Tyler Blevins, who is popularly known as “Ninja,” is an American internet personality. He is an online gamer and is one of the most famous players for playing the game “Fortnite, ” Blevins has a massive following on social media accounts and has 23.9 million subscribers. Ninja has achieved to get a total of 481 million views on YouTube for some of his videos. He has over 14.6 million followers on Twitch.
Net Worth
Ninja has a net worth of $25 million. He owns $5 a month per subscription and his regular income is around $500,000 and $1 million every month. He has earned his net worth from playing video games. Ninja signed a deal with Red Bull Esports, and is the first player to become the Esports player for the cover of “ESPN The Magazine.”
Early Life
Tyler Blevins real name is Richard Tyler Blevins. He was born on June 5, 1991, in Detroit, Michigan. He spent his childhood in Grayslake, Illinois. He grew up with his mother, father, and older brothers. His parents belong of Welsh descent. His father introduced Ninja to video games when he was quite young. He attended Grayslake Central High School and worked at Noodles & Company.
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Career
Blevins started to play video games professionally, with the game “Halo 3.” He has played with Team Liquid, Cloud9, and Renegades. He started playing online with “H1Z1” and “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (“PUBG”). Ninja became popular with the game Fortnite Battle Royale.
Ninja played “Fortnite” game with Drake, Travis Scott, and Juju Smith. He set a record for the largest concurrent audience. Ninja continued to play Epic Games and he partnered up with the musician Marshmello. Blevins broke his s Twitch record and earned 667,000 viewers.
Tyler played with Red Bull Esports and started streaming on Mixer; after Mixer. He started to stream online on the YouTube channel. In early 2020, he earned $500,000 per month from playing his game “Fortnite” streams.
Tyler and his family have been a part of the “Family Feud,” and they also joined the “Celebrity Family Feud” in 2019. Ninja was the writer behind the “Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming.”
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Controversies
Blevins has declared that he would not stream with female gamers. He wanted to protect his marriage and did not want to create any rumors surrounding him and female gamers. In 2016 Tyler was suspended from Twitch for almost 48 hours. He was banned as he released the address of a donor and also left a racist donation message. His screen name was also complicated. In 2018, Ninja ad-libbed a racist rapping with Logic’s “44 More”.
Personal Life
Tyler was in a relationship with the fellow gamer Jessica Goch. The couple met at a “Halo” tournament in 2010. The couple started their relationship in 2013. They got married in August 2017 and they went to the Caribbean for their honeymoon together. Goch is now known as Jess Blevins. She is also Ninja’s manager and is a popular streamer as well.
