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I Tried Selling My Diamond Play Button **they really offered this**

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FaZe Rug puts his own YouTube trophy on the chopping block, just to see what it’s actually worth.

Brian Awadis has 10 million subscribers and a Diamond Creator Award sitting somewhere in his house to prove it. In his July 2019 video “I Tried Selling My Diamond Play Button **they really offered this**,” the FaZe Rug star drives that exact plaque around to pawn shops and jewelry appraisers, not because he actually wants to get rid of it, but because he wants an honest number: what is YouTube’s biggest trophy worth to someone who has no idea what YouTube is?

• Awadis takes his official 10-million-subscriber Diamond Creator Award to local pawn shops and jewelry appraisers to get real cash offers on it.
• Appraisers physically test the plaque’s centerpiece to determine whether it’s genuine diamond, ultimately confirming it’s crystal/glass set in silver-plated metal, not a precious gemstone.
• Pawn shop employees evaluate the award strictly on material and resale value, with zero regard for its status as a YouTube milestone.

The Setup

YouTube’s Diamond Play Button — officially the Diamond Creator Award — is the platform’s top physical honor, reserved for channels that cross 10 million subscribers. FaZe Rug earned his the hard way, building his channel from vlogs and prank videos into one of the biggest personalities under the FaZe Clan banner. The plaque itself is a large silver disc with a diamond-shaped centerpiece, and it’s the kind of object that looks expensive purely by design.

That design is the whole joke of the video. Awadis walks into shop after shop treating the award like any other piece of jewelry someone might hawk for quick cash, and lets the professionals do what they do for a living: appraise metal and stones, not internet fame.

Appraiser Findings Reveal Key Details

Every appraiser who inspects the plaque runs the same basic tests jewelers use to separate real diamonds from imitations — checking clarity, weight, and how the stone reacts under close inspection. The verdict is consistent across shops: the centerpiece isn’t diamond at all. It’s crystal or glass, set into silver-plated metal, meaning the “Diamond” in Diamond Play Button is branding, not a materials description.

It’s not diamond, it’s not real silver, it’s basically a nice-looking piece of costume jewelry — and that’s exactly how the pawn shops price it.

That distinction matters because it strips away any illusion that YouTube is handing creators a small fortune in raw materials. The 10-million-subscriber milestone behind the award is real and hard-earned. The trophy commemorating it, materially speaking, is not much different from a decorative award you’d find at a trophy shop.

The Pawn Shop Reactions

What makes the video work is the disconnect between what the plaque means to Awadis and what it means to the guy behind the counter. To FaZe Rug, it represents 10 million people choosing to subscribe to his channel. To a pawn shop employee, it’s a slab of plated metal with a piece of cut glass in the middle, and the offers reflect that gap — appraisers price it as costume jewelry, not as a cultural artifact.

The employees aren’t dismissive so much as indifferent; they’re doing their job, and their job doesn’t include knowing what a subscriber count is. That flat, transactional response is the punchline the whole video is built around, and it’s a similar formula to other stunt-driven experiments creators run, like the cash-conversion premise behind Turning $0.01 Into a House in 1 Week, where the appeal is watching a real-world dollar figure attached to something absurd.

Reasons For Retaining Ownership Assets

Awadis never intends to walk out of any of these shops without his plaque. The entire video is framed as a test, not a transaction — he wants viewers to see the real cash value of the object stripped of its YouTube context, then keep the trophy anyway because its actual worth to him has nothing to do with resale price. That’s consistent with the kind of high-concept money stunts that do well on his channel and others in the space, in the same spirit as videos like Made $1 Million in 7 Hours, Ruined a Whole City in One, where the number itself becomes the hook.

The lesson lands more as comedy than commentary: a YouTube milestone that took years of uploads, collaborations, and subscriber growth to earn gets reduced, in a five-minute pawn shop conversation, to the price of the metal and glass it’s made from. Awadis leaves with the plaque, no cash, and the punchline he came for.