On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Richard Tyler Blevins ninja professional smoothie maker born on June 5, 1991, and is of Welsh descent. Blevins began playing Halo 3 professionally in 2009. Blevins began streaming the newly released Fortnite Battle Royale shortly after the PUBG Gamescom Invitational.
In March 2018, Blevins became the first Twitch streamer to surpass 3 million followers on the platform. Blevins partnered with Red Bull Esports in June 2018, and held a special Fortnite event, the Red Bull Rise Till Dawn in Chicago on July 21, 2018, where players could challenge him. In April 2019, Red Bull released a limited-edition Red Bull can featuring an image of Blevins. Blevins’ rise in popularity on Twitch is considered to be synergistically tied to the success of Fortnite Battle Royale. He became the first PC player to surpass 5,000 Fortnite wins that same month.
Epic added a Ninja-based cosmetic outfit to the game in January 2020 as the first part of an “Icon Series” for other real-life personalities associated with Fortnite. Electronic Arts to promote Apex Legends, a competing battle royale game to Fortnite, for playing the game on his Twitch stream and promoting the title through social media account during Apex release in February 2019. On August 1, 2019, Blevins left Twitch to stream exclusively on Microsoft’s Mixer platform. Due to the shutdown of Mixer in July 2020, Blevins was released from his exclusivity deal, enabling him to stream on other platforms.
On September 10, 2020, Blevins revealed that he would return to streaming on Twitch after signing an exclusive multiyear deal and streamed on the platform the same day. Blevins and his family were featured in several episodes of the television game show Family Feud in 2015. In an episode aired August 2019, after he had achieved his fame, his family returned as contestants on Celebrity Family Feud. In September 2018, Blevins became the first professional esports player to be featured on the cover of ESPN The Magazine, marking a breakthrough into mainstream sports fame. Blevins worked with the record label Astralwerks in October 2018 to compile an album titled Ninjawerks: Vol. 1 featuring original songs by electronic music acts.
The album was released on December 14, 2018. Blevins has released several books with publishing house Random House. Random House imprint, Clarkson Potter, published Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming on August 20, 2019. Blevins participated in the second season of the Fox reality music competition The Masked Singer as “Ice Cream”. 110,000 to be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
In December 2016, Blevins released the address of a donor as retribution for having a racist screen name and donation message. This act, which is referred to as “doxing”, is against the Twitch rules, which states they can result in an “indefinite suspension”. In March 2018, while in a stream with Nadeshot, Blevins improvised the word “nigga” while rapping to Logic’s “44 More”, a song in which the word was never actually said. This sparked controversy within his watching community and the general public. In August 2018, Blevins stated that he does not stream with female gamers out of respect for his wife and to avoid the rumors that such streaming could create. In October 2018, Blevins reported a player for “having a higher ping” than him.
This led to a player claiming on November 16, 2018, that they had been banned as a result of the report, which Epic Games denied. Both of these incidents caused backlash against Blevins on social media. RTB stands for Richard Tyler Blevins my full name :D! 500,000 a month playing video games”.