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American streamer and YouTuber

Richard Blevins
Ninja2019screenshot.jpg

Blevins in 2019
Born

Richard Tyler Blevins[1]


(1991-06-05) June v, 1991 (historic period 30)

Detroit, Michigan, U.Southward.
Occupation
  • Live streamer
  • YouTuber
Spouse(s)

Jessica Blevins

​

(k. 2017)​
Twitch information
Also known as NinjasHyper
Channel
  • Ninja
Years active 2011–present
Genre Gaming
Games
  • Fortnite
  • League of Legends
  • PlayerUnknown'due south Battlegrounds
  • Z1 Battle Royale
  • Halo
  • Apex Legends
  • Call of Duty: Warzone
  • Valorant
Teams played for
  • Cloud9
  • Renegades
  • Team Liquid
  • Luminosity Gaming
Followers 17.4 million
(Feb 1, 2022)
Total views 565 million
(February 1, 2022)
YouTube data
Channel
  • Ninja
Years active 2011–present
Genre Gaming
Subscribers 23.9 million[2]
(December 21, 2021)
Total views 2.48 billion[2]
(February 1, 2022)
Associated acts
  • MrBeast
  • DrDisRespect
  • Marshmello
  • Dude Perfect
  • TimTheTatman
  • CouRageJD
  • DrLupo
  • Drake
  • Myth
  • Trevor May

Creator Awards

YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg 100,000 subscribers 2017
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg one,000,000 subscribers 2018
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg 10,000,000 subscribers 2018
Website teamninja.com

Richard Tyler Blevins [1] (born June v, 1991), meliorate known by his online alias Ninja, is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber and professional person gamer.

Blevins began streaming through participating in several esports teams in competitive play for Halo iii, and gradually picked upwards fame when he first started playing Fortnite Battle Royale in late 2017. Blevins's rise among mainstream media began in March 2022 when he played Fortnite together with Drake, Travis Scott and JuJu Smith-Schuster on stream, breaking a meridian viewer count record on Twitch. Blevins has over 17 million followers on his Twitch channel, making information technology the nearly-followed Twitch aqueduct every bit of December 2021.[3]

Early life

Richard Tyler Blevins was born on June v, 1991, and is of Welsh descent.[4] Though born in the Detroit expanse, he moved with his family to the Chicago suburbs when he was an infant.[five] He attended Grayslake Primal High School, where he played soccer. Upon graduation, he decided to play video games professionally, entering tournaments, joining professional organizations, and live streaming his games.[6]

Career

Esports and streaming

Blevins began playing Halo iii professionally in 2009.[7] He played for various organizations including Cloud9, Renegades, Team Liquid,[8] and about recently, Luminosity Gaming.[ citation needed ] Blevins became a streamer in 2011.[five] He began playing H1Z1, so moved to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. He joined Luminosity Gaming in 2022 kickoff every bit a Halo player, then to H1Z1, later moving to PUBG, where he won the PUBG Gamescom Invitational Squads classification in August 2017.[9]

Blevins began streaming the newly released Fortnite Battle Royale presently later on the PUBG Gamescom Invitational. His viewership began to abound, which coincided with the game'southward growth in popularity over the late 2017/early 2022 catamenia.[viii] His followers on Twitch had grown from 500,000 in September 2022 to over two million by March 2018.[10]

In March 2018, Blevins became the commencement Twitch streamer to surpass 3 million followers on the platform.[11] Later on that month, he ready the tape for the largest concurrent audition on an private stream (outside of tournament events), 635,000, while playing Fortnite with Drake, Travis Scott, and JuJu Smith-Schuster.[12] This stream inspired Ballsy Games, the developers behind Fortnite, to host a charitable pro-am upshot featuring popular streamers similar Blevins paired with famous celebrities in Fortnite at E3 2022 in June of that year; Blevins paired with electronic musician Marshmello and won the event.[13] [14] In Apr 2018, he broke his own viewing record during his issue Ninja Vegas 2018, where he accumulated an audience of about 667,000 live viewers.[fifteen]

Blevins partnered with Red Bull Esports in June 2018, and held a special Fortnite event, the Red Bull Rise Till Dawn in Chicago on July 21, 2018, where players could challenge him.[sixteen]

Blevins' rise in popularity on Twitch is considered to exist synergistically tied to the success of Fortnite Battle Royale. In December 2018, Blevins estimated he had made close to U.s.$10 million in 2018, while Epic Games reported they had earned over Usa$3 billion in revenue in the year, primarily due to Fortnite.[17] He became the first PC actor to surpass five,000 Fortnite wins that same month.[18] To admit Blevins' importance to Fortnite 's success, Epic added a Ninja-based corrective peel to the game in January 2022 equally the outset office of an "Icon Series" for other real-life personalities associated with Fortnite.[nineteen]

Reuters reported that Blevins had been paid United states$1 million by Electronic Arts to promote Apex Legends, a competing battle royale game to Fortnite, for playing the game on his Twitch stream and promoting the title through social media account during Noon release in February 2019.[20]

On August 1, 2019, Blevins left Twitch to stream exclusively on Microsoft's Mixer platform.[21] [22] His wife and manager Jessica told The Verge that the contract with Twitch had limited the ability for Ninja to grow his brand outside of video gaming, and that because of the state of Twitch'due south community, "it really seemed like he was kind of losing himself and his love for streaming."[23]

In improver to a large number of subscribers on Twitch and Mixer, Blevins has over 24 million subscribers on YouTube as of Apr 2021. At the time, he was earning over $500,000 per month from streaming Fortnite and credits the game's free-to-play business organization model equally a growth cistron.[24]

Due to the shutdown of Mixer in July 2020, Blevins was released from his exclusivity deal, enabling him to stream on other platforms.[25] On September 10, 2020, Blevins revealed that he would return to streaming on Twitch after signing an exclusive multiyear deal and streamed on the platform the aforementioned day.[26]

Other appearances

Blevins and his family unit were featured in several episodes of the telly game show Family Feud in 2015.[27] In an episode aired Baronial 2019, subsequently he had accomplished his fame, his family returned as contestants on Celebrity Family unit Feud.[28]

In September 2018, Blevins became the first professional person esports player to be featured on the cover of ESPN The Magazine, marking a quantum into mainstream sports fame.[29] [5]

Blevins worked with the record label Astralwerks in October 2022 to compile an album titled Ninjawerks: Vol. 1 featuring original songs by electronic music acts.[30] [31] [32] The anthology was released on December 14, 2018.[33]

Blevins was ane of several Internet celebrities featured in YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind.[34] Blevins appeared briefly during the NFL's "The 100-Year Game" advertising aslope numerous several professional football players that aired during Super Bowl LIII in 2019. He was the simply participant in the commercial with no ties any to football game in any form.[35]

Blevins has released several books with publishing house Random House. Random Firm imprint, Clarkson Potter, published Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming on August 20, 2019.[36] [37]

Blevins participated in the 2d season of the Fox reality music competition The Masked Singer as "Water ice Cream". He was voted out after his offset performance to Devo's "Whip It" and Lil Nas X'southward "Erstwhile Town Road" and thus forced to unmasked. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Blevins said that he accepted an invitation to participate since his married woman was a fan of the show.[38] [39]

Charitable work

In a fundraising charity stream held in Feb 2018, Blevins raised over $110,000 to exist donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.[40] During the beginning Fortnite Battle Royale Esports event in April 2018, Blevins gave away most $fifty,000 in prize money, with $two,500 of that going to the Alzheimer'southward Association.[41] Afterward in Apr, he participated in the #Clips4Kids charity consequence with fellow streamers DrLupo and TimTheTatman that raised over $340,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.[42] At E3 2018, Blevins and Marshmello won the Fortnite Pro-Am issue which resulted in the donation of the $1 million prize to a clemency of their choice.[43]

Controversies

In December 2016, Blevins released the accost of a donor every bit retribution for having a racist screen name and donation message. This deed, which is referred to every bit "doxing", is against the Twitch rules, which states they tin result in an "indefinite suspension". Blevins was reported for this act, but only received a 48-60 minutes suspension, which some believed was a issue of Blevins' large audience on the platform.[44] [45] Blevins later tweeted that he deserved the punishment.[45]

In March 2018, while in a stream with Nadeshot, Blevins improvised the discussion "nigga" while rapping to Logic's "44 More," a vocal in which the word was never really said. This sparked controversy inside his watching community and the full general public. He subsequently apologized for whatever offense caused and stated that he did not intend to say the discussion, instead attributing his utilize of the word to beingness "tongue-tied".[46]

In Baronial 2018, Blevins stated that he does not stream with female gamers out of respect for his wife and to avert the rumors that such streaming could create.[47] He received mixed reactions; some said that he should gear up an example and non make information technology more than difficult for female streamers to rising to prominence, while others supported his stance, claiming that he should be allowed to do what he wants to protect his matrimony.[48] [49] In response to his critics, Blevins has since reaffirmed his back up for gender equality and restated his commitment to his spousal relationship, as well mentioning some prominent female person streamers by name.[50] He noted that women are welcome to play with him in a group or at events as he claims such situations allow him to "control the narrative more than, without stupid drama and rumors flooding into our lives."[5]

In October 2018, Blevins reported a role player for "having a higher ping" than him. This led to a player claiming on November xvi, 2018, that they had been banned as a result of the study, which Ballsy Games denied.[51] Both of these incidents caused backlash against Blevins on social media.[52]

In November 2018, Blevins received criticism for falsely reporting IcyFive, a Fortnite player, for stream sniping. Afterwards Blevins was eliminated past IcyFive, Blevins' teammate, DrLupo, told him to watch for an "emote", which IcyFive did perform. Blevins took this as proof that IcyFive was stream sniping and chop-chop reported the actor. Afterward reporting IcyFive, Blevins stated that he would "become out of his way" to ensure IcyFive got banned and told IcyFive that he would not report him if he left the game immediately, despite already having reported him. As IcyFive was non viewing the stream, he did not do and so. Blevins assumed IcyFive was ignoring him and took out his phone in what appeared to exist an endeavour at directly contacting Epic Games. IcyFive claimed that he did not stream snipe Blevins and uploaded a video as proof. DrLupo later stated that he did not believe IcyFive stream sniped Blevins, mentioning that using an emote was a regular reaction to an increase in spectator count afterwards elimination, and likewise stated that he did non condone Blevins' deportment, comparing them to a rant. Blevins subsequently apologized to IcyFive on Twitter but too defendant the player of "playing the victim" and "milking" the incident, calling him "naive" for assuming players would be banned solely on his word.[53]

Filmography

Goggle box

Movie

Awards and nominations

See also

  • List of virtually-followed Twitch channels

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External links

  • Official website
  • Ninja on Twitch

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