Logan Paul congratulates Ninja on Mixer \u201cheist\u201d Ninja, imPaulsive, YouTube \/ Microsoft, Mixer[jwplayer Y7PB7YwV]YouTube star Logan Paul has spoken out on Microsoft Gaming\u2019s shutdown of Mixer on June 22, giving a surprising congratulations to streaming star Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins\u2019 reportedly jaw-dropping profit off the deal. Content creators and viewers the world over were left shocked when Microsoft announced it would be shutting down its rival platform to Amazon\u2019s Twitch, Mixer, choosing to merge with Facebook Gaming. Ninja was one of the platform\u2019s biggest stars and the first to jump ship from Twitch to sign with the site in August 2019, set to rake in as much as \u201c$40 million over three to five years\u201d as per reports from Bloomberg. However, when confronted with Mixer\u2019s shutdown, Blevins didn\u2019t accept Facebook\u2019s offer that was nearly \u201cdouble\u201d his initial contract with Mixer: Instead, he forced the defunct platform to buy him out at $30 million, as told by sources and initially reported by esports insider Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau. Sources: Facebook offered an insane offer at almost double for the original Mixer contracts of Ninja and Shroud but Loaded\/Ninja\/Shroud said no and forced Mixer to buy them out. Ninja made ~$30M from Mixer, and Shroud made ~$10M Ninja and Shroud are now free agents \u2014 Rod Breslau (@Slasher) June 22, 2020 The news has undoubtedly made massive waves in the online entertainment industry, and has even seen input the likes of YouTuber-turned-boxing pro Logan Paul, who spoke out on the topic during a June 23 episode of his \u2018imPaulsive\u2019 podcast. At first, Paul criticized those at Microsoft for moving forward with Mixer, arguing that such business models are difficult to realize when expecting influencers to build a community on a new platform. \u201cThis model, time and time again, has proven to fail,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe model where you back popular creators and hope that they\u2019ll build a an entire platform.\u201d That\u2019s not all; Paul even gave a coy congratulations to Ninja in wake of his reported profits from the Mixer shutdown, jokingly calling his $30 million deal a \u201cheist.\u201d \u201cI also wanna give a quick shoutout to Ninja,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou played the suits, my guy. That was the greatest heist I\u2019ve ever seen \u2014 and I\u2019m saying this facetiously, because it wasn\u2019t a heist. \u2026the dude genuinely loved his audience, and they loved him enough where he felt confident he could honestly jump to an entirely new platform when it happened to not work out.\u201d (Topic begins at 56:09) While Ninja has yet to respond to Paul\u2019s felicitations, the star has shown ample support for other content creators who have struggled in the wake of Mixer\u2019s sudden shutdown, leaving many without an audience or a platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Logan Paul congratulates Ninja on Mixer \u201cheist\u201d Ninja, imPaulsive, YouTube \/ Microsoft, Mixer[jwplayer Y7PB7YwV]YouTube star Logan Paul has spoken out on Microsoft Gaming\u2019s shutdown of Mixer on June 22, giving a surprising congratulations to streaming star Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins\u2019 reportedly jaw-dropping profit off the deal. Content creators and viewers the world over were left shocked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}