Richard Tyler Blevins, better known as
Ninja, is an American online streamer, YouTuber and professional gamer. Blevins began streaming through participating in several esports teams in competitive play for
Halo 3, and gradually picked up fame when he first started playing
Fortnite Battle Royale in late 2017. Blevins gained the notice of mainstream media in March 2018 when he played
Fortnite together with Drake, Travis Scott and JuJu Smith-Schuster on stream, breaking a peak viewer count record on Twitch. Blevins has over 18 million followers on his Twitch channel, making it the most-followed Twitch channel as of March 2023.