Tyler Blevins Net Worth: Online superstar Ninja, his earnings, YouTube, twitch, wife, family

Richard Tyler Blevins, commonly known as "Ninja," is an American Twitch streamer, Internet personality, and the professional gamer has an estimated net worth of around $17 million.

Ninja is a talented video game player known for his Fortnite mastery and other seemingly difficult games he plays with ease. The video gamer made a career out of what is usually the hobby of many people and has since amassed a huge following online.

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Income Source and Assets of Tyler Blevins

Belvins earns an impressive amount from his career that contributes to his net worth. Belvis makes more than $500k a month playing Fortnite and earns $350k a month from his Twitch subscription.

In addition, Blevins also earns a lot from his YouTube channel. He earns $25.7k–$411k a month and $308.3k–$4.9 million a year. He and his family also appeared on the show, Family Feud, from where they earned around $40k.

He also bought a house which he showed in his YouTube video "Ninja's *NEW* House Tour | Jess Swears on Stream | Ninja Investing Advice" in 2018.

Tyler also has a $230k Ferrari 458.

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Charity of Tyler Blevins

Tyler Blevins is a strong supporter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. In February 2018, he donated $110k for the foundation. Moreover, he also donated $2500 to the Alzheimer’s Association from his prize money $50k from his first Fortnite Battle Royale Esports in 2018.

The same year, he along with Dr. Lupo and Timthetatman participated in the #Clips4Kids event from where they raised over $340k. Similarly, he and Marshmello won the Fortnite Pro-Am event in 2018 and donated $1 million to a charity of their own choice.

He and family appeared at the game show Steve Harvey Family Feuding where he helped them win $20,000.

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Tyler Blevins-Surgery

He had to undergo surgery to correct his eye impairment when he suddenly went blind while playing a video game. The gamer missed out in many tournaments due to the surgery and his number of followers dropped to about 400k on twitch but thankfully he recovered enough to ply his trade and get those numbers up again.

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Early Life of Richard Tyler Blevins

Ninja was born and named Richard Tyler Blevins to American Parents Chucks Blevins on June 5, 1991, in Detroit, Michigan, USA and whose ancestry can be traced back to Wales. He grew up in Chicago's suburbs. He has two older brothers, John, and Chris Blevins, with whom he played video games from the tender age of 9.

The young Ninja or Richard Tyler Blevins had his high school education at Grayslake Central High School and joined the school soccer team. During this time, the lad worked as a Noodles and Company eatery before proceeding to Silver Lake College but dropped out in his second year to focus fully on his gaming career.

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Career of Richard Tyler Blevins

Ninja began his career as a game streamer in 2009 streaming Halo series (1,2 and 3). His talent and skills were fine-tuned in more than 10 hours of daily practice; the skillful and tactical game plays as he mastered and perfected a lot of moves. He played competitively in Dallas, Ohio, California, and Columbus in 2011. By 2012, he was in the Halo 4 MLG fall championship where he competed with popular electronic sports teams like Liquid and Renegades.

The talented video gamer emerged as the world number 1 gamer after demolishing the majority of halo players earning about $100 a day for his live streamed games. His popularity in the gaming world grew after he signed up with Twitch where he had the opportunity to play against the famous Canadian Rapper Drake and American Rapper Travis Scott, due to which his subscription numbers on Twitch reach about 11 million after the video went viral.

His video game career's success brought him a partnership deal with Red Bull Esports in June 2018 and he also featured in the cover of the ESPN sports magazine in September 2018. He signed an electronic music contract with Astralwerks in October 2018 to facilitate the compilation of' Ninja Werks' of acts like Nero, Alesso the album was released in December 2018.

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Awards and nominations

Year: 2018

8th Streamy Awards-Creator of the Year

Esports Awards-Esports Personality of the Year

The Game Awards 2018-Content Creator of the Year

Year: 2019

11th Shorty Awards -Twitch Streamer of the Year

Personal Life of Richard Tyler Blevins

The star of Twitch and YouTube is currently married to Jessica Goch a.k.a Jessy or Jess who goes on social media with the moniker JGh0sty. The two dated a few years before saying "I do" to each other. The lovers announced their engagement on Twitter in November 2016 and then tied the knot in the presence of their family and friends in August 2017.

Tyler Blevins - Controversies

A few controversies have trailed the American youtube star. Some of them include; his statement about not playing with female gamers so as not to find himself in a compromised situation, his use of the word' Nigga' when he was raping one of Logic's songs while playing with Nadeshot. His comment about not playing with girls gave him a mixed reaction from fans, while his use of the N-word was widely criticized. 

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