Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has become the world’s most popular streamer with Fortnite . He was streaming on Twitch at that time. However, in the summer of 2019, he switched to Mixer and lost a large portion of his viewers. He often claimed it didn’t bother him. He was doing great. Now he explains how it really was.
This was the situation:
- The former Halo professional Tyler “Ninja” Blevins rode the Fortnite hype in 2018 like no other and built a huge Twitch channel. He had 14 million followers there.
- In retrospect, Ninja said he wasn’t living in 2018, but was just a “slave” to the stream. He was on air as much as he could and earned a lot of money in 2018.
- In the summer of 2019, Ninja switched to the streaming service Mixer, where significantly fewer people watched him. Instead of an average 77,719 as in 2018 on Twitch, he had about 9,400 viewers on Mixer in November 2019, later the numbers dropped further to 7,700.
How did Ninja cope with having so many fewer viewers on Mixer in 2020 compared to Twitch?