Ninja moves to Mixer streaming full-time this month
The Fortnite streamer is jumping ship from Twitch to start streaming full-time on Mixer in August.
Fortnite streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins is making the move from Twitch to Mixer to begin streaming there full-time this month, beginning August 2.
The massively popular "face of Fortnite" took to social media today to share the news,
“I have been holding on to this for quite some time,” said Ninja in a short clip posted to Twitter, “and I’m just super excited to let everyone know. I’ll be streaming on Mixer full-time now and I’m honestly at a loss for words. I’m freaking out in the best ways. I feel like I’m going to get back to the streaming roots.” Mixer is obviously thrilled with the situation, as it means it's now the home of one of Fortnite's biggest personalities.
"We’re thrilled to welcome Ninja and his community to Mixer. Mixer is a place that was formed around being positive and welcoming from day one, and we look forward to the energy Ninja and his community will bring," shared the platform in a statement.
A little more! pic.twitter.com/SMQEygjNiE
— Ninja (@Ninja) August 1, 2019
Twitch issued a statement of its own on the matter, and it's a lot more even-handed than you might have expected.
"We’ve loved watching Ninja on Twitch over the years and are proud of all that he’s accomplished for himself and his family, and the gaming community. We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors."
Ninja currently has his hands in several different projects, including a movie and a book, and he'll be kicking off his first stream tomorrow on Friday, August 2 at the start of Lollapalooza in Chicago. This could mean the start of something big for Mixer as the weeks go by. Will additional streamers begin jumping ship? Only time will tell.
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Notch's mamsion.
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I feel like if we taxed marketing spending we won't need to tax the wealthy.
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forsen seems to think at least 6-8mil a year for 3 yrs
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Not including subs and donations I bet too.
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$25 million over 3 years is nothing to Microsoft. The fact that there were news stories across the world about this just raised Mixer's brand recognition quite a bit.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are other big names who are going to get bought out by Microsoft.
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Good, Mixer is so much better in everyway than Twitch...
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in what just curious
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It's not that they "can't handle it" per se, 6 Mbps just isn't high enough to sustain acceptable image quality for higher motion content at that resolution and frame rate (maybe I'm just being pedantic here). You can still achieve a good looking stream, and resolutions between 1280x720 and 1920x1080 offer a decent compromise of increasing overall clarity without falling apart in motion.
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Platform tools, User Dashboard, super low latency streaming from my machine to the service and viewers, Sparks (bits), lay out and overall chat functionality.
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There are streams with high viewer counts but yes, definitely not the popularity like Twitch does. Its still growing and definitely not as big adoption as Twitch, but what service outside of Twitch, Facebook, and Youtube has that?
When people start using it, it's actually hard to go back. Twitch is all over the place for UI.-
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How many of those counts are being boosted because MS embeds the stream on the store? I know that one of guys that organizes GuardianCon would see 10-15x as many "viewers" as normal when he got embedded, much like how the twitch views for the shack channel get artificially boosted when it's at the top of the chatty.
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more competition is good. i hope they get more. if im msft I go for the DOC, all the normies would follow him
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I don't want to get into it, but basically there is double standard on Twitch and a lot of top streamers are not happy.
FYI this has nothing to do with me btw, I have a few friends who stream and I watch a bunch and that is what the word on the street is and one of the reasons why it is happening(will be happening).
If I streamed I go there for the 4K video quality :) , anyways.-
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LOL, you know what is wrong with that video you can't see her crotch or her tits then it be more legit + accurate :) . You might also want to make her get up and turn around once so she can show off her ass and then make her bend over to pet her cat or something as well.
You know what Twitch really reminds me of, a Gentlemen's Club for minors LOL :)-
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I know, he thinks a double standard is why "Male streamers" are going to move from Twitch to Mixer. Its a dumb complaint.
If someone makes good content (or bad content!) and gets an audience, fine. If you make good content (or bad content!) and fail, tough shit, its a crowded market. Eighteen months ago there were 27k Twitch partners and 150k affiliates out of 2 million active broadcasters. Numbers for 2019 haven't been made public but assume that number is much higher if the growth curve has remained consistent.
Its a crowded market. A failure on Twitch is probably going to be a failure on Mixer.-
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I mean, now we're talking about a couple of different things? I totally agree that Alinity needed to be banned much faster, but I don't see what that has to do with the root discussion. I thought everyone moved past the "female streamers are siphoning off views from other streamers" discussion years ago.
There's no question that there is inconsistency in moderation, but that really applies everywhere. If we're looking for the most egregious example then Twitter is 1000x worse than anywhere else, and in a real material way since the safety of individuals have been put at risk in the past. Reddit from four years ago was absolutely fucking awful with how laissez faire they tried to be.-
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Complaining about titty streamers after talking specifically about male streamers leaving made me think about competing with people who traffic in appearance or sex appeal.
"you know what is wrong with that video you can't see her crotch or her tits then it be more legit + accurate" was what made me go wtf. Like, complain about consistent moderation, sure, but a lot of these streamers like it or not are not breaking any rules. I see "mods?" said in earnest here all the time but its so rare when rules are actually being broken.
Tossing cats? Sure, ban the fuck out of them. Cynical titty streamers like Amouranth, they're awful but they aren't breaking any rules either. Roll your eyes at how silly they are and move on
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Exactly, to pretend it doesn't happen and exists on Twitch is just being ignorant. I am not going to be one of those sheep that drool over those specific streamers and through money at the screen cause that is not how I roll.
It's really not complicated to understand how I feel, if I was a Women and a legit gamer(like the ones on Shack) I would think the same way and probably feel like shit trying to stream on Twitch and get noticed if I was not a tittie streamer. It's not fair that's life I get that but I don't have to like it or support it and above all protect those specific streamers.
I really don't understand why any one would want to protect the tittie streamers, but I guess to each their own.-
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As long as they're not breaking rules then why do you care to ban them?
If a woman wants to make money using their appearance then that's their decision, and if you don't like it then you're free to ignore it and move on.
Either way its not a reason for the "Male gamers" you singled out to want to move over to Mixer. Less competition is a whole other thing, although I do believe that a failure on Twitch is almost certainly also going to be a failure on Mixer.-
And re: this: "if I was a Women and a legit gamer(like the ones on Shack)"
You don't raise women up by dragging other women down. Hiding behind defining one woman as "real" and another as "fake" based on your criteria is not cool. If both parties are voluntarily participating then literally nobody is being harmed.
Resenting women when it benefits them to be attractive and they're in control of that is actually bullshit and super hypocritical.
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This just in, I can look at different cameras while changing scenes. That's right, gamers are fucking obnoxious and I can call them out with ease. You guessed it, this bit is already old but I'll keep doing it...
I love her message, I don't disagree at all, but the bit is already tired. Once it goes viral, its already outplayed.-
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Look at Futureman, dude exploded on the scene, everyone was talking about his bit, he got a GLOBAL emote which is crazy for what was a flash in the pan stream. Went from 500 to 1k to 10k viewer streams at his height. Now he pulls sub 50 viewer count streams. I bet he's back on a full time job or thinking about it as whatever he made in that year is probably waning.
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It will save them for 14 days on non partnered streams and allows you to download them
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Looks pretty good but the ingestion server didn't seem to be able to keep up with the data I was pushing to it, either that or it was my network but I was getting a lot of dropped frames due to network. I was using the FTL server, maybe the other would be better.
https://mixer.com/Boarder2?vod=159133206
14 days is cool I guess but seems like this won't replace YouTube for me.
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Downloaded the mobile app on iPad and iPhone. It sucks compared to twitch imo. Laggy and can’t open chat in landscape mode. Also you can’t change stream quality while connected to Chromecast? Lame.
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Also, want to say how smart it is to go after Ninja and not someone like Doc or Shroud. They're too incel friendly. And you just know he's gonna be on that Halo Infinite multiplayer reveal just like Doc and Shroud did it for CoD today. Really good for Twitch to finally get a Pepsi to their Coke.
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The misogynist criticisms against Ninja are specious at best. He said he doesn't play with women to avoid rumors. It seems like he and his partner might have a fairly untrustworthy relationship. Again, you can find dirt on anyone. It's not surprising at all that Microsoft would want to associate themselves with the worlds most popular streamer when the most controversial thing he ever said is basically "I don't want my GF to get jealous"
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I dont think hes sexist for wanting to avoid harassment for his wife. A coward maybe for propagating the hate females get in gaming , but at the same time I really dont think we can ask him to martyr for the cause
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Online harassment is the problem. Not playing is the right move. Twitch viewership can get very, very ugly.
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Eight figure deal, easy. I know for a fact that he'll pull down $50-$100k in an afternoon for streaming a sponsored game, and this is before the usual viewers/subs/donations/bits/ads/etc.
Microsoft has that bag, and pulling in a streamer that is rivaled only by the League Of Legends stream is totally worth it for building Mixer as a platform.
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