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American streamer and YouTuber

Richard Blevins
Ninja2019screenshot.jpg

Blevins in 2019
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Richard Tyler Blevins[1]


(1991-06-05) June v, 1991 (age xxx)

Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation
  • Live streamer
  • YouTuber
Spouse(southward)

Jessica Blevins

​

(one thousand. 2017)​
Twitch data
Also known every bit NinjasHyper
Channel
  • Ninja
Years active 2011–present
Genre Gaming
Games
  • Fortnite
  • League of Legends
  • PlayerUnknown's 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
(February ane, 2022)
Total views 565 one thousand thousand
(February ane, 2022)
YouTube information
Channel
  • Ninja
Years active 2011–present
Genre Gaming
Subscribers 23.9 million[2]
(Dec 21, 2021)
Total views two.49 billion[2]
(March 28, 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 1,000,000 subscribers 2018
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg 10,000,000 subscribers 2018
Website teamninja.com

Richard Tyler Blevins [1] (born June v, 1991), amend known every bit 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 3, and gradually picked upwardly fame when he starting time started playing Fortnite Boxing Royale in late 2017. Blevins's ascension among mainstream media began in March 2018 when he played Fortnite together with Drake, Travis Scott and JuJu Smith-Schuster on stream, breaking a peak viewer count tape on Twitch. Blevins has over 17 meg followers on his Twitch channel, making information technology the well-nigh-followed Twitch channel every bit of December 2021.[iii]

Early life

Richard Tyler Blevins was built-in on June 5, 1991, and is of Welsh descent.[4] Though born in the Detroit area, he moved with his family to the Chicago suburbs when he was an babe.[v] He attended Grayslake Central High Schoolhouse, where he played soccer. Upon graduation, he decided to play video games professionally, entering tournaments, joining professional organizations, and alive streaming his games.[vi]

Career

Esports and streaming

Blevins began playing Halo 3 professionally in 2009.[seven] He played for diverse organizations including Cloud9, Renegades, Squad Liquid,[8] and most recently, Luminosity Gaming.[ citation needed ] Blevins became a streamer in 2011.[5] He began playing H1Z1, then moved to PlayerUnknown'south Battlegrounds. 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 Squads nomenclature in August 2017.[9]

Blevins began streaming the newly released Fortnite Battle Royale shortly afterwards the PUBG Gamescom Invitational. His viewership began to grow, which coincided with the game's growth in popularity over the late 2017/early 2018 period.[8] His followers on Twitch had grown from 500,000 in September 2017 to over ii 1000000 past March 2018.[ten]

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

Blevins partnered with Red Bull Esports in June 2018, and held a special Fortnite event, the Blood-red Bull Rise Till Dawn in Chicago on July 21, 2018, where players could challenge him.[sixteen] In April 2019, Crimson Bull released a limited-edition Crimson Bull can featuring an epitome of Blevins.[17] [18]

Blevins' ascent in popularity on Twitch is considered to exist synergistically tied to the success of Fortnite Boxing Royale. In December 2018, Blevins estimated he had made close to US$10 one thousand thousand in 2018, while Ballsy Games reported they had earned over U.s.a.$3 billion in acquirement in the yr, primarily due to Fortnite.[19] He became the first PC player to surpass 5,000 Fortnite wins that same month.[20] To acknowledge Blevins' importance to Fortnite 'due south success, Ballsy added a Ninja-based corrective skin to the game in January 2020 equally the start part of an "Icon Series" for other real-life personalities associated with Fortnite.[21]

Reuters reported that Blevins had been paid US$one million by Electronic Arts to promote Noon 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 Apex release in February 2019.[22]

On August one, 2019, Blevins left Twitch to stream exclusively on Microsoft'due south Mixer platform.[23] [24] His wife and manager Jessica told The Verge that the contract with Twitch had express the ability for Ninja to grow his brand outside of video gaming, and that because of the land of Twitch's community, "it really seemed like he was kind of losing himself and his love for streaming."[25]

In addition to a big number of subscribers on Twitch and Mixer, Blevins has over 24 million subscribers on YouTube equally of Apr 2021. At the time, he was earning over $500,000 per month from streaming Fortnite and credits the game's complimentary-to-play business model every bit a growth cistron.[26]

Due to the shutdown of Mixer in July 2020, Blevins was released from his exclusivity deal, enabling him to stream on other platforms.[27] On September 10, 2020, Blevins revealed that he would return to streaming on Twitch afterwards signing an exclusive multiyear deal and streamed on the platform the same 24-hour interval.[28]

Other appearances

Blevins and his family were featured in several episodes of the television game testify Family Feud in 2015.[29] In an episode aired August 2019, later on he had accomplished his fame, his family returned every bit contestants on Glory Family unit Feud.[30]

In September 2018, Blevins became the kickoff professional esports histrion to be featured on the cover of ESPN The Magazine, marking a breakthrough into mainstream sports fame.[31] [5]

Blevins worked with the tape label Astralwerks in October 2018 to compile an album titled Ninjawerks: Vol. 1 featuring original songs by electronic music acts.[32] [33] [34] The anthology was released on Dec 14, 2018.[35]

Blevins was one of several Cyberspace celebrities featured in YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind.[36] Blevins appeared briefly during the NFL's "The 100-Year Game" ad alongside numerous several professional person football players that aired during Super Bowl LIII in 2019. He was the only participant in the commercial with no ties whatsoever to football in any form.[37]

Blevins has released several books with publishing house Random Business firm. Random House imprint, Clarkson Potter, published Go Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming on August xx, 2019.[38] [39]

Blevins participated in the 2d season of the Fox reality music competition The Masked Singer as "Ice Cream". He was voted out afterward his first performance to Devo's "Whip It" and Lil Nas X's "Old Town Route" and thus forced to unmasked. In an interview with Amusement Weekly, Blevins said that he accustomed an invitation to participate since his wife was a fan of the show.[40] [41]

Charitable work

In a fundraising clemency stream held in February 2018, Blevins raised over $110,000 to exist donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.[42] During the first Fortnite Boxing Royale Esports event in April 2018, Blevins gave away nearly $50,000 in prize coin, with $2,500 of that going to the Alzheimer's Clan.[43] Afterward in April, he participated in the #Clips4Kids charity event with fellow streamers DrLupo and TimTheTatman that raised over $340,000 for St. Jude Children's Inquiry Hospital.[44] At E3 2018, Blevins and Marshmello won the Fortnite Pro-Am outcome which resulted in the donation of the $1 million prize to a charity of their choice.[45]

Controversies

In Dec 2016, Blevins released the address of a donor every bit retribution for having a racist screen proper noun and donation message. This act, which is referred to as "doxing", is against the Twitch rules, which states they tin can result in an "indefinite suspension". Blevins was reported for this deed, but only received a 48-hour suspension, which some believed was a result of Blevins' big audition on the platform.[46] [47] Blevins later tweeted that he deserved the penalization.[47]

In March 2018, while in a stream with Nadeshot, Blevins improvised the word "nigga" while rapping to Logic's "44 More than", a song in which the word was never actually said. This sparked controversy inside his watching customs and the full general public. He afterward apologized for any offense caused and stated that he did not intend to say the word, instead attributing his utilize of the word to beingness "tongue-tied".[48]

In August 2018, Blevins stated that he does not stream with female gamers out of respect for his married woman and to avoid the rumors that such streaming could create.[49] He received mixed reactions; some said that he should set an example and non make information technology more hard for female streamers to ascent to prominence, while others supported his stance, claiming that he should be immune to practise what he wants to protect his matrimony.[50] [51] In response to his critics, Blevins has since reaffirmed his support for gender equality and restated his commitment to his union, as well mentioning some prominent female streamers by name.[52] He noted that women are welcome to play with him in a grouping or at events as he claims such situations allow him to "control the narrative more, without stupid drama and rumors flooding into our lives."[5]

In October 2018, Blevins reported a actor for "having a higher ping" than him. This led to a player claiming on November sixteen, 2018, that they had been banned every bit a result of the report, which Epic Games denied.[53] Both of these incidents acquired backfire confronting Blevins on social media.[54]

In November 2018, Blevins received criticism for falsely reporting IcyFive, a Fortnite player, for stream sniping. After Blevins was eliminated by IcyFive, Blevins' teammate, DrLupo, told him to sentinel for an "emote", which IcyFive did perform. Blevins took this as proof that IcyFive was stream sniping and apace reported the histrion. After reporting IcyFive, Blevins stated that he would "go out of his style" 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 not viewing the stream, he did not practice then. Blevins assumed IcyFive was ignoring him and took out his telephone in what appeared to be an attempt at directly contacting Epic Games. IcyFive claimed that he did non stream snipe Blevins and uploaded a video every bit proof. DrLupo subsequently 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 after emptying, and also stated that he did not condone Blevins' actions, comparing them to a bluster. Blevins later apologized to IcyFive on Twitter but also accused the player of "playing the victim" and "milking" the incident, calling him "naive" for assuming players would be banned solely on his word.[55]

Filmography

Telly

Pic

Awards and nominations

Meet also

  • List of virtually-followed Twitch channels

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External links

  • Official website
  • Ninja on Twitch

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