Ninja accused of using "mental health as a marketing strategy" after announcing return to streaming

1 year 9 months ago

After fans feared he was taking time off to tackle a mental health crisis, streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins has returned to announce he'll now be streaming everywhere.

Last week, Ninja tweeted "I just need a break... I don't know when I will be back, or where", removed his profile pictures across all platforms, and changed his display names to "User Not Found".

That followed a livestream in which Ninja appeared to "rage quit" a game of Fortnite, signing off by saying: "I got to take a break from streaming, dude. I'm going to lose my fucking mind, bro... Chat, I don't know when I'm going to be live next, but I gotta get off, man."

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Ed Nightingale

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