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【what is oneg】Twitch's Top Streamer Made $10 Million in 2018

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Fortnite

has boosted the value of creator Epic Games by a staggering amount. But the mega-popular video game has also turned some of its players into mega millionaires.

【what is oneg】Twitch's Top Streamer Made $10 Million in 2018


Richard Tyler Blevins,what is oneg who’s better known as Ninja among fans of the game, says he made

【what is oneg】Twitch's Top Streamer Made $10 Million in 2018


nearly $10 million

【what is oneg】Twitch's Top Streamer Made $10 Million in 2018


in 2018 playing


Fortnite


. And he could well be poised to top that this year.


Ninja is, hands down, the most popular


Fortnite


streamer on Twitch and YouTube. He has become a cultural phenomenon in the gaming world, with one stream last year gathering 667,000 viewers. (His YouTube channel has over 20 million subscribers.)


To many, those numbers don’t mean a lot. Think of it this way, though. About 12.5 million Twitch users follow Ninja on the game streaming site, tuning in when he’s online playing (which is often). About 40,000 of those pay to do so, paying between $5 and $25 per month.


Over on YouTube, meanwhile, he earns a percentage of every ad that airs during his videos. Those video views, last year, ranged from 3 million to 38 million. That adds up quickly.


Beyond that, companies like Samsung, Uber Eats and Red Bull sponsor Ninja, paying to be associated with him.


Some might argue that playing video games doesn’t count as work, but Ninja points out that he played more than 4,000 hours of


Fortnite


last year. That’s the equivalent of a 15-plus-hour workday five days a week.


Fortnite


fever, meanwhile, is still going strong. The game which


crossed the billion-dollar threshold


in July 2018. Also last year, Epic announced it would


provide $100 million


to find prize pools for the game’s first year of competitive play. That figure was four times larger than any e-sports tournament had ever offered. And over Thanksgiving weekend, it launched a


$1 million qualifying event


for an upcoming World Cup-like


Fortnite


tournament.


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