organization and RG and on top of that, Fortnite as an esport was disappearing, I mean Fortnite as a casual game was big then it was big now and it probably will be . big forever but the Esports team had become somewhat extinct because of this, many organizations were removing their teams from Fortnite completely and the clicks included in NRG would actually leave NRG this time on January 26, 2023 voice CRA, no believe.

You know, I don't think we were ever going to film this, but if you didn't see the Tweet that's going to be here, I'm officially out of power and this was something I never thought would happen. I ended up going into more detail about why NRG left it on the stream, it no longer has power, the problem with Fortnite orgs honestly is that no org makes any money. I'm going to be honest, no, no Fortnite organization makes money right now because Fortnite isn't really a Fortnite organization. or friendly, so it got to the point where it's like Energy is paying me like my salary is a ton and it's like they can't afford it, you know what I'm saying, if Fortnite gets sponsored, they can't afford it.

They can't afford to keep me Energy's decision was 100% right you know what I'm saying like they couldn't they can't bro they were just paying me a salary out of pocket they were just losing now my salary was. the highest in Fortnite by far, you know what I'm saying, so it's like they're just losing money. What they did was 100% smart because they're not making money off of me off of sponsors, but let's say, um, I. It was family, you know, family, Nick a30, brother. I'd be flowing in 200, 300, 400 grand a month, bro, but it is what it is now that the clicks are finally gone, unlike last time he didn't just say psychology. and resigned for the first time since before the World Cup, Clicks was a free agent, but just because Clicks didn't have or didn't mean he was going to stop creating content, in fact, leaving NRG hardly seems to affect him at all anytime soon.

After Fortnite announced the new central servers, Clicks moved to Texas, more specifically Dallas, and got a $5 million apartment and just a reminder, Clicks is still a teenager, he had just turned 18 when he got his spot on Dallas, the new place in Dallas. Well, if you guys didn't know the Fortnite news, their West and East servers came up to make central servers, so now the servers are in Dallas and I know you guys are saying, "Wow, they really moved for Fortnite and I'm leaving." To be honest, I made things as good as possible for a young Cody, however, in April 201, 23, things took a turn for the worse, tragedy occurred and Click's account was allegedly banned for team chat.

I'm B for two weeks. um if you didn't know this means I can't play this fncs in the grand finals and I also can't play the next fncs um in a month that means I can't go to the ground event that means I can't go to the event terrestrial and basicallyI can't play for the next 4 months for fncs. This ban was a devastating blow to Click's career, especially since he had just moved to Texas to play Fortnite and no one wants to move to Texas to No reason, what did you say? Texas is over. The clicks continue to show the exact match he was banned for and honestly I think the ban is a bit messed up.

I know this is like a year later and it doesn't matter anymore, but. #frequent clicks anyway, this was all due to a stream sniper who was playing with the clicks towards the end of the game. The streaming sniper drops a pizza for the clickers and without thinking picks it up, then the streaming sniper continues to approach the clickers, resulting in His removal from the game shows how problematic sniping is for professionals, as the clickers Not only are they a nuisance but they can completely ruin people's careers, unfortunately due to these clicks their ban could not be lifted and after two weeks Clicks made a triumphant return, although Clicks was very excited to have it removed The ban, still not allowed to compete in the FNC in May of that year due to the epic Click situation, ended up changing the rules later, so now players with a 14 day ban. they are only banned in one tournament instead of two, but unfortunately that rule didn't exist until Clicks had to miss two fncs at a bit of a low point, now that he just moved to a new place and can't even play the game he loves .

Clicks was finally allowed to return to the competitive world of Fortnite and luckily for him, he returned just in time to play in the FNC Last Chance Majors on August 20, 2023. He and his new Epic Whale Duo placed fourth place in North America which guarantees them a Copenhagen land spot unfortunately for clicks and epic whale however they didn't have the best performance in Copenhagen but it was still amazing to qualify while clicks were banned In Fortnite, he was able to explore IRL content creation even more than before. and it turns out he was pretty good at it, some of his IRL videos, like surprising a fan with his dream gaming setup, got three times more views than his normal Fortnite content.

Why are you complaining so much even after the clicks were unlocked from Fortnite and continued? to play in Copenhagen and more, he continued making these types of videos and eventually things went back to normal, but of course this is Fortnite. The people at YouTube are always working and coming up with new ways to expand their brand so nothing stays the same for long. and on October 10, 2023, Clicks was about to make the biggest announcement of his entire career on a daily basis. I probably consume enough green juice to feed all of Dallas, Texas, for at least a month.

I run 5-10 miles a day for exercise green juice to save concentration masturbate to de-stress and fortnite for fun after a very fun first half of the video the clicks finally made their announcement we have acquired a majority stake in the output this was a massive clicking movement and honestly something we've never seen before: some professionals like Llin will end up creating their own organizations after they retire, but buying an existing organization and putting yourself on the list is quite unheard of and the power that comes with the clicks is quite big. It's only been a couple of months since Clicks joined exet, so not much has happened with or yet, but I'm very interested to see where this partnership goes and I'm sure they have a lot of fun things planned for all of us.

The craziest thing about the clicks is that he has accomplished everything we talked about today even before turning 20 and at the time of making this video he had just turned 19 in January, so no matter what happens next, it's clear that the clicks are incredibly successful and This is nowhere near the end of their story, in fact, it's just the beginning. If you enjoyed this video, click here and watch another one and don't forget to like and subscribe. I love you all and see you next time