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Ninja
Current team
TeamLuminosity Gaming
Role
  • Streamer
  • Professional gamer
  • YouTuber
GamesFortnite Battle Royale, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, H1Z1, Halo
LeagueUSA
Personal information
NameTyler Blevins
Born (1991-06-05) June 5, 1991 (age 33)
NationalityAmerican

Tyler Blevins (born June 5, 1991), more commonly known by his online alias Ninja, is an American Twitch streamer and Internet personality. As of May 2018, he is the most popular streamer on Twitch with over eight million followers and an average of over 90,000 viewers per stream.[1][2]

Career

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Blevins began playing Halo 3 professionally in 2009. He played for various teams including Cloud9, Renegades, Team Liquid,[3] and is currently with Luminosity Gaming.[4]

Tyler became a streamer in 2011 first with Justin.tv, then moved to Twitch.tv. Blevins began playing H1Z1 at the start of its early access program with Steam, then moving to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds when it also entered Steam's Early Access program. He joined Luminosity Gaming in 2017 first as a Halo player, then to H1Z1, later moving to PUBG, where he won the PUBG Gamescom Invitational in the 3rd Person Squads classification. He began streaming Fortnite regularly and his viewership began to grow, which coincided with the game's growth in popularity.[3] In September 2017, he had 500,000 followers, and after six months, that number grew by 250 percent.[5] In March 2018, Blevins set the Twitch.tv record for a single individual stream while playing Fortnite after he hosted a game with Drake, Travis Scott, and Juju Smith-Schuster.[6] Then in April 2018, he broke his own viewing record during his event Ninja Vegas 2018 where he accumulated an audience of 667,000 live viewers.[7]

Tyler has over 12 million subscribers on YouTube as of June 2018. He earns over $500,000 per month from streaming Fortnite and credited the game's free-to-play business model as a growth factor.[8]

Personal life

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In a fundraising charity stream held in February 2018, Blevins raised over $110,000 to be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.[9] Then during the first Fortnite Battle Royale Esports event in April of 2018, Blevins gave away near $50,000 in prize money, with $2,500 of that going to the Alzheimer's Association.[10] Later in April, Ninja participated in the #Clips4Kids event with other fellow streamers Dr.Lupo and Timthetatman, and in total, he helped raise over $340,000.[11]

His family was featured in several episodes of the television game show Family Feud in 2015.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "The Most Popular Twitch Streamers, March 2018". twitchmetrics.net. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  2. ^ "Top 10 Twitch Streamers". socialblade.com. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Leslie, Callum (March 16, 2018). "How much money does Ninja make?". Dot Esports. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  4. ^ "Ninja Pulls Off Insane Save After Accidentally Impulse Grenading Himself". Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  5. ^ Meade, Dylan B. (February 27, 2018). "What the Hell Happened: Ninja's Twitch Takeover". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  6. ^ Patrick Gill, Christopher Grant, Ross Miller, and Julia Alexander (March 15, 2018). "Drake sets records with his Fortnite: Battle Royale Twitch debut". Polygon. Retrieved March 19, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Ninja's Vegas Fortnite event breaks Twitch viewing record - VG247". VG247. April 23, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  8. ^ Kim, Tae (March 19, 2018). "Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins explains how he makes more than $500,000 a month playing video game 'Fortnite'". CNBC. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  9. ^ Becht, Beth Heyn and Eli (February 20, 2018). "Tyler Blevins 'Ninja': Everything You Need to Know". Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  10. ^ "Who Won Ninja Vegas '18? Full Roundup Including Highlights and Results". Twin Galaxies. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  11. ^ {{cite web|url=https://www.dexerto.com/news/incredible-generosity-gaming-community-raises-huge-amount-money-charity-ninja-dr-lupo/49289
  12. ^ Pantzlaff, Andrew (February 12, 2015). "Survey Says: Brillion natives win big on Family Feud". The Brillion News. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
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