Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is probably the gaming influencer who has earned the most money in recent years due to the hype surrounding Fortnite : He is a multi-millionaire. In a Twitch stream, the 29-year-old now explains the downsides of having so much money.
Why does Ninja have so much money? We do not know Ninja’s exact fortune, but we are aware of some of his earnings. Additionally, he likes to boast about his wealth. At one point, he threatened a flamer with “buying the bank that owns his house and putting him out on the street”.
- In Fortnite, Ninja once earned 5 million US dollars in one month just from the creator code.
- Through Twitch and YouTube, he earned about 10 million US dollars in 2018, as he mentioned in an interview
- Ninja apparently made a huge chunk of money by switching to the streaming service Mixer: There he reportedly received between 20 and 30 million US dollars for a contract spanning several years. However, since Mixer quickly shut down, he only received the money for a few months while working for Microsoft
From what is known, Ninja likely has a fortune in the double-digit millions.
If you have money, you no longer know who you can really trust
This is what Ninja says about the downsides of money: In a stream, Ninja explains how he perceives having so much money:
“Money can’t buy you happiness. It can buy you things that make you happy. But that is fleeting.”
Ninja
There are also negative aspects of money:
- Those who have money have often sacrificed something for it in 90% of the cases: relationships, family, time, love, or friendships
- Once you have money, you no longer know whom you can trust: Who are your true friends? Who is your true family?
- Moreover, people come out of nowhere and ask you for money all the time. If you don’t give them anything, you will be insulted as a “piece of shit” and they make sure you feel that way
Ninja makes it clear that he doesn’t want to complain here. He is not seeking sympathy; he knows how privileged he is and that he has more than most others. These are just facts that he lists.
The segment in which Ninja talks about what it is like to have so much money starts at 6:40 minutes:
For many young people, it is a dream to become a successful influencer on YouTube or Twitch: playing games, talking about them, and earning money from it. But this dream also has negative sides, as Ninja explains and as the most successful gaming streamer in the world, Valkyrae, also points out:
Streamer talks about the shockingly disgusting sides of being a gaming star
