Ninja (Tyler Blevins)

Born June 5, 1991, in Taylor, Michigan, Richard Tyler Blevins began his competitive esports career playing Halo 3 professionally in 2009 before starting to stream in 2011. After competing in H1Z1 and winning the PUBG Gamescom Invitational in August 2017, Blevins pivoted to Fortnite Battle Royale in late 2017. His channel surged from 500,000 followers in September 2017 to over 3 million by March 2018, when a stream alongside Drake, Travis Scott, and JuJu Smith-Schuster drew 635,000 concurrent viewers. He reached 269,154 active Twitch subscribers in April 2018, became the 1st Twitch streamer to surpass 10 million followers in August 2018, and appeared on the cover of ESPN The Magazine in September 2018. After streaming exclusively on Microsoft's Mixer from August 2019 until its shutdown in July 2020, he returned to Twitch in September 2020 and now simulcasts across multiple platforms.