Ninja admits he often struggles with the \u201chuge pressure\u201d of Twitch streaming Twitch: NinjaTyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has opened up on the struggles of streaming on Twitch, and the \u201chuge pressure\u201d that comes with modern internet fame \u2014 namely, the feeling that everything is just one mistake away from disappearing. Fortnite\u2019s first superstar, Ninja, is one of the most famous streamers in the world, even after a 12-month stint on Mixer knocked him out of Twitch\u2019s upper echelons. In the past half-decade Blevins has risen from retired Halo pro to an undisputed titan in the streaming world, commanding nearly 17 million followers on Twitch alone, and often broadcasts to 20k loyal fans at a time. He\u2019s even taken his success mainstream, hosting events, appearing in movies, and more. Ninja\u2019s rise hasn\u2019t been all sunshine and roses, however. Speaking to The Cosmic Wonder, the Twitch star opened up on one side of his Twitch streaming career he\u2019s struggled with: the \u201cimmense pressure.\u201d Ninja revealed he\u2019s always struggled to handle the pressure of his Twitch stardom, from his fledgling 2016 streams, to his popularity spike at the height of Fortnite\u2019s worldwide fame, and even to now. \u201cThere\u2019s so much pressure,\u201d he declared. \u201cIt always feels like, \u2018don\u2019t mess up\u2019. There\u2019s always that hovering over your head. It\u2019s so taxing. Even when you grow, and you know you have a loyal audience, you\u2019re actually at a stage where you have to keep them happy. \u201cThere\u2019s always something that adds even more of that work. \u201cYou\u2019re supposed to work less,\u201d the Twitch star continued, \u201cbut somehow there always just ends up being more! It\u2019s like, even if you\u2019re not streaming as much you\u2019re doing more work in the backend, more calls, more press. You have to, so things don\u2019t go wrong.\u201d Ninja did add there\u2019s one way to alleviate the stress: \u201cThat pressure isn\u2019t always there\u2026 if you make sure you\u2019re a good person, you won\u2019t have a problem.\u201d Those pressures haven\u2019t deterred Ninja from pushing on with his glittering Twitch career, however, and the once-top Fortnite star says, despite all the struggles, he wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. He said: \u201cI understand the privilege that I have.\u201d Few can boast the streaming glories Ninja has already raked in since exploding in popularity alongside Fortnite either. He still sits as Twitch\u2019s most-followed streamer, and has slowly built his internet fame into mainstream culture since his late 2016 streaming debut too. Even with all the pressures Twitch brings, Tyler Blevins wouldn\u2019t trade it in for the world. \u201cI understand the situation I am in,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m grateful for everything that has happened, everything I have in my life right now. I am blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja admits he often struggles with the \u201chuge pressure\u201d of Twitch streaming Twitch: NinjaTyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has opened up on the struggles of streaming on Twitch, and the \u201chuge pressure\u201d that comes with modern internet fame \u2014 namely, the feeling that everything is just one mistake away from disappearing. Fortnite\u2019s first superstar, Ninja, is one […]<\/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-56717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56717","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=56717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}