Ninja explains why he thinks streamers want Fortnite to \u201cdie\u201d One of the most popular faces in Fortnite, Mixer streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins, has a new theory on why he thinks so many streamers are being so critical towards the game, and the reason they want the battle royale to go away. It\u2019s hard to imagine a scenario where Fortnite dies. The game has gone from early access to a cultural phenomenon in just over a couple of years. It\u2019s been a driving force on sites like Twitch and YouTube, creating careers for some players and personalities while catapulting some of them into stardom. One of the Epic Games title\u2019s stars has arguably reached the realm of superstardom in Ninja. The popular streamer signed a bananas deal to stream exclusively with Mixer, and has seen his career rise to levels where he can sign Adidas deals, stream with celebrities, and launch wildly popular merch lines. But Ninja is well aware of the haters that are out there, and has a theory for why so many of those haters are streamers that want Fortnite to burn up after its time in the sun. \u201cThis is my new theory,\u201d he said while streaming the battle royale with Reverse2k. \u201cEveryone is trying to now hate on Fortnite, and wishing that the game would die, so that another game could come out, so they can blow up and become famous with a new game.\u201d The 28-year-old then performed a mocking impression of \u201call the butthurt kids who don\u2019t like Fortnite\u201d complaining about no one watching them. \u201cI\u2019m so good, but no one watches me, so like Fortnite\u2019s dumb! It\u2019s bad! I\u2019m waiting for the new game to come out. When\u2019s the next game gonna come out so that I can stream it and then I can be the biggest!\u201d he mimicked. Despite Ninja\u2019s theory about what young streamers\u2019 opinion about the game is, he also holds on to the belief that Fortnite will never go away. When Reverse2k brought up a hypothetical situation about it ending, Ninja quickly corrected him, saying, \u201cIt is not gonna end, I promise you.\u201d The idea of upcoming streamers looking for new games to help \u201claunch their careers\u201d isn\u2019t very far-fetched, as recent big releases are testament to a popular game\u2019s ability to boost streaming stars. More recent titles like Apex Legends and Escape from Tarkov are helping newer streamers reach insane heights, while also bringing in fresh sets of eyes on already established personalities. Fortnite itself has created more stars than just Ninja, and while many of these streamers branch out to play other popular games as well, a lot of them don\u2019t stray too far from the iconic title that helped them accomplish so much. The success of the battle royale hasn\u2019t stopped other games from becoming popular on their own, and thus hasn\u2019t stopped newer streamers from \u201cblowing up\u201d with the success of those titles. If, and this is a big if, Fortnite were to end, it\u2019s hard to imagine any new game completely filling the void it would leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja explains why he thinks streamers want Fortnite to \u201cdie\u201d One of the most popular faces in Fortnite, Mixer streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins, has a new theory on why he thinks so many streamers are being so critical towards the game, and the reason they want the battle royale to go away. It\u2019s hard to […]<\/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-76736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76736","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=76736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}