Fortnite <\/em>streamer and gaming star Tyler \u201cNinja\u201d Blevins earned almost $10 million in 2018, he told<\/a> CNN reporter Dave Briggs.
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Related: <\/strong>The most popular individual streamers on Twitch in 2018<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>
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Ninja is used to working in quantities of 10 million at this point. He became the first Twitch streamer to reach that number of followers in the platform in early August 2018<\/a>, and has since amassed 2.8 million more. He also has 20 million YouTube subscribers and said he has 60,000 Twitch subscribers in a recent video for Wired<\/a>.
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Ninja\u2019s earnings are a consequence of his ever-increasing popularity. He streamed Fortnite <\/em>in Times Square for the ball drop on New Year\u2019s eve<\/a>, went<\/a> to several TV shows <\/a>in the second half of 2018, and shattered a Twitch concurrent viewers record<\/a> on an individual channel when streaming with rapper Drake.
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He told CNN he streamed nearly 4,000 hours of Fortnite<\/em> in 2018.
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