Ninja explains why his Twitch decline doesn\u2019t bother him YouTube: NinjaTyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has explained why his decline on streaming platform Twitch does not bother him, explaining that he has \u201cno intention\u201d of being that guy anymore. Few streamers have seen anything even comparable to the meteoric rise Ninja experienced in late 2017. Off the back of Fortnite\u2019s similarly staggering explosion in popularity, the former Halo pro\u2019s top-tier gameplay and fiery spirit endeared millions of fans to flock to his Twitch streams. He remains the most-followed streamer on the Amazon-owned streaming service, sitting at over 17 million followers. However, it hasn\u2019t been all plain sailing for the 30-year-old. A move to Microsoft\u2019s Mixer ended with the service collapsing, and his return to Twitch has never seen him regain his prior popularity. According to TwitchTracker, Blevins\u2019 streams average around 11,000 viewers. That is compared to audiences in the hundreds of thousands at his peak. Despite the fall in viewership and audience engagement, a recent interview with the Washington Post saw Ninja explain why he doesn\u2019t mind the changes. \u201cNo one\u2019s gonna stay on top forever, especially when it comes to live-streaming; there\u2019s always somebody new and hot,\u201d Blevins said. \u201cI have no intention of being that guy anymore. I know I\u2019m not going to pull 100,000 viewers on [Twitch] anymore. I don\u2019t have time to do that. I have a wife, I have a family.\u201d Fortnite itself does not pull in the viewers it once did, and Ninja (alongside many other former-Fortnite streamers) can be found playing a variety of titles now. He continued: \u201c[Fans] are focusing on what they can see in front of them, which is numbers and \u2018Ninja isn\u2019t getting 100,000 viewers anymore\u2019, but what they don\u2019t see is everything we created while we were massive and [the] global recognition we have that\u2019s bigger than just streaming on Twitch.\u201d At his biggest, Ninja broke the records for most concurrent viewers on a single streamer\u2019s broadcast (666,000 in a Fortnite session with Drake) and most subscribed creator on the platform (269,000). Both records have since been broken. It goes to show that nothing lasts forever and, as Ninja is keen to emphasize, fans don\u2019t always see the whole picture when they go solely off numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja explains why his Twitch decline doesn\u2019t bother him YouTube: NinjaTyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has explained why his decline on streaming platform Twitch does not bother him, explaining that he has \u201cno intention\u201d of being that guy anymore. Few streamers have seen anything even comparable to the meteoric rise Ninja experienced in late 2017. Off the […]<\/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-56572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56572","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=56572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}