Tyler “Ninja” Blevins was a huge name on Twitch in 2017 and 2018 thanks to the shooter Fortnite , and the 32-year-old still has the channel with the most followers today. But the peak of his success was 5 years ago. Now he’s making headlines for drunkenly dissing colleagues during a YouTube stream.
Who is Ninja?
- Ninja had his wedding in 2017 and 2018 on Twitch when he became a star with the shooter “Fortnite”, even making it into the mainstream: Back then, he constantly broke records, became a multimillionaire in just a few months, wanted to be “the David Beckham” of gaming.
- After a lucrative deal with Mixer , he left Twitch for a while but has never become as relevant again after his return as he was during his peak. He has lost about 88% of his viewers.
- Nevertheless, he still has the channel with the most followers on Twitch from the Fortnite era. The second-placed, auronplay, is still 3 million followers behind.
On a fateful night during the stream, Ninja drunkenly dissed colleagues.
Ninja disses Twitch streamer: “Completely irrelevant”
What did he say? Ninja was apparently quite drunk but was seen in a three-and-a-half-hour stream by his friend, TimTheTatman (via youtube). His former colleague from Fortnite days, Cloakzy, was also there.
Ninja spoke about stableronald. He has 2.6 million followers and around 2,000 average viewers on Twitch. stableronaldo is a 20-year-old Twitch streamer who excels in Fortnite and is closely friends with current Fortnite star Clix.
Stableronaldo had the audacity to come into the stream and criticize the 3 elders sitting there opening $10,000 crates in CS:GO: For that, he received the receipt from Ninja.
Ronaldo has only a twentieth of our followers and is completely irrelevant. So we should keep opening boxes. He wanted to become an IRL streamer and has miserably failed.
Ninja slurs noticeably while drunk and continues to diss Ronaldo in the stream. He says:
- Ronaldo is clearly washed up
- He needs to get back to e-sports instead of focusing on drama
- He peaked during the Fortnite era
TimTheTatman finds this too much. He tries to hold Ninja back, who is digging his own grave, but he cannot be stopped. He is now obsessed with telling “the truth”:
I stand by what I say: I think Ronaldo, you are like a combination of crap Clix: “Oh God, I might be good at the game” and Myth: “You go to YouTube – and what happens then?
The sentence about Myth was understood to mean that he switched and since he left Twitch, plays no role anymore.
Ronaldo screams: “You sold out”
What are the reactions? His former colleague Myth, who really switched to YouTube, reacts miffed and criticizes: It is crazy for someone like Ninja, who himself had so many ups and downs and knows how much that impacts mental health, to attack a smaller streamer for not being so successful anymore. Being drunk is no excuse for that.
Stable Ronaldo had a screaming fit. That is not okay, he sees Ninja in his viewer list.
Ninja would “go after everything he worked for.”
Ronaldo also explains that he stayed on Twitch, although he had a good offer from Facebook for $18,000 a month to switch when he was 15/16 years old.
I decided to stay on Twitch because I believed in myself. You sold out, said “Screw all my viewers, screw the community” and sold yourself to a dead platform for $50 million just because you were only interested in money. That’s why you’re projecting your stuff onto me because you are a little bitch.
Ninja is also criticized online for his behavior. One person shares the clip and says: I used to look up to Ninja, but now he just boasts about money and mocks people who want to be successful. It’s sad to see.
How does Ninja himself react? He says he would have apologized to stableronaldo afterwards. He thinks highly of him, and it was all not meant that way. It was just playful teasing that got out of hand.
He also admits: TimTheTatman uninvited him from the planned dinner together. He was simply at the end of his rope.
What’s behind it: What’s really strange about this case is that Ninja apparently doesn’t realize that everything he criticizes in others can also be thrown at him:
- He is no longer as relevant as he once was
- He sold himself to another platform and thus lost a large part of his viewers
- He peaked during Fortnite
That he criticizes these 3 things and doesn’t realize that he is sitting in a glass house seems odd. He can be glad that TimTheTatman is such a nice guy that he doesn’t throw it in his face on camera. But when stableronaldo says he projects his own problems onto him, there seems to be some truth to that.
Even though Ninja has always paid attention to his image, he has always had these strange outbursts: For example, when he explained to professional kickers in the NFL that their job is really very easy. He cannot understand how a professional could ever miss such a kick.
Well, alcohol and live streaming just don’t seem to mix:
