Ninja explains why Twitch \u2018chat baiters\u2019 have made him cut back on streaming YouTube: NinjaTwitch superstar Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins is one of the most popular streamers of all time, but he\u2019s now revealed he\u2019s spending less time streaming because of people in the chat trying to make him slip up. Over the past half-decade, Ninja has reached incredible heights, becoming a huge name in the gaming world. He remains the most-followed person on Twitch, with almost 17 million followers, and recently landed a cameo in a major movie. But there are downsides to being such a prominent figure in the gaming community. While having thousands of people tune into your content is the dream for many streamers, there\u2019s also the risk of people trying to tear you down. During a couple\u2019s Q&A video with his wife Jessica, one viewer asked Ninja how often he feels the things he says during live streams get taken out of context. The short answer? All the time. In fact, he\u2019s now streaming less because of it. \u201cThe reason I\u2019m not streaming as much as I normally do right now, is because every time I stream, I feel like I\u2019m getting a bunch of donations and questions and people in the chat trying to get me to say something, and then it ends up being twisted and it blows up in my face,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like, f**k this, I don\u2019t need to be giving people chances to clickbait me and make me look bad, it\u2019s stupid. You don\u2019t become fake, but you [do] start answering things in non-serious ways.\u201d Topic starts at 5:10 Ninja\u2019s wife Jessica also weighed in on the situation, explaining that \u201cevery time Tyler says something it gets twisted\u201d and highlighting the huge amount of stress that comes with \u201cknowing that every single second of what you\u2019re doing is being looked at\u201d. This isn\u2019t the first time Ninja has opened up about the downsides associated with modern internet fame: he recently admitted that the \u201cpressure\u201d of streaming gets to him sometimes, although he did argue that \u201cif you\u2019re a good person, you won\u2019t have a problem\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja explains why Twitch \u2018chat baiters\u2019 have made him cut back on streaming YouTube: NinjaTwitch superstar Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins is one of the most popular streamers of all time, but he\u2019s now revealed he\u2019s spending less time streaming because of people in the chat trying to make him slip up. Over the past half-decade, Ninja […]<\/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-56582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56582","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=56582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}