Ninja Presented With Diamond YouTube Play Button

The former Halo pro made the switch to full time streaming last year, mostly playing games such as H1Z1 and PUBG to a reasonable audience sitting in the four to five figure range. Making the switch to Fortnite was the catalyst that changed everything for Ninja, as the rise in popularity for the game coincided with his own personal rise to glory.

Sitting at the forefront of the popularity wave that continues to surge to this day, Ninja was able to capitalize on his personal skill at the game, as well as his decision to create shorter clips and highlights of his streaming content to help grow his YouTube channel as well. In early May of this year, Ninja surpassed the 10 Million subscriber milestone on YouTube, rewarded for his efforts at E3 this year as he was presented with a Diamond Play Button by YouTube’s head of gaming, Ryan ‘Fwiz’ Wyatt.

A massive congrats to @Ninja on his 10M diamond play button! Ninja grew his channel from 1M to 10M subscribers faster than any other non-music channel in the history of YouTube, and he did it in under a 100 days. INSANE! Congrats!! Special appearance by @marshmellomusic!! pic.twitter.com/hgmUooqUj0

— Ryan Wyatt (@Fwiz) June 11, 2018

As explained in the tweet, Ninja’s rise to 10 Million subs was not only impressive news on its own, but also broke records as it became one of the quickest growing channels out there. Ninja managed to grow his channel from 1 Million subs to 10 Million in under 100 days, doing so faster than any other non-music channel in YouTube history.

Ninja will be competing in the Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am later on today, where he is teaming up with EDM DJ, Marshmello. For more on that event and how you can check it out, we’ve got a handy guide right here.