Revealed: Mouthwatering millions Ninja made at height of Fortnite fame PixlrTyler \u201cNinja\u201d Blevins has finally lifted the lid on how much he was raking in at the height of his explosive Fortnite fame, and it\u2019s mind-blowing: in just one month, the Twitch superstar banked more than $5m from his creator code alone. It\u2019s no secret streaming on Twitch is a wealthy pastime for the biggest names on the platform. There\u2019s subscriptions and donos, and if you go big \u2014 like Ludwig\u2019s recent viral subathon \u2014 you could be looking at $100-200k a month. Then there\u2019s sponsorships, brand deals, and exclusivity contracts; high-profile creators like Ninja and Shroud attract huge bidding wars. Streamers have also revealed in the past signing up for advertising streams with studios can pocket them a pretty penny too. Asmongold was offered $300k to play a new title for \u201ca single day,\u201d and insiders told Dexerto that Shroud and Dr Disrespect hauled $1m to play Apex Legends. All that was dwarfed, however, by Ninja\u2019s earning power at the height of his Fortnite popularity back in 2018, when he was raking in millions a month. Ninja finally made his Fortnite return this week, breaking a lengthy hiatus that was spurred on by stream snipers and \u201cstupid baby f**king clout-chasing losers.\u201d During his re-debut, the Twitch star got onto the topic of earnings in Epic\u2019s flagship battle royale title. While everyone knows he was topping the earnings chart in mid-2018 with subs and rafts of donations, he also revealed a \u201cmassive\u201d part of his cash came from Fortnite\u2019s popular \u201cSupport-a-Creator\u201d code. \u201cI think the most I ever made in a month off the Fortnite creator code was something like $5 million,\u201d the streamer admitted. \u201cI\u2019m not joking.\u201d \u201cYou know, it\u2019s funny,\u201d he continued soon after, \u201cbut I actually talked sh*t to someone the other day who was just roasting my League of Legends game, and I told him that I could buy his family tree.\u201d Read More: How does Ninja make money? – Creators only get 5% of every purchase, so the Fortnite skins Ninja sold must have been astronomical; Epic likely netted around $100m just from his sales. Back in 2019, the former Halo pro suggested he made \u201cclose to $10 million\u201d across the entirety of 2018, with 70% of that coming from Twitch and YouTube. If that\u2019s the case, he may have been lowballing \u2014 even if $5M was an anomaly, earning a fifth of that on average would have netted around $14-15 million. Combining these figures, Dexerto tips \u201cthe best year of [Ninja\u2019s] life\u201d actually made him closer to a smidge under $25 million in 2018. It\u2019s truly mouthwatering stuff, and that doesn\u2019t even include his Red Bull deal or the streamer\u2019s monster Mixer signing that was soon to come either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Revealed: Mouthwatering millions Ninja made at height of Fortnite fame PixlrTyler \u201cNinja\u201d Blevins has finally lifted the lid on how much he was raking in at the height of his explosive Fortnite fame, and it\u2019s mind-blowing: in just one month, the Twitch superstar banked more than $5m from his creator code alone. It\u2019s no secret […]<\/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-77017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77017","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=77017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}