Fuslie

Leslie Ann Fu (born: November 23, 1992 (1992-11-23) [age 32])^{[citation needed]}, better known online as fuslie (pronounced "fooz-ly"), is an American^{[citation needed]} YouTuber and former Twitch streamer known for her gameplay on Grand Theft Auto V roleplay, League of Legends, Valorant, Among Us, Gartic Phone, Suika Game, and other games.

Personal Life

Fuslie has Chinese parents in the San Francisco Bay Area where she grew up. She attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. In 2014, she would graduate from the University of California, Irvine, earning a bachelor's degree in biological sciences. She had attended graduate college in the University of California, Los Angeles before dropping out to pursue streaming full-time.^[1]

In April 2019, Fuslie and fellow livestreamer Edison Park became a couple after dating for 3 years, but later broke up in 2021.^[2]

Career

YouTube career

Fuslie created her YouTube channel on August 7, 2015, where she would begin uploading vlogs and music videos. Her first video, titled "VLOG -1- LCS SEMIFINALS + BDAY FUN - august 15, 2015", was uploaded on August 15, 2015.

Twitch career

She began Twitch streaming on February 21, 2015, and became partnered on September of 2015. After dropping out of college, she began streaming full-time in 2016.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2018, Fuslie and fellow Twitch streamer BoxBox hosted a 4-day streaming boot camp known as "Streamer Camp" on Twitch, an event aimed at improving the skills of up-and-coming streamers and content creators alike. A second season of the event was held in June 2019^[3], and the 2020 season of the camp was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^{[citation needed]}

On December 2, 2019, Fuslie held a charity stream for the program Stand Up to Cancer^[4], with her and her viewers raising over $30,000 by the time it ended. On May 12, 2021, she had joined gaming organization 100 Thieves as a content creator.^[5]

On September 6, 2022, Fuslie announced on YouTube and Twitter that she would stop streaming on Twitch and begin livestream on YouTube.^[6][7] Her first YouTube livestream would be broadcasted the next day.^[8]

April Fooze

For more information, see April Fooze at the NoPixel Wiki.

In roleplay GTA V, Fuslie has a game character and alter ego which is a virtual musical artist named "April Fooze", which has made her well known among the roleplay GTA V community and in her audience. "April Fooze" is most likely a pun based on April Fool's Day and Fuslie's last name, Fu, and her profession as a musical artist is also reminiscent of Fuslie's covers.^{[citation needed]}

Music career

On February 18, 2021, Fuslie along with Drew.0 released an animation song titled "Sabotage" (2021) which was about Among Us^[9], and was featured in Harris Heller's "What If" (2021) two days later, on February 20.^[10]

On August 12, 2021, Fuslie had gained 1 million followers on Twitch^[11] and was also featured in Bella Poarch's music video "Inferno" (2021) with other fellow streamers, including Valkyrae, Pokimane, and Sykkuno.^[12] She has also done covers of various musical artists on her YouTube channel, such as Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling In Love With You" (1961)^[13], WHAM!'s "Last Christmas" (1984)^[14] (which she also performed on one of QTCinderella's A Christmas Concert)^[15], and Justin Bieber's "Ghost" (2021).^[16]

Controversy

Cheating allegations

NoahJ456 was caught up in drama after he was accused of cheating on his then-wife Martina by MrTLexify in a video posted by MrTLexify on August 7, 2024.^[17] In the video, MrTLexify claimed, Noah allegedly cheated on his then-wife Martina in 2021 at the Las Vegas music festival Electric Daisy Carnival with the youtuber Fuslie. MrTLexify's video was posted as a response to abuse allegations being levied at him by his ex-girlfriend, Reagan McNulty. On August 8, 2024, Noah responded to the claims, admitting to the affair and apologizing live on stream. In a video that is no longer available on Noah's channel, Noah stated that he and Fuslie had met several years ago before he divorced his wife Martina, and after talking about the breakup Fuslie had just gone through, Noah and Fuslie realized they had feelings for each other. Noah claimed that the marriage he was in at the time with Martina was an unhappy one, as he and Martina were incompatible. Noah remarked that he was not sharing his experience so that people would forgive him but rather to clear the air on the entire situation. Noah closed on the subject stating that the only thing he can do as a human is keep moving forward from the mistakes that he made. In the video's description, Noah wrote that he had in private made his apologies to the person who he hurt the most when it happened. The video was meant to rather be an apology to his online community.^[18]

Trivia

• Fuslie has two cats, a male named Sock and a female named Mushroom.^[19]
• She is 5'7" tall.^[20]
• She was a nominee for Content Creator of the Year for 2021^[21], and has received award nominations in QTCinderella's 2022 and 2023 Streamer Awards.^[22]
• She has been featured on Ludwig's game show Mogul Money^[23], as well as Austin's game show Name Your Price.^[24][25][26]
• She has been to Coachella and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concert.^[27][28][29]

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