The mixer streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is getting his own skin in Fortnite. He had requested it months ago and seemed slightly offended that he had to wait so long. But now the time has come and Ninja is putting on a good face for the bad game.
What kind of skin is this? Epic is finally ready and announced the “Icon Series” on January 15, 2020. These are skins of the “Top Creators” of Fortnite.
The first streamer to receive a skin will be Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the most famous Fortnite streamer. It is a four-part set:
- The Outfit Ninja
- The Back Bling “Ninja Blades”
- The Emote “Ninja Style”
- And the Pickaxe “Twin Katanas”
The items are set to hit the Fortnite shop starting January 17 at 1:00 AM German time.
Epic has already announced that it will continue afterward. The next skins will go to Australian Twitch streamer Loserfruit and Spanish YouTuber “TheGrefg”.
This is Ninja’s reaction: He stated, “I am finally getting a skin” for the personal event. Ninja pointed this out a day before and presented it as a big surprise.
People should, when buying the skin, please use his content creator code. Ninja gets money from Epic for every purchase made with his creator code.
This is the reaction of other streamers: In the time following the announcement, some streamer colleagues chose public channels to congratulate Ninja. A few disses are also included.
Ninja had already requested a skin for himself in 2018
What is behind this? Ninja has been asking for more than a year for Epic to finally give him a skin:
- Months ago, in October 2018, it still seemed a bit bratty, as if Ninja wished for more love from Epic and preferential treatment
- In recent weeks, however, a businessman side of Ninja was evident, stating that Epic missed a great opportunity to make money: The skin should have come back in 2018 when Ninja and Fortnite were at their peak of popularity
Have there been such skins before? With the skins, Epic follows the model of “PUBG” which also created skins in cooperation with their biggest streamers.
So far, there have not been such skins officially in Fortnite, but some skins have been “claimed” or attributed to streamers.
In April 2019, the Twitch streamer DrDisrespect declared a skin in Fortnite that looked like him as “his” skin. He announced that he might sue Epic Games – for a lot of money.
In December 2018, the controversial YouTuber Daniel M. “Keemstar” Keem believed Epic wanted to mock him with a garden gnome skin. He was anyway not pleased with Epic Games.
In November 2018, there was a skin in the game that looked like it was made for Twitch streamer “Summit1g“. At that time, Ninja did not find it funny at all that a competitor was to receive a skin before him.
Now Ninja is the first with an official skin in Fortnite, which should reconcile him.
