Luna ( AustinFFA) Biography

Austin Jacob Heikes, better known online as Luna, formerly AustinFFA, is an American YouTuber and video game commentator who uploads gaming videos and occasionally vlogs and stories.

His gaming videos mostly consist of video games such as the Call of Duty games and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but his comments during his videos are unrelated to the game.

Instead, he shares bizarre stories about things that have happened to him or to people he knows, such as his family and friends, which is what his channel is known for. As of July 2018, his channel has over 2 million subscribers and 500 million video views.

Austin began his journey to social media stardom in the early 2010s. His previous YouTube accounts covered gaming as well. On April 27, 2014, he set up his current channel, naming it AustinFFA. The first video was uploaded on 4 May.

Titled ‘Almost Burned My House Down (Life Story)’, the video contains ‘Titanfall’ (2014) gameplay and features Luna narrating a story that had happened to him earlier.

He primarily focused on ‘Call of Duty’ video game content and soon his channel gained traction with each of his videos garnering hundreds of thousands of views.

He later rebranded his channel as Luna and switched to mainly uploading videos related to ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’ multiplayer first-shooter PC game. While there are thousands of gaming channels on YouTube, what sets Luna apart from the rest is the commentary he provides.

While playing videos games, he tells a story from his life. No one knows whether his stories are true or not, though each one of his stories is extremely interesting. The fact that he is an engaging storyteller who can keep his audience engrossed for at least 15 to 20 minutes has made him successful.

Luna ( AustinFFA) Age

Austin Jacob Heikes is an American YouTube star and social media influencer. He is more popular on social media by his usernames Luna and AustinFFA. A native of New York, Austin was raised alongside his brothers. He dropped out of high school due to anxiety. He was born on October 26, 1998 age 20 years old as of 2018.

In the early 2010s, he began to experiment with social media. He set up many channels on YouTube before creating the present one in April 2014. Since the beginning, he has been posting gaming videos, life stories, and questionnaires. In time, his channel grew exponentially. Read also about Jack Tenney (YouTuber)

He currently has about 1.7 million subscribers and more than 400 million views. He set up a second channel, Luna Vlogs, in May 2015 but it hardly sees any activity. Besides these, he has an active Twitter account with over 500 thousand followers.

Luna ( AustinFFA) Net Worth

Austin is the guy who runs the YouTube channel called Luna or formerly AustinFFA. He has an estimated net worth of $1.4 million. He gaming commentaries (Mostly Call Of Duty and Counter-Strike Global Offensive) or life stories over the gameplay videos. He uploads at least one video every day.

HOW MUCH MONEY does LUNA earn FROM YOUTUBE?

Luna has over 2.5 million subscribers on the channel and has accumulated over 700 million views since starting out. In a day the channel gets an average of 500,000 views per day and this should, in turn, generate an estimated revenue of around $2,000 per day ($730,000 a year) from YouTube ads.

YouTubers get paid between $2 – $7 per 1000 monetized views after YouTube takes its cut. Monetized views range from 40% – 80% of the total views. All these are influenced by several factors like device played on, the location of the viewer, ad inventory, how many ads there are on a video, how many people skip the ads, type of advertisement, ad engagement, type of content, etc.

The cost of an ad view is based on an auction between advertisers based on views. Advertisers have to bid a minimum of $0.01 per view.

There is also a program known as Google Preferred where deep-pocketed companies can target ads on the top 5% most popular content. The ad rates here are higher than normal. Apart from ads, YouTubers also generate extra from YouTube Red viewers who pay a monthly fee to view premium content on YouTube plus watch videos without ads.

Here they get paid based on watch time on their videos. The longer the viewers watch their videos, the more money they earn.

Termination

On October 3, 2018, Luna’s YouTube Channel was terminated ‘due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations’.

2 hours later, Luna made an announcement on Twitter talking about the situation.  Luna also said he can’t access his 2nd channel due to it having the same email as his main Luna’s Terminated Channel

Reinstated
The next day after the sudden channel termination, Luna was successfully able to restore his account. He was able to get help from H3h3productions as well.

Almost Arrested
On October 25, 2018, Luna made A tweet Stating “I just got detained and almost taken to jail because I ate a Twinkie at Walmart. I’m not even kidding. I love my life” And almost No joke! Got arrested For eating.

Personal Life

Luna was born on October 26, 1998, in a small town in the state of New York, USA. He has two brothers named Georgie and Gavin. His mother has appeared on his videos several times and answered questions from his Twitter followers.

He has talked about his father as well and had promised in a video that if that video got 20 thousand likes, his father would make an appearance on his channel.

Despite the video getting over 60 thousand likes, it hasn’t happened yet.
He attended a local school but later dropped out because of anxiety. He also wanted to pursue a career as a professional YouTuber.

Trivia
Luna’s phone number has been leaked several times on the internet.