Ninja is no longer number one, at least by one metric

Both Fortnite and Ninja have been unseated as top dogs on Twitch, as veteran Summit1G sees a sudden boost in popularity.

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People always used to complain that gaming has no celebrities, with very few industry figures that even committed gamers, let alone anyone else, will have heard of.

But that all changed once Twitch became big and there can’t be anyone that didn’t hear about Ninja last year, whether they wanted to or not.

Richard ‘Ninja’ Blevins started out playing Halo professionally but only hit it big when he switched to Fortnite. But it looks like both have now been usurped, at least in terms of the number of subscribers.




There’s not much in it but according to the website Twitch Stats, Summit1G currently has 42,933 subscribers and Ninja has 41,888.

The number of subscribers is not the same as the number of followers, where Ninja still dominates. He has over 13 million, while the next highest is Shroud with less than half that.

Summit1G is only the fifth most-followed streamer, with just under 3.5 million followers.

Jaryd ‘Summit1G’ Laza is an ex-Counter-Strike professional and has been around for a long time, becoming the top followed streamer on Twitch last spring.

His current popularity though is due to Microsoft exclusive Sea Of Thieves, which although it received a mixed reception on its release last year has been slowly adding more content ever since.

More importantly it’s a game specifically designed to work well on Twitch, with the open-ended, pirate-themed gameplay being a lot of fun to watch as long as the player themselves puts on a good show.

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