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Ninja is the first gamer on the cover of ESPN Magazine
Ninja is the first professional gamer to feature on the cover of ESPN Magazine. The 27-year-old streamer, real name Tyler Blevins, is most famous for playing Fortnite and has more than 11 million followers on Twitch.
He reached the mainstream earlier this year when he broke Fortnite streaming records after playing with Drake.
But some people are questioning if a gamer should be in the same category as athletes.
Ninja started off as an e-sports competitor, mostly playing Halo. He switched to streaming, becoming known for battle royale - or last player standing - game Player Unknown's Battlegrounds. But when Fortnite introduced its battle royale mode, Ninja jumped ship and then started getting really big.
Back in March, Forbes reported that he had 3 million followers and 4 million YouTube subscribers. He now has 11 million Twitch followers and 18 million YouTube subscribers.
Related: Ninja explains his choice not to stream with female gamers
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21 2018, @06:36AM
The only thing I meant is that a lot of people pay a lot of attention to YouTubers and Streamers, who display as much intelligence as an artichoke. I know a lot of people aren't very intelligent, not to bring up Carlin, but let's think how stupid an average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that. I think I'm just frustrated that intelligent stuff like space exploratoon, science and tech aren't appreciated enough. I recently read a screenplay fpr the movie Idiocracy and hell take it, it feels like we are living in an environment from this goddamn movie, and we are really goign down the drain, Trumpo being prime example. Will we let morons, policos, autocrats and other trash take over our planet's future? Sorry for the diatribe.