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A small label reached out. Leo declined. Instead, he made one more song: No gaming clips this time. Just him, sitting on his childhood bedroom floor, guitar in hand, singing:
That video hit 2 million views.
It began as a joke. He’d taken a clip of himself rage-quitting a match—screaming "N00bs! All of you!"—and auto-tuned it into a 15-second loop. He uploaded it to YouTube as
The comments exploded. “This slaps unironically.” “Why am I crying over a n00b slayer ballad?” “Bro turned his gamer rage into a genre.”
To his shock, it got 47 views. Then 400. Then 12,000.
Leo, known online as , wasn't a gamer anymore. Not really. Three years ago, he’d ruled the leaderboards in Tactical Siege Ops , his sniper tag infamous. But now, at 22, his wrists ached, and his kill-death ratio had flatlined.
So he did something unexpected: he started making .
“He wasn’t a n00b slayer. He was a poet.”