Ninja is alive and well (Picture: Getty)

It may be a fictional disease, but it has proved highly contagious across the internet in recent days with thousands now talking about ‘Ligma’.

The obvious question arises, ‘what is Ligma?’ and that is the whole point of the pretty questionable joke, because the answer is meant to be funny.

This all came about from someone on Instagram posting a fake picture that suggested the renowned gamer Ninja was dead.

The post included the caption ‘let’s make fake news’ so it was clearly a joke and it got very silly, very quickly.


Ligma has not killed anyone (Picture: Getty Images)

Tyler ‘Ninja’ Belvins’ fictional death was blamed on the equally fictional disease ‘Ligma’ by someone else on Instagram and this rumour became pretty popular.



When those unaware of the joke asked what ‘Ligma’ is, the witty protagonist can reply, ‘ligma balls’.

Then we all have a big old laugh and no one is actually dead or infected with a deadly new disease.

Here is an example of the first-class gag in action on Twitter…

It first appeared that Ninja wasn’t a fan of the joke as he asked Twitch moderators to ban users from commenting the word ‘Ligma’ in chat.

However, he seems to have come round to it, as he himself tweeted it at YouTube star PewDiePie and the two internet celebs had a lovely old time and lolled all the way home.

Ligma — Ninja (@Ninja) July 22, 2018

Not only is Ligma nothing to fear, but it can do plenty for the health of your internet following.

Internet comedian SupremePatty posted this video of his own ‘Ligma’ diagnosis and at the time of writing it has been viewed over 3.1m times.

Get well soon Patty.

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