The famous Fortnite streamer Tyler “Ninja” Belvins has just got a feature by ESPN on September 18th. The magazine has ninjas face on the front with the words “THE LEGEND OF NINJA, BIGGEST GAMER IN THE WORLD.” which is a very bold statement because of the other professional gamers in the world, such as Nadeshot and people like Tfue that have been in the pro gaming scene forever. But in a way, they aren’t wrong everybody knows who ninja is. Since the release of Fortnite Battle Royale in August of 2017 Ninja has been grinding out the game and was one of the first people to start gaining recognition for the game. Other people like Nick eh 30 and TSM Myth got popular for their quick editing skills and building techniques. TSM Daequan got attention because of his double pump accuracy and funny commentary. And other streamers such as my favorite streamer CDNThe3rd got big off the game by creating montages and funny moments for his youtube channel, which I found when he had 33k subs and I watched him grow to 1.2 million in 4 months.
The magazine was about Ninja and his rise to fame. The article is about the life story of how he loved video games ever since a young age and started to play halo for Luminosity gaming where he won many halo events, where he would meet Tfue who played halo professionally for Denial eSports. Both were good friends back in Halo and are now looked at as the best Fortnite gamers together and when they face off it is very interesting to watch. After Halo Ninja realized he could make a living off of video games and streaming. He would rack up anywhere from 2,500-3,000 dollars a month so with that he would drop out of college and continue his streaming days. He would play games like H1Z1 and PUBG, before Fortnite would really blow him up.
Ninja would have a very serious problem because of his retina detaching he needed eye surgery to fix the problem. He wasn’t able to Livestream for this time and when he finally came back 9 weeks later he had lost some fans and viewers because of his absence from Twitch. It didn’t matter though because Fortnite would come out and change his life forever. Ninja would play with people such as Marshmello, Drake, Lil Yachty and JuJu Smith. Now Ninja has 18,175,200 Subs on Youtube, 10 million on Instagram and 3.34 million on Twitter. Is there anybody out there who will take the throne in the future?
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