Ninja reacts to \u201cweird\u201d Fortnite players making money stream sniping him Epic Games \/ NinjaAs one of the biggest streamers in the world, there\u2019s always a target on Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins\u2019 back in a game of Fortnite, as players want to brag that they took him down. But, some are even making money out of it. Stream sniping has almost always been a thing, ever since streaming multiplayer games on places like Twitch became popular over the last decade. The term refers to players who watch a streamer\u2019s broadcast to pinpoint their location in a match, then use that information to either kill them or troll them. It\u2019s an especially frustrating problem in battle royale games, where the goal is survival at all costs. Ninja is no stranger to stream snipers, and is likely targeted on a daily basis, but some players are taking this annoying practice even deeper, by placing \u201cbounties\u201d on the streamer\u2019s head. Apparently organized in Discord, Ninja\u2019s duo partner Reverse2k explains: \u201cThere\u2019s this Discord [server], a stream sniping Discord, and the Discord owners put bounties on your head to kill you, and it\u2019s so stupid.\u201d Bemused, Ninja simply replies \u201cWhat\u2026?\u201d, as Reverse continues: \u201cYou pay in to get in \u2013 so you pay $10 to get into the Discord and you might have a $100 bounty on Ninja. So, they go stream snipe you, and if they kill you they get $100.\u201d Reverse then claimed that the team who had just attacked them in that match were apparently members of such a Discord server, and had failed in their quest to eliminate them. Ninja responded by calling the stream sniping bounties \u201cso weird\u201d, but he probably wasn\u2019t even that surprised. He\u2019s had his run-ins with countless stream snipers before, so if there\u2019s money to be made, it\u2019s the logical next step. Stream sniping is not only widely frowned upon, but is often against a games\u2019 user agreement, and titles such as PUBG and Fortnite will hand out bans for players found to be targeting streamers. Twitch and other platforms also have policies against it, and will ban streamers targeting other streamers. However, Mixer, Ninja\u2019s current platform, does not specify any rules against it in its User Conduct page. Twitch explicitly mentions stream sniping as being a form of cheating, describing it as \u201cexploiting another broadcaster\u2019s live broadcast in order to harass them in-game, such as stream sniping.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja reacts to \u201cweird\u201d Fortnite players making money stream sniping him Epic Games \/ NinjaAs one of the biggest streamers in the world, there\u2019s always a target on Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins\u2019 back in a game of Fortnite, as players want to brag that they took him down. But, some are even making money out of […]<\/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-76810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76810","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=76810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}