A popular YouTuber named Vincent Carter, known as FGTeeV Duddy online, has fans worried after he shared a flurry of concerning Instagram videos Oct. 6, paired with an Instagram livstream, in which he ranted about Jesus being resurrected, himself being cloned and not trusting his family anymore.
"I don't trust my family any longer," he said to his over 1 million followers on the app. Vincent is seen driving around in his car during the livestream, wearing a green shirt and a backwards baseball cap. "I don't trust Alexis. I don't trust Mike. I don't trust Chase, Shawn or Samantha."
Alexis, Mike, Chase and Shawn are Carter's children. He also named his wife Samantha. The family runs the FGTeeV YouTube empire, which they started in 2012. They share
family vlogs and play video games together for an audience of over 313 million subscribers across all six of their kid-orientated YouTube channels.
Vincent is the patriarch, and his recent comments have many fans concerned about his mental health after he said that his family isn't his family anymore and that "they're all demons."
"I want to say, without a doubt, that my family, my whole family, everybody in it, they're all the devil. They're all demons," Vincent said in the Oct. 6 livestream.
During a different part, Vincent said, "No, I'm not a clone, guys. This is the real me, and they're going to clone me because Jesus is coming back, I think really soon, guys."
USA TODAY has reached out to the Carter family for comment.
Who is FGTeeV Duddy and the FGTeeV family?
The FGTeeV family began creating YouTube content in November 2012 on their channel TheSkylanderBoy AndGirl. The channel's focus was and is the video game "Skylanders," and it first starred Vincent and Samantha's son, Mike.
In a June 2024 interview with Sweety High, Vincent said that Mike convinced him to start the channel. "I thought it was a cute thing for him," he said. "Never planned on it being anything. So we made one video, put it out and forgot about it, checked back over a month later and saw a ton of views."
The views only increased over the next decade. Their most popular channel, FGTeeV, now boasts over 25.6 million subscribers. The bulk of the content shows the family playing video games like "Roblox" and "Fortnite," among other favorites of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
They seem to cater to younger audiences. In 2023 and 2024, they were nominated at the Kids' Choice Awards for favorite social media family and favorite creator family, respectively. They didn't win either year, though.
The FGTeeV family also created an eponymous New York Times best-selling graphic novel series in 2020, distributed by Harper. It's coupled with an animation series on YouTube called Toons + Tunes. Each family member is a character.
FGTeeV also caters their content to Christians – Vincent seems to be the leading contributor. On his personal YouTube channel, InTeLL R3VIZED, he shares videos about Bible study and his thoughts on Catholicism and sin.
Fans says it's 'disturbing' to see what FGTeeV Duddy is experiencing
Vincent's Oct. 6 Instagram posts have been reshared across the internet. One notable TikTok video, showing clips from the livestream, has reached over 4.3 million views. Another TikTok video, showing the moment Vincent says he doesn't trust anyone in his family, has over 5 million views as of writing.
For fans, it's been especially troubling for those who grew up watching FGTeeV content.
"It's actually kinda disturbing to see someone you used to watch a lot as a kid go through something like this," wrote one X user about the situation.
Its actually kinda disturbing to see someone you used to watch a lot as a kid go through something like this man
— Little_Crater (@Little_Crater) October 7, 2026
Many celebrities and influencers have worried their fans after going live on social media before. In August, longtime blogger and media personality Perez Hilton broadcasted himself on TikTok Live, harming his body in the midst of an apparent mental health crisis.
The images were shocking, as was the fact that the livestream went on for as long as it did. Fingers were pointed at TikTok's moderation system.
A TikTok spokesperson told USA TODAY that the app's system "quickly flagged the livestream and alerted the American content moderation team," but a "'moderator error' caused a delay in taking down the disturbing livestream."
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