Streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has become a star with Fortnite . However, since his switch from Twitch to Mixer, he has had significantly fewer viewers. But that is misleading, as he claims. Things are still going great for him.
This is often teased about Ninja: Streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins was the standout personality on Twitch in 2018. He became a gaming star who was invited to talk shows and even appeared on the cover of sports magazines during the hype surrounding Fortnite. No gamer had achieved that before him.
Since his switch in August 2019 from Twitch to competitor Mixer, Ninja’s viewer numbers during live streams have significantly decreased:
- In 2018, Ninja had an average of 77,719 viewers on Twitch, with an incredible 617,767 at peak during the stream with musician and pop culture icon Drake.
- On Mixer, Ninja currently has an average of 5,290 viewers – this is the number from the last 30 days via mixerstats.)
Ninja is often teased about this enormous loss of viewers when live streaming.
Twitch Streamers and observers make fun of how few viewers Mixer actually has, and Ninja is often the target of such jokes. For understandable reasons, Ninja does not find this funny at all. To one who insulted him, he threatened to buy him homeless. Because Ninja has so much money that he could easily grab a bank.
“I’m still getting millions of views, dude”
This is what Ninja says now: In a series of statements during his Fortnite streams, Ninja explains that he is still doing incredibly well and reaching “millions of viewers”, just not on Mixer:
I don’t care. So many people come and take that as the first flame against me. The two times Tfue attacked me, he talked about how I need fame because my viewer numbers are going down. He takes pictures of my lowest viewer numbers every day.
Dude, I’m still getting millions of views on Twitter, Instagram, and Tik Tok. When I upload a Fortnite video to YouTube, it gets millions of views.
Ninja
The fact that he is being attacked by his rival Tfue, number 1 on Twitch, is something Ninja cannot stand. After all, he sees himself as someone who has done so much for streamers.
Because he also switched for everyone else on Mixer:
The switch from Mixer was massive, not just for me. I didn’t do it just for myself. One of the reasons we did this was to set a precedent. So that platforms have to start paying streamers to stay and paying them to switch.
Ninja
This is what Ninja says about Mixer: Ninja is proud of his numbers on Mixer. Even though the platform accounts for less than 5% of all streaming hours worldwide, he and colleague shroud could pull up to 10,000 viewers when playing a tournament.
When he’s participating in “Warzone Wednesday”, the CoD tournament by Keemstar, he reaches up to 14,000 live viewers. That’s equivalent to about 80,000 or 90,000 viewers on Twitch.
According to Ninja, this is an “incredible success.”
This is the situation with streaming services: Mixer has acquired two mega-stars from Twitch, shroud and Ninja; however, they have barely been able to grow their own streaming platform. While Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook are growing in live streaming, Mixer is stagnating at a low level.
The role of Ninja and shroud seems to be more like “brand ambassadors” for Microsoft. It is believed that Ninja, as a former Halo pro, will be central in promoting Halo Infinite for Xbox Series X.
The video shows Ninja’s statements starting at 0:31:
Constant teasing visibly annoys Ninja
This is what it’s all about: Ninja is right in many ways. The switch from Twitch to Mixer has brought him many positive things:
- he still reaches many people on other platforms like YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok
- he has initiated a new era for streamers with his switch
- he is in an outstanding financial position
- he has a more self-determined and freer life than before.
All of this is undisputed.
As a gamer, it must surely annoy him that he no longer plays a role in the “high score” race for the highest viewer numbers. “Who has the most live viewers?” is ultimately the high score against which streamers measure each other.
Even though Ninja is right in everything he says, the constant teasing that he is “playing on a platform without viewers” visibly annoys him. And those who tease him about it will not care about the good arguments he has.
They simply enjoy tormenting him too much.
Even though Ninja believes he has done so much for other streamers, he often finds himself in conflicts with them. Because he constantly reprimands others for what he sees as improper behavior.
Other streamers do not appreciate being lectured and criticized by Ninja. Two of the biggest Fortnite streamers attacked Ninja on Christmas.
