Ninja - Updated Apr 2024

Ninja is an American streamer, YouTuber, and professional gamer. Ninja gained fame while competing in professional gaming tournaments and streaming his gameplay on various platforms. Similarly, following his immense popularity, he has become a sort of social media celebrity.

Early Life and Education

Ninja’s real name is Tyler Blevins and was born in Michigan on 5th June 1991. His age is 32 years old as of now. Similarly, he holds American nationality and was born under the star sign Gemini.

Moving towards his family, he was born to American parents of Welsh descent. His parents are Chuck Blevins and Synthia Blevins. Likewise, he has a brother named, Chris Blevins. While growing up, Ninja’s father introduced him to video games and he quickly got good at it.

The details regarding Ninja’s early schooling and academics are not yet revealed. However, we do know that he attended Grayslake Central High School located in Illinois, USA. During high school, he grew more passionate about gaming. Moreover, he decided to pursue a career in competitive gaming.

Ninja – Career and Professional life

He started playing Halo 3 professionally in the year 2009. He got insanely good at it and soon began playing for teams such as Cloud9, Renegade, Team Liquid, and Luminosity Gaming. In addition to Halo 3, he also plays Fortnite and Player Unknowns Battlegrounds.

After the release of the game Fortnite, he immediately started playing the game and streaming it on Twitch. As the game received popularity and fame his followers on Twitch too increased exponentially. He garnered almost 2 million followers on his Twitch channel. Similarly, in March of 2018, He set the world record for the most Twitch viewers with 635,000 live Viewers. He was playing Fortnite with Drake and Travis Scott. This led Fortnite to host its competitive gaming tournament in which He teamed up with Marshmello and won.

Caption: A thumbnail from one of his YouTube videos (source: Instagram)

Furthermore, He broke his record on Twitch with 667,000 live viewers in April of 2018. Aside from gaming he also has a YouTube account. He goes by the name Ninja online and has a staggering 24. million subscribers on his channel. Similarly, he set up the channel on 11th November 2011 and has published more than a thousand videos on his channel. He has been able to acquire at least a million views on each of his videos.

His very first video on his channel is titled ‘First of Many’ and was posted on 15th December 2011. The video has 6.5 million views. Likewise, the most-watched video on the channel is his Fortnite gameplay video titled ’32 Kill Solo Squads’. The video was posted on 31st January 2018 and has 46 million views. He has established himself as a respected gamer in both the gaming and YouTube communities.

Ninja – Net Worth 2024

He has received Silver, Gold, and Diamond play buttons from YouTube for surpassing 100k, 1 million, and 10 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. Reflecting on his other awards he has won the following. 2018 Streamy awards, The Gamer awards 2018 for content creator of the year, 2019 Shorty Awards- Twitch streamer of the year, and Streamy awards- Live streamer of the year.

Likewise, the famous gamer enjoys a net worth of a staggering USD 15 million as of 2022. His career as a professional gamer and streamer has contributed the most to his wealth.

Ninja – Relationship status

He is married to Jessica Goch who is also a Twitch Streamer. The pair had been dating for quite some time before they married each other in the year 2017 on 12th August. Moreover, both He and Jessica are passionate gamers and Streamers.

Caption: Ninja with his wife(source: Instagram)

Scandals

The popular Streamer has been tied to various controversies over the years. Blevins stated that he would not stream with any female streamers out of respect for his wife. This made his fans angry and some even blamed him for not supporting female streamers.

In the year 2016, He revealed the location and address of a Twitch donor who had a racist username. This was against Twitch guidelines and he faced a 48-hour suspension from the platform.

Body Measurements

He is a guy of medium height and build. He stands tall at 5 feet 8 inches and weighs 55 kg. Similarly, he has brown hair which he frequently dyes, and a pair of Brown eyes.

Caption: Ninja posing for a picture(source: Instagram)

Social Media

The popular gamer is famous on social media platforms as well. He is active on Instagram and Twitter. Similarly, he has a staggering 12.9 million followers on his Instagram account ‘@ninja‘ and 6.7 million followers on his Twitter account.

Moreover, he joined YouTube on 11 November 2022 and has mustered more than 23.8 million subscribers to date.