Ninja (streamer)

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Ninja
Richard Tyler Blevins (2019)
Richard Tyler Blevins (2019)
YouTube channel ( gaming )
language English
founding November 10, 2011
channels Ninja
Subscribers over 24 million
Calls over 2.2 billion
Videos over 1100

Richard Tyler Blevins (* 5. June 1991 in Detroit , Michigan ), better known under his online - pseudonym Ninja (formerly Ninja Hyper ), an American Webvideoproduzent , streamers and professional e-sports . In June 2019, he was the world's most followed streamer on Twitch with over 15 million followers (including 50,000 active viewers per week). He has over 24 million subscribers on YouTube (as of August 2020) and over 5.9 million on Twitter (as of June 2020).

Life

Blevins was born to American parents of Welsh descent in the city of Detroit . When he was one year old, he moved to Chicago with his family . He attended Grayslake Central High School and often played soccer and video games with his friends. After finishing school he decided to play professionally video games to e-sports attend tournaments and stream their games live. Before living as a streamer and successful e-athlete, Blevins went to school at Silver Lake College and worked on the side at a fast-casual restaurant belonging to the Noodles & Company chain.

In 2018, he made around $ 10 million by streaming the video game Fortnite on Twitch. Blevins is married to streamer and manager Jessica Blevins.

Career

E-athletes

He started playing Halo 3 professionally in 2009 . He played for various teams such as Cloud 9 , Renegades, Team Liquid and Luminosity Gaming .

Due to his success on Twitch, he organized the first e-sports event with the game Fortnite as a discipline at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2018 on June 12, 2018 . Several celebrities competed against each other for a good cause at the event. (Charity) The winner was Ninja and his teammate, the musician Marshmello , who has already given concerts in Fortnite. At the Fortnite World Cup 2019 , he was eliminated in the qualifiers.

Livestreamer

Due to his gaming and esports experience, Blevins eventually became a streamer in 2011. He started streaming gameplays from the game H1Z1 and then moved to PUBG . He later started streaming Fortnite on a regular basis and his viewership began to grow, which was helped by the game's growing popularity. In September 2017 he had around 500,000 followers, in the following six months this number grew by a good 250 percent.

On August 1, 2019, Ninja announced that it would switch from Amazon's Twitch to the comparatively less popular live stream platform Mixer from Microsoft and stream exclusively there. At weddings, he had around 250,000 paying subscribers on Twitch. After just one week, he reached over a million subscribers on the platform, four times the number on Twitch. However, a free trial month is also possible, which means that only a few subscribers have paid.

Due to his successful Fortnite livestreams, he received his own skin with 4 variations in the game in January 2020 .

author

At the end of July 2019, he also announced that he would publish three books.

With the book Ninja: Get Good he wants to give players tips for streaming, the right equipment, building a clan and e-sports. The book Ninja: The Most Dangerous Game , on the other hand, is a graphic novel that tells how Ninja himself ends up in a battle royale game. The last book is a mixture of a notebook and an artbook .

Advertising character

Electronic Arts paid him up to $ 1 million per Apex Legends live stream for advertising purposes . The energy drink Red Bull also advertises ninja on the cans. He entered into another advertising deal with Adidas , who released a sneaker dedicated to him .

The Masked Singer

In September 2019, Ninja took part in the second season of the US version of The Masked Singer as Ice Cream and was the second of the 16 participants in the first episode.

Controversy

In October 2018, Blevins reported a player in Fortnite because they had a higher ping than they did. This triggered a shit storm on the Internet a little later .

In November 2018, Blevins reported a player for stream sniping . This also later triggered a shit storm in the network.

Blevins testified in 2018 that he did not want to play with women in order to protect his marriage from possible rumors arising. Some people criticized that his exclusion of women was sexist.

reception

The sports magazine ESPN called him the Biggest Gamer in the World on the cover page. He was also the first e-athlete to be mentioned in the sports magazine. He also made Time magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2019 .

Awards and nominations

year price category result receipt
2018 8th Streamy Award Creator of the Year Won
Esports Awards Esports Personality of the Year Won
The Game Awards 2018 Content Creator of the Year Won
2019 11th Shorty Awards Twitch Streamer of the Year Won

Fundraisers

The prize money at the e-sports tournament at E3 2018, which he won together with Marshmello for donations, was one million US dollars. Previously, he donated $ 110,000 to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention through his streams, $ 2,500 to the Alzheimer's Association (out of a total of $ 50,000 in donation), and organized $ 340,000 through the # Clips4Kids campaign.

literature

  • Ninja: Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming, Clarkson Potter, 2019, ISBN 978-1-984826-75-6
  • Ninja: The Most Dangerous Game

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ninja on Twitter. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ How Fortnite star Ninja became a rabid Detroit Lions fan. September 25, 2018, accessed May 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ Ninja - Twitch. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ninja. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ninja (@Ninja) | Twitter. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ H3 Podcast # 63 - Ninja. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  7. ^ ESPN - Living the Stream. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b How this 26-year-old went from working at a fast food joint to making $ 500,000 a month playing video games. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Fortnite - Twitch star Ninja reveals his income for 2018 - GameStar. January 2, 2019, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Dave Smith: Meet Jessica Blevins, the 26-year-old wife and manager of the most popular video-game player in the world right now. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  11. ↑ How much money does Ninja make? Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Fortnite Party Royale - 50 celebrities and 50 esports professionals at E3. March 17, 2018, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  13. ↑ a b Austen Goslin: Ninja and Marshmello win Epic's E3 2018 Fortnite Pro Am. June 12, 2018, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Fortnite World Cup 2019: 16-year-old American wins three million US dollars - Golem.de. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 (German).
  15. ^ Living The Stream. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  16. ↑ How much money does Ninja make? Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Ninja Pulls Off Insane Cliffside Build Save After Accidentally Impulse Grenading Himself. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Tyler "Ninja" Blevins: Microsoft grabs Amazon's "Fortnite" superstar . In: Spiegel Online . August 2, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 2, 2019]).
  19. ↑ a b heise online: Streaming star Ninja switches from Twitch to Microsoft Mixer. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Ninja beats his Twitch subscription record four times in one week on Mixer. August 7, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Fortnite: Streamer Ninja gets its own skin - activation & first information. January 16, 2020, accessed January 17, 2020 .
  22. ↑ "Ninja" is writing a book on how to become an "unstoppable gaming machine" - derStandard.de. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 (Austrian German).
  23. ↑ heise online: Apex Legends: EA is said to have paid Twitch star a million dollars for stream. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Sport1.de: Ninja and Red Bull: Energy drink with the Fortnite star. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Michael Rubach: Streaming superstar Ninja & Adidas present sneakers together. December 19, 2019, accessed January 17, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Lynette Rice: The Ice Cream speaks! Here's how The Masked Singer recruited the mysterious celebrity. In: Entertainment Weekly . September 26, 2019, accessed on July 14, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Ninja reported a player for high ping and was later accused of getting someone falsely banned. In: Dot Esports. November 17, 2018, Retrieved May 15, 2019 (American English).
  28. ↑ Here's why Ninja is receiving hate for falsely accusing someone of stream sniping. In: Dot Esports. November 12, 2018. Retrieved May 15, 2019 (American English).
  29. ↑ Steven Asarch On 11/11/18 at 7:56 PM EST: Streamer Ninja is in hot water for calling player IcyFive a stream sniper. November 11, 2018. Retrieved May 15, 2019 (American English).
  30. ↑ a b Michael Miskulin: Fortnite streamer Ninja explains why he doesn't play with female gamers. In: PC Games Hardware . August 15, 2018, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  31. ↑ The 100 Most Influential People of 2019. Retrieved August 2, 2019 (American English).
  32. ↑ 8th Annual Nominees. In: The Streamy Awards. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 .
  33. ↑ 2018 Hall of Fame | Esports Awards 2019 | Recognizing excellence in global esports. Retrieved August 2, 2019 (UK English).
  34. ↑ The Game Awards 2018 Watch Times, Schedule, and Nominees List - IGN. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 .
  35. ↑ 11th Annual Shorty Awards Nominees - The Shorty Awards. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  36. ↑ Beth Heyn and Eli Becht: Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins: Everything You Need to Know. In: Heavy.com. February 20, 2018, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  37. ↑ Who Won Ninja Vegas '18? Full Roundup Including Highlights and Results. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 .
  38. ^ Incredible Generosity of the Gaming Community Raises Huge Amount of Money For Charity - Ninja, Dr Lupo and More. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ninja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blevins, Richard Tyler (real name); NinjasHyper (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American web video producer, streamer, and professional esportsman
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan , United States