The biggest streamer on Twitch is Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. Since his rise through Fortnite, he has sworn off his former foul-mouthed self. But during the World Cup qualifications for Fortnite, the “Old Ninja” made a comeback.
This is how Ninja cursed: The streaming star was recently on a European trip, visiting Paris, Salzburg, and Warsaw. In Paris, he probably ate one baguette too many.
In his latest stream, he advised an opponent he had just defeated to eat a “baguette,” the biggest one he could find. He should stuff the whole thing in.
However, Ninja didn’t actually say baguette.
This was the situation: Ninja (in the Mercy tribute skin) felt that another player (in the notorious Soccer Skin) had been stalking him for 6 minutes. Ninja thought the other player was a stream sniper deliberately hunting him down to eliminate him.
Stream snipers annoy Ninja anyway, they already drove him to madness before.
In this case, it was particularly delicate because the 6-minute chase on Ninja took place during the “World Cup Qualifier for Fortnite.” These games are important for the pros, as it is about qualifying for the World Cup, where 30 million US dollars are at stake.
Streamers like Ninja have the problem that they want to stream their games live to interact with their chat. However, this also makes them susceptible to stream snipers, who can see them, know where Ninja is, and deliberately hunt him down.
That’s why cursing is so unusual: Ninja was considered an aggressive player during the days of Halo and H1Z1, often flipping out and insulting people while streaming.
However, he swore off this “Old Ninja” with increasing popularity through Fortnite. He wanted to be a role model for the youth.
Some older fans criticized this: Ninja would be pretending and is a “sellout,” having sold out for success and not being the Ninja of old.
Therefore, the glimpse of “Old Ninja” is now a reason for joy for some veteran fans, while perhaps some younger fans have shown irritation.
In Ninja’s chat during the moment, most fans were amused, with many “Lols,” “Yes,” and “hahahahs.” On reddit, the clip also receives rather positive feedback: One would act the same way if being stalked like that.
Generally, Ninja’s haters should also eat a baguette, it is said there.
The clip has already received 190,000 views in a short time.
