Fortnite Superstar Ninja Reaches Diamond Play Button on YouTube

Beginning as a professional Halo player, Tyler "Ninja Belvinshas been apart of the streaming world since Twitch was known as Justin.tv with his broadcasting of the popular first person shooter franchise. The talented player would move onto streaming H1Z1 in 2016 while competing as a professional player. However, in 2017 Ninja retired from competing in Halo and turned his attention to full time streaming with the popular battle royale title Player Unknowns Battlegrounds (PUBG) as his main focus, but would later move onto the latest entry in the battle royale genre in Epic Games' Fortnite Battle Royale. Providing viewers with an entertaining stream that consisted of extremely high level Fortnite gameplay that provided countless highlights that seemed to always go viral on social media, Ninja quickly grew into one of the most popular content creators in the world. 

This unprecedented rise in popularity has seen the Fortnite player break Twitch viewership records while playing with celebrities of the music and professional sports industries, become the most followed channel on Twitch and become the first streamer to 100,000 subscribers.

Ninja's success on Twitch has easily carried over to his YouTube channel where fans can find videos showing off the countless highlights that have come from his streaming adventures. Today, Ninja announced that he had reached another major milestone in his career on YouTube, as he had reached 10,000,000 subscribers and has earned the diamond play button, an award given to YouTubers by the organization for reaching the milestone. 

Woke up to 10,080,000 subscribers on YouTube. Thank you guys so much. I am not sure if a diamond play button has ever been reached so fast but regardless of the fact I am blessed. pic.twitter.com/XctLSAcATz

— Ninja (@Ninja) May 4, 2018

With such a massive rise in growth on his channel in combination with the sudden explosion in popularity that Fortnite has seen, as it has become the most talked about game in the industry, Ninja stated that he is unsure if anyone with the major YouTube achievement has ever reached it as quickly. 

Pulling in over 100,000 viewers on average on his Twitch stream and millions of views on each of his YouTube videos, there seems to be no limit to how high Ninja can reach in his continued rise as one of the most popular Fortnite content creators in the world. 

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