The Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins was in 2018 the biggest content creator of the hit game Fortnite, which broke all records at that time. Now he says: In a single month he earned 5 million US dollars just with the creator code for Fortnite.
This is what Ninja says: The statement comes almost casually while he plays Fortnite:
I believe the most I have made in a month with the creator code was 5 million.
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins
After his conversation partner is taken aback by the 5 million US dollars, Ninja adds: “I’m not joking.” The other streamer says that is more than his entire family and lineage have ever earned.
Ninja then explains: Recently, he told a guy who flamed him in LoL that if he wanted, he could buy his entire family tree. This reminds him of his legendary line to a Fortnite flamer: If he wanted, he could buy the homeless.
Hearts made streamers rich back then
Is the information new? Yes, this was previously unknown.
- Ninja once revealed that in 2018 he earned “around 10 million US dollars” with YouTube and Fortnite.
- It was also known that he reached an incredible number of Twitch subscribers due to the “Amazon deal” of Fortnite in one month, which brought him good money. He held the record for the most Twitch subs for 3 years, until Ludwig broke the record in 2021.
- But the direct income from the “creator code” was not known. Ninja had mentioned that Epic tightly bound the streamers to Fortnite with 3 promotional actions. One of them came in February 2019: The creator code gave players a free “hearts skin” when they used the creator code. This apparently made the revenue flow.
- Ninja had also often complained that he “received his own skin in Fortnite too late.” If the “Ninja skin” had come during Fortnite’s peak, he and Epic could have made much more money, Ninja repeatedly hinted.
This is the Fortnite creator code: Fortnite generates revenue through the cash shop. When a player spends money there, they can enter a “creator code”, and then the streamer to whom the code belongs receives 5% of the revenue. The code was introduced in October 2018.
The streamers and YouTubers have been trying for years to promote their code to the public.
Fortnite was especially incredibly successful in 2018 and 2019, generating billions in the cash shop. Ninja was by far the biggest streamer for the game at that time and constantly promoted the code. Now you can see how much that paid off.
“Life isn’t fair”
This is the reaction: Everyone actually knew that Ninja made a lot of money at that time. But the exact sum is still shocking people now.
- The streamer whom Ninja tells this looks completely shaken by the number. He is speechless.
- Jake Lucky, who runs an e-sports channel on YouTube, says: “Mother of Lord almighty”
- Some people also think: It just shows that life isn’t fair.
An expression says: The devil shits on the biggest pile. In streaming it applies: Whoever is big has opportunities to get even bigger. Ninja had another really big payday after his wedding with Fortnite:
While Ninja and Shroud are cashing in, small mixer streamers are completely done
