The popular streamer, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, known for Fortnite, has announced to the flamers in Valorant that he is so rich that he can easily silence them. He will just buy the bank that owns their house and put them on the street. He seems to be annoyed that he is being teased about Fortnite and Mixer.
This was the situation: The Mixer streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins was playing with the friendly Twitch streamers Timthetatman and DrLupo in the beta of Valorant. They were discussing trolls who were bothering them in the games when Ninja suddenly erupted into a complaint that quickly took a strange turn.
Ninja apparently feels that when he plays with Twitch streamers, they make fun of him and attack him. Because Ninja has not streamed on Twitch since August 2019, but on Mixer, where he has significantly fewer viewers than before but presumably earns more money.
Ninja says he receives two insults in the first two rounds of each game:
- once something about Mixer and him
- and then something about Fortnite and that he is “trash”
- after the first two things, it continues for the whole match with “shittalk” about Fortnite.
- additionally, people would try to promote their own Twitch stream to him
— Zim (@Zimmy_US) April 17, 2020
I can buy the bank that owns your house
Ninja says about that:
“Buddy, I can literally buy the bank that owns your house and holds the mortgage, and I can throw you out of the house. Then you are homeless and can no longer talk crap because you have no internet anymore.”
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins
Here are the reactions: Timthetatman is laughing his head off during Ninja’s remarks. He has a grin on his face while Ninja is speaking, and it just keeps getting wider.
DrLupo arrives a bit late to the party and asks what he has missed.
The tweet spreads on Twitter. It is said that Ninja has reached a new dimension of trash talk. With his reaction, he has silenced flamers.
On the other hand, it is also a bit strange, as Ninja still wants donations from people who watch him. In the streaming community, it is generally not well regarded when someone boasts about their wealth.
On reddit , a user believes: The streamers on Mixer reacted sensitively to such attacks because they hate being “trapped” there themselves.
Exchanged financial security for relevance and viewers
This is what it’s about: Ninja is in a strange situation. By switching from Twitch to Mixer, he has traded gaming relevance, pop cultural significance and viewers for financial security, sheer wealth and more pleasant working conditions:
- Rumor has it that he earns about $10 million per year on Mixer.
- however, his audience has also dropped from 77,000 viewers (2018 Twitch) to about 4,100 (last 7 days Mixer)
The Twitch streamers who make fun of him for playing on a supposedly irrelevant platform will surely earn only a fraction of what Ninja ultimately gets from his Mixer deal. This is what Ninja wants to convey with these remarks.
Even if he surely meant it humorously, there is a grain of truth in it.
Finally, an expert who has also been in Ninja’s situation said that one feels “like in prison” on such a platform and has to watch everyone else have fun from the outside. Especially now that Twitch is booming due to Valorant, this must be particularly painful.
Nevertheless, the decision of Ninja to switch to Mixer was right; he makes “money that will last for generations.” Whether it is really enough for Ninja to simply buy a bank, however, can be doubted.
