How Ninja Joining Mixer Impacts The Fortnite Community

Ninja has been a staple among the Fortnite community since the game kicked off a few years ago and in a very surprising move, Ninja decided to move streaming platforms by leaving Twitch and joined Mixer. How does this affect all parties involved going forward?

Some big news along with the release of Season 10 came out from Fortnite today as Ninja announced his next step in his career by leaving streaming giant Twitch and taking his talents to Mixer, a streaming platform that allows players to be more interactive by actually participating in gameplay.

Here is the announcement from Ninja himself on Twitter.

This move is huge for Ninja, Twitch and Mixer alike. Mixer had this to say about acquiring Fortnite’s biggest name,

"“We’re thrilled to welcome Ninja and his community to Mixer. Mixer is a place that was formed around being positive and welcoming from day one, and we look forward to the energy Ninja and his community will bring.”"

Ninja has rebranded in the past and partnered with companies and is known now as a Red Bull athlete, but his move to Mixer will likely propel the Microsoft led streaming service in the right direction to compete with Youtube and Twitch.

For Ninja this move makes sense. He will have absolutely no competition on Mixer in the Fortnite community or for any game he decides to play in the future. He will still make tons of money and he already tweeted that his page has 100,000+ subscribers shortly after the announcement.

For Twitch, this is a huge blow to their Fortnite community. Yes, big name streamers such as Tfue, TimTheTatMan, DrDisRespect and Myth will still be on the service but each tends to dabble with different games from time to time, especially another competitor of Fortnite in Apex Legends.

This move also adds to what has been a declining viewership of Fortnite on Twitch over the course of the past couple of months and how Twitch decided to rebound from this shocking move will show a lot in how the platform decides to do many more things with Fortnite and Epic Games in the near future.

Ninja also released a follow-up video to his announcement on Twitter as well.

The excitement for the move is definitely there and to say the move shouldn’t excite the Fortnite community, his community or the communities of Mixer and Twitch is an understatement.

This gives plenty of streamers on Twitch ample opportunity to grow their channels and the same should be spoken for streamers who are already on Mixer, such as Ship who currently has 8 million plus views and 500,000 plus followers.

The move was definitely out of nowhere and only added to the excitement of Season 10 and post World Cup content for Fortnite. Ninja will likely see great success with Mixer and Twitch will also find new ways to keep Fortnite a top game on its platform.