Asmongold Reacts to "Why Ninja's Career DIED" | by SunnyV2

i like ninja i remember ninja would be such a salty [ __ ] whenever he'd lose sometimes in pub g and i [ __ ] loved it back in april 2018 when ninja was gaining 200 million views per month on youtube setting world records for drake over on twitch and earning five minutes like for context like my my youtube channel gets like uh 40 to 50 million views a month so so you take that and you're talking about that much more that's like five times as much million dollars a month from his creator code i think the most i've ever made in a month off of the creator code was like five mil failure probably felt like an impossibility however that's some that's some [ __ ] crazy [ __ ] five million dollars just from the creator code right that's just from fortnite that's not even talking about youtube that's not talking about sponsors twitch subs anything like that that's insane the past three and a half years have been somewhat of a sobering reality check for the former king of fortnite forcing him to come to terms with the fact that at a certain point in his journey whether he knew it or not something went horribly wrong his youtube viewership has dropped by a mind-blowing 97 to between four and six million views per month his twitch viewership has dropped by an almost equally severe 92 percent from 125 000 average concurrent viewers to approximately 10 000 all while his various social it's like back but the thing is with that is like you never gonna hold on to that level of fame like with ninja ninja was so [ __ ] popular that it was just it was insane like it was absolutely [ __ ] insane didn't we watch this wait did i watch this i don't think i did 2001 december oh there's no shot i watch this so here's the thing is like you're not going to you you you get up to highs and then like especially back then like for example like nobody was getting 125 000 viewers back then yeah nobody was getting 125 000 viewers back then like that did not happen like i remember back then i chose one yeah yeah yeah it just doesn't happen now obviously like people have grown as the website has grown and like that's that was a lot like 20k viewers back then was like 50 or 40k viewers now like that was a lot of [ __ ] viewers like 40 like the top of twitch was like 30 000 viewers and like that was it very rarely did things ever go above that and um like i remember i had a few streams where i just completely popped off and it was like insane how much more it was but yeah breaking 10k was huge so like yeah i remember this like but ninja was like so popular like ninja whenever you really put it into perspective ninja like had such a huge popularity spike with fortnite it was ridiculous like he was on like you know he was like interacting with like you know celebrities constantly he was making like five million dollars a month on the creator code it was insane he was the biggest like ninja even now is the most famous gamer by a mile like if you don't consider like pewdiepie or mr beast you just look at the numbers and like how many followers ninja has and everything and like the like the recognizability right like you can say like there's a lot of people there's like uh you know like i buy faker um xqc absolutely these guys are really really popular but i'm talking about mainstream knowledge i think if you went to like a target and you showed a picture of ninja to a thousand people everybody in that in that random building more people would recognize ninja than any of those other people on the list that's the truth that's what i think like because like you guys i feel like a lot of people might not remember how popular he was it was insane all media follow accounts such as instagram have been in complete and utter freefall perhaps a severe unprecedented fall was the only inevitable outcome after such a fast unbelievable rise to fame in the first place only six months prior to gaining 200 million views per month ninja was basically a nobody he had appeared on the television show family feud what do you do i'm a professional video game player i travel across the country and compete playing video games and again a small internet following of around a hundred thousand youtube subscribers as a professional halo player dating all the way back to 2009 [Music] however battle royale seemed to be the genre that ninja had been born to play he began to mess around with h1z1 all the way back in 2015. halo was horrible no one really on twitch watches it um and then i switched over to h1z1 yeah halo is [ __ ] boring to watch that's why it's because the developers refuse to make a br for it for some reason that nobody understands one and that gave me a huge viewer boost and by early 2017 only two years later ninja had set the world record for the most kills ever in a single h1z1 match while also becoming ranked number one for north american h1z1 players resulting in ninja was actually like really [ __ ] good a lot of people might not realize this but like back in the day like ninja and probably even now like ninja was actually a really really really good player and i think that whenever you see a lot of people that are very popular with these things a lot of them there is like a certain degree of like actual like professional level skill involved yeah he was legitimate of success he was listening at my prime in asian z1 when i was going for like kill records and getting 30k games and stuff like that um i was averaging like 10 000 viewers a day ninja would display a similar level of skill after switching to pub g often finishing games with upwards of 20 kills and having built a strong foundation with battle royale experience a seamless training another thing that was really really big here was this was whenever doctor disrespect had the um uh had the uh the the thing happened right uh what we're like you know he's cheating on his wife and everything so like this is the exact same time so like right back then dr disrespect was like the he was like the big he was the big dick right like everybody watched doc every [ __ ] day for pub g he was the most popular pub g streamer by a [ __ ] mile and so what happened is that after uh after doc just completely disappeared a lot of people uh not not yeah i guess um i i guess like yeah to an extent shroud was there too like yeah you're right but like especially as soon as doc left there was a big vacuum with like a lot of viewers and uh shroud was more popular um shroud more popular that it went back and forth you're right it was actually like yeah it might have been shroud it might have been docked i think it depended on today but either way they were both extremely popular so like as soon as doc uh stopped uh stop streaming for a while i remember watching ninja stream in pub g and people calling him the doctor disrespect waiting room and him saying like i don't really care if people call me that i'm just glad they're watching so like that actually really helped ninja out a lot whenever doc stopped making content because a lot of his viewers went to find somebody else and it's like also ninja acted like a clown like doctor disrespected shroud just [ __ ] just popping caps and asses like he's just he's like yeah okay well um okay your dad your dad your dad your dad your dad oh he won another game nice all right justin you want to queue again all right cool another victory for me and that was it right like he was very relaxed and so like but ninja was standing up screaming at the mic acting like a [ __ ] animal so guess what a lot of people that watched doctor disrespect watched the next best thing which was another guy that acted like a clown that's what it is relax more like boring no i don't think it was boring at all i watched shroud every day [ __ ] you saying that's boring [ __ ] you learn some respect addition into fortnite was almost guaranteed first impression of the game it's fun when considering the previous information about his skill as a professional h1z1 pubg player it should come as no surprise that ninja was a natural fortnight from the very first week he dropped his first 20 kill game only 12 days after the game's release 20 minutes in his first twenties it's like look at that like bro look at this goofball [ __ ] look at this baby and his first 25 what's the [ __ ] what the [ __ ] is that [ __ ] dude just goofing and clowning and flailing around right because everyone sucks back then that's right so the big reason why ninja was so popular in pub g or not pub g in fortnite is because ninja like he's the learning curve for him was way faster like ninja was getting to like level five whenever everybody else was on like level one or two or maybe three game only three days after that the audience didn't flock to his channel on the very first day however the fact that fortnite had a new player basement that ninja had exposure to a new audience this new i think also like whenever the game was getting way more popular with a lot of people uh that's also whenever it happened first mover advantage big also is talent i think what really put ninja on the map in my opinion was the big kill games is because like a lot of people like in general with br's brs are boring to watch if the person who you're watching sucks at the game because they're constantly it's like you know what they used to call me whenever i played uh played warzone they used to call the game john mccain simulator because i spent the whole time in a [ __ ] gulag it's like nobody wants people don't want to watch that [ __ ] they want to watch you come back over and over and over right they want to they want to watch some [ __ ] happen yeah that's what it is so liked him as he carried over a genuine almost toxic personality that he developed during the h1z1 on pubg days when it only had a small following the fact that he had this small following meant he really had nothing to lose with regards to how he acted on camera he could be toxic kind annoyed happy whatever it didn't matter because it always came off as authentic and genuine in addition to this his small audience meant he wasn't inundated with sponsorships business opportunities and other extracurricular activities chewing up his time it was just raw unfiltered gaming all day every day trying to become as skilled as possible and also like he was live all the time like that was another really big factor is that like ninja was live like 15 hours a day like he was on adderall [ __ ] popping off grinding like [ __ ] crazy and like that's the thing is like whenever i feel like my stream is like really popping off and like i want to be live like that's the same with never like lost ark right i was doing 10 hour days every every day basically i still kind of am right even though now we're pretty much just chilling yeah it's like two streams per day like shroud back in the c9 days yeah yeah basically yeah xqc streams all the [ __ ] time right consistency is a big [ __ ] thing because like a lot of people this is what happens right as they get very popular then they get complacent and they stop streaming as much uh in my opinion i think that people want to have a routine and that's why i always like it is so it is so hard for me to wake up early but i do it almost well i don't see my mondays right um but like i i i wake up early at 8 a.m every single day because that is what i do and that's it because the consistency is what matters and that's what the big difference is the streamers who have defined schedules yeah well other people like i would stream more but like i know what will happen if i like it because people say oh just go live at 11 30. okay all right that's fine it's good all right yeah i did that and then oh let's just go live at 12 30. and then meanwhile 12 30 turns into 12 30 p.m you know or am right or yeah it's 11 30 a.m or p.m like i have a rotating schedule which is what i do so i i will never have a normal schedule that's it uh that logic conflicts with the statements you made about nobody caring if you take a long break oh yeah no you're right you're you're absolutely right but it's not the thing is that these two things do not exist like purely independently of each other right and like in order to build up hype and things like that what you have to understand is that like before that long break it's like almost like you become consistent and then inconsistent it's better to go all in and then go all out then go half dick and then half dick it's better to go all in grind like [ __ ] crazy be as intense as you possibly can put as much work into it as possible and then cold turkey that [ __ ] and then come back whenever you're ready to put that same energy in that is my like that's what i've learned that's what i've seen works and i think that's the best way to do it that's what i do at least contradicts so by making two objectively true statements yeah there's a lot of people that they um they'll wait for me to say something that they don't really understand and then they'll tell me that it's different oh but you contradicted something you said earlier yes um there are a lot of things that are that are contradictory that are simultaneously true uh life is a matter of degrees it's not a matter of binary experiences it's not like oh well uh you know if this is true then that's not true that's not the way the world works possible to provide the best content possible with this approach growth was inevitable ninja began to ride the tsunami-sized fortnight wave as each and every gamer was looking for a new pro player to watch one million views turn into seven million views the next month then 35 million views by january 2018 well i remember like ninja one time he tweeted out there was like a picture of like him getting more interactions on twitter than ronaldo like that was like he was like the most popular athlete on twitter like athlete meme right whatever right but like still like that was ridiculous man it's like i remember the day that he hit 100 000 viewers like i didn't even know that was possible like i had never seen somebody hit a hundred thousand viewers before on twitch one month later at around the same point in time approximately three months after the game's release ninja had become what many considered to be the best all-round player and was certainly one of the first people that came to mind when thinking about pro fortnite players i think that there were a lot of people that were like okay they didn't really know ninja like ninja might not have been the best because there were probably other people that were but tfu was yeah i thought tifu well tifu came later and then there's a question like is tifu better than ninja right whatever but like what i'm saying is like ninja was like the best person who was really well known which his twitch followers also exploded exponentially growing from 500 000 to 3 million over the course of only four months placing him in the position of the most followed twitch streamer and the first streamer ever to reach three million followers this would help him to then break the world record for the most concurrent viewers on a twitch stream ever after he and drake's stream to 628 i remember watching which would then be broken again after ninja hosted an amateur professional tournament to over 680 000 people only one month after that ninja basically had a fortnight viewership monopoly for the first six months of the game he was better than everyone else more dedicated to streaming than everyone else had an excellent attitude and was a generally likable person everyone could agree that at the time his 125 000 average twitch viewers per stream and 200 million monthly views on youtube were 110 deserved however oh absolutely they were i mean he was like with the best player he was screaming constantly making content all the time i mean there's no question yeah there's no [ __ ] question nobody did it better it's just that simple he's toxic as [ __ ] well yeah i mean like i like the toxic ninja i thought that was funny tv played sometimes ninjas just nobody's watching a stream tifu popped off after so like this is what happened with tifu is that tifu was like growing because like so tifu and cloak uh got signed by faze and then after they got signed by phase then uh tifu got suspended and uh he got suspended on twitch because he said to kill somebody who was the short abbreviation of a raccoon and twitch interpreted this as racist even though tfu said it's just a term that he referred to uh different players skins as uh you know like a skin in fortnite by the way and so it was like okay like it's hard to really know what happened and it's like okay whatever right but then as soon as that happened the internet in general took tifu's side on this right yeah they in general took tifu's side on this and then his comeback stream was popular and then he just kept popping off more and more and more the landscape is shifting underneath ninja's fate other players streamers and youtubers were beginning to match his skill level hey oh there it is they're [ __ ] see i told you guys look at that in april 2018 ninja's peak month on both twitch and youtube we saw players like t few uploading 36 kill solo squad matches high distortion was dropping a 30 bomb every second day and generally speaking the skill gap that had helped ninja to stand out in the beginning had well and surely begun to close by mid-2018 as other players were becoming better at the game there was now significantly more competition for ninja's channel on twitch and in the days of pubg he explained that more competition hurt his overall viewership dr disrespect shroud summit tim the tatman i have to compete with all these people to just take away of a huge pool of people from uh like when i you know when they're not on i'm up to like twelve thirteen fourteen k something in addition to increasing twitch that's just the way twitch viewership works there's not a lot of people on twitch and twitch viewership also is like uh uh what's the word for it it's like zero sum because like on youtube for example you go you watch one video than the next video but on twitch if you're watching one person you're probably not watching two streams at the same time and so that yeah it's not fickle it's just that's the way it is and twitch is a small audience so it's like you've got everybody competing for the same like one or two million viewers competition from individuals like t few it seemed as though ninja began to invest less energy into what blew him up in the first place being a professional gamer and rather focus more energy on being a branded celebrity that's why he got worse at the game is because you're talking about thinking about doing all these [ __ ] interviews and [ __ ] you're gonna be busy you're not like whenever you're doing these interviews flying around the country talking to celebrities you're not practicing and grinding the game and so that that's also another big reason why ninja uh the the difference like came in because like you remember tifu tifu never did any of this [ __ ] really tifu just played the [ __ ] game like the main difference that tifu did from like back in the day to like uh you know like whenever he first came out and then is he started streaming without a shirt on sometimes like that was about that that was like the biggest i was like oh no now he's not wearing a shirt that was it get involved in sponsorship deals with big companies i started flying around the country doing meetings and interviews the last six months flying everywhere and doing all these interviews and you know meetings and meetings well he'd upgrade his streaming room to a super expensive top-tier ninja dojo embroidered ninja chair uh this is where i'm gonna be controlling all the uh professional cameras in the room wrangle one camera angle two and camera angle three for the doggy ball the room looked fantastic there's no doubt about it but it felt very commercial and it lacked the relatability people people want to have the relatability in the commercial aspect that's what it is like it's just like yeah they don't give a [ __ ] about like oh wow this is some cool event if people cared about commercial events they'd be sitting on television watching the view like they don't give a [ __ ] about that they want they want real [ __ ] that the thing is a lot of people watch streams because they're looking for they're looking for content that is relatable like relatability is like way more important on twitch than it is on youtube for example so like that's why having things that are it's like you even have like guys like there are guys that like they feel more disconnected from you if you improve your life like if you start dating a girl like i've had this happen a lot of my viewers were pissed they were like well you know he's like he's different now it's not the same right it's crazy but it's true like it actually is true in authenticity that it helped him to grow in the beginning now perhaps ninja felt as though he needed to take this path of public appearances and material stream improvements in order to continue the growth of his brand but other streamers like tfew were certainly proving this to be the opposite turner was just this relatable dude living with his dad and brother at their messy suburban house in florida he'd win some yeah and then like every once in a while he opened it so [ __ ] would come through the window jump out the window reveal his backyard full of junk and continue on playing now obviously it'd be ridiculous to claim that you or any other creator's rise was directly responsible for ninja's fall but it did show that there were other players and streamers who just seemed more focused relatable or watchable ninja's viewers also it wasn't really just that it was that people were watching fortnite fortnite was a competitive game so whenever people are watching fortnite they want to watch somebody who's good at the [ __ ] game so if you're not the best player you're not getting a lot of views you see what i mean so like there are like certain people are popular because they're popular but a lot of ninjas popularity came from being very good at the game if you're not good at the game people aren't going to watch you began to dive pretty rapidly in the six months after his peak and in the process it would also come to the surface that ninja's extreme level of fame had brought about a further shift in his attitude and public image as mentioned earlier when ninja was a comparatively smaller streamer he really had nothing to lose when it came to being his authentic unfiltered that's however after blowing up he made the conscious effort to shift his personality into what he thought the audience wanted as opposed to just being his natural self specifically for example becoming family friendly now he's also understandable as to why you should do this obviously he also stopped using profanity on his stream like i'm pretty sure he did that is he didn't use profanity on stream because like he had a lot of kids watching and he thought that like basically so here's what happens uh if a kid hears profanity like he hears the same like [ __ ] three times it's like beetlejuice right you hear it three times and then the kid drops out of school and starts smoking weed a lot of people might not know this because you know we have kids watching but yeah it's like beetlejuice say say [ __ ] three times kids start smoking weed drops out of school it's too bad the fastest route to success is going to be deliver to the audience exactly what they want however when it comes to changing your own personality for the audience you're getting into risky territory because you're starting to lose the authenticity that people followed you for in the beginning and an authentic personality like what ninja had in the beginning is not only an advantage it's a requirement it's the ability to say here's what i think if you don't like it i don't care if you then hate me so be it go watch someone else i'll still be here streaming to those who enjoy what i do ninja had become the exact opposite of this he'd given the audience complete and utter control of what he could and couldn't post literally watch this clip where he doesn't even want to shout out his creator code or make a post on twitter as he didn't want to receive backlash from his audience i don't promote my creator very much because i just get flamed by everybody i can't tweet well this is what happened right is that this is one thing that happens to content creators is like you go back you look at remember whenever we watch that video of the island boys about how they were constantly like responding to people that don't like them the best way that you can respond to people that don't like you in my opinion is to not only say [ __ ] you but say [ __ ] you and do whatever they don't like you doing even more like you ignore them yeah you it's not only that like you you do it even more right it's like the best revenge my mom always told me the best revenge is living well i said [ __ ] that the best revenge is [ __ ] somebody up right but like she never she never got with that but like it actually is true though like she she's she was right i'm just an [ __ ] uh is that like if you go and you uh like if to make somebody nobody wants to feel like they are insignificant and i think that's what happens whenever you say stuff like that right whenever you do whatever right mom was right no she was right uh is that like now one thing that really pisses people off is like people will get mad at me and they'll see like oh wow asman's doing this or that and i'm still successful i'm still chilling i'm still winning every [ __ ] day i'm winning and it doesn't matter what you say it doesn't matter what you do because if you're complaining about me you don't [ __ ] matter and that's it and the thing is everybody says you know what like that's good so like the moment that you stop doing that the moment that you lose that confidence and i think that really it's internal confidence that like because like a certain point you believe what they're saying and that's why you feel like you have to address it you see what i'm saying and so like whenever you feel like you're just you like you know what you're doing you're confident in yourself that's what really people want to see 900 things i wanted to eat because like people would just they just meme it they make it into a meme selfies making them a meme like why i just post clips now all ninja was doing was showing everyone how spineless he'd become no wonder people started to hate him yet ninja seemed to well people did hate ninja and i think that people hated ninja uh for in my opinion a stupid reason they hated ninja because he acted goofy and did funny stuff on stream i don't think that's bad at all i think that's funny it's entertaining what the [ __ ] is wrong with that like what's wrong with that like you're just goofing and flailing and having fun man yeah people hated me yeah the thing is like yeah it makes makes you popular quicker than being liked ninja was very well liked whenever he first started becoming popular yeah he sold out to nine-year-olds people hated him because he was popular as well yeah i think that a lot of people wanted to like try to take you down a peg you know like it's that attitude that a lot of people have crabs in a bucket type thing and so yeah you definitely have that too really oblivious to the fact that it was because he had completely abandoned his authentic personality in exchange for his family friendly pretending to be nice garbage that everyone could tell was completely fake yeah at some point somehow it became a cool thing to like dislike me everyone everyone say anything like it became like the thing to pick on me that's the thing is like i always felt bad for ninja in a way because like people would like meme on him and like say bad [ __ ] about him et cetera and it's like it felt like you know like people felt people felt like they could do that they could say that to him because he was like so much more popular he deserved it why do you really think he deserved it though like i mean why because like he but but like whenever you really break it down like why did ninja really deserve it did he deserve it because like he because because he didn't want to use profanity on his stream like what who deserves that like why like that's just weird like what like sold his soul who doesn't sell their soul for their career who doesn't do that like everybody does that like it's just it's weird it's like everybody yeah it's just i think people is it's like people like there's there's no justification for it no not none whatsoever man been [ __ ] on for that like that's crazy people don't have empathy for millionaires that's because they have jealousy instead that's what it is i think there's a lot of people that that's that's what i think a lot of it is and i told you all about this before right whenever i said streamers should never talk about how they feel and like their problems with their audience you know like you could talk about something that it's like a big issue that's happened to you before but like just in general um people will not empathize with you because you have like most people that are watching your stream most people that are watching you in general these are people between the ages of 15 and 30 and especially 15 and 25 and if you are between the ages and 15 of 15 and 25 i can almost guarantee you that the biggest problem in your life is money that is probably it that was my biggest problem that was all of my friends biggest problems and everybody else doesn't like like let's say you're 42 years old maybe you're in a position you're there's a good chance you're in a better position than you were whenever you were 25 right and so because of that those people can't empathize with somebody who has the one thing that that person feels would solve their life does that make sense so like whenever you tell people like oh i'm sad i'm depressed you know like i'm not doing my stream's not doing as well and it's like suddenly like well what do you mean your stream's not doing this well like you made like you know ten thousand dollars last month let's say this is this is a small streamer comparatively to ninja right let's say make ten thousand dollars in a month a lot of people would be lucky to make that in six months especially back then right and there are like let's say three months to make it a little bit more realistic right and so that's the kind of stuff that happens and like you your audience begins to resent you because they feel like you don't appreciate what you have so my best advice to any content creator at all never tell straight never tell people how you really feel about certain things like that because not only will they not understand but they will actively resent you for being in a position that they envy and not appreciating it in a way that they believe that they would appreciate it if they were in that situation just don't [ __ ] do it it's a it's a bad idea same thing with athletes of course they do because it's the same it's it's money because it's money right money exacerbated ziggo though he talked about how much money he had for no reason of course of course yeah he's happy he's got a lot of money plenty of people do that yeah yeah and like that's the thing that that's that's my point though right is that people are doing it because they want to bring his ego down they feel like this person's ego is too big and so they have some justification in their mind wow this guy's got a really big ego it's now it's acceptable for me to like pull this ego down because it doesn't align with my world view you see what i mean like somebody's ego doesn't matter it's irrelevant yeah it's an ego check yeah but like why do you need to do an ego check you know what i think it's you need to do i i think that people that need to do ego checks are the ones that are doing the ego checks these are people like because an actual person that doesn't have an ego doesn't care about it i don't care if ninja's bragging about how much money he has this doesn't matter to me because i'm happy with my own life and i'm not worried about what he's doing it's just it comes from a place of insecurity and it comes from a place of like this like it's like you know main protagonist syndrome you see what i'm saying oh shamers have a high ego man stops defending him okay so then what so all streamers have a high ego so okay okay that makes sense yeah that that makes uh that makes a lot of sense absolutely but like why is having a hot like having a high ego is not a justification to try to bring somebody down and the idea that you do that i think is because you are the one who is uh who is insecure that's what i'm really trying to get at and uh is wrong people you don't want people to be successful it's they just yeah that's all there is to it and i i actually think that a lot of these things are not as complement as complicated as people might think imagine if you sold out with pg would you still have so many fans or more haters there would be there are people that already said that i've sold out and gone pg because i i don't say um game rewards on stream because i'll get banned like there's always going to be people that think this yeah so i yeah having a high ego uh justifies their punishment and so those uh that envia can't admit it so they hate streamers yes yeah they're looking for justifications he wasn't strong enough to fight back with haters unless he deserves what happens with them um i don't really think like deserve like nobody this is my opinion nobody deserves anything in life there's no causality this isn't berserk this isn't there's no god out there it's trying to determine like you deserve anything it's oh it deserves this you deserve this you deserve anything shut up i hate that i deserve this no you don't you deserve anything you only deserve what you have you deserve what you can protect what you can own what you can keep complaining now felt as though it was coming from a position of entitlement like he was owed respectfully oh bro bro like i bet y'all [ __ ] hate this because i keep pausing but this stream sniping thing i literally made a joke about this [ __ ] yesterday i made joke about the [ __ ] yesterday like he immediately reported somebody for stream sniping immediately that [ __ ] was [ __ ] funny man i love that like i was the best oops oh yeah yeah there it is frame sniping and this was the first time by the way so the only other time this has happened is whenever oh bro do y'all remember grimms uh in pub g and they added a horn to the cars and people kept driving around school honking the [ __ ] horn and grimms was going ballistic it was so funny and everybody [ __ ] hated him for it they absolutely [ __ ] hated him for it and um it was just so so dumb and it was sniping him now can i find out what was it's like stream sniping is [ __ ] [ __ ] behavior right whether you agree that somebody should get in trouble for it or not i think we can all agree it's [ __ ] [ __ ] behavior like that's little brother syndrome on on little brother player two playing xbox throwing a grenade where you're standing yeah it's definitely [ __ ] [ __ ] syndrome owed respect from his audience and that it was unfair that he had received so much hate but criticism from the audience is the price of admission when you decide to become a streamer and the fact that he continued to complain about being hated just meant he became more and more hated people exactly the best way the best way to deal with hate is to say [ __ ] you i'm gonna do it even more [ __ ] you i'm gonna do it even more uh uh nope looked for specific things to call him out on because they knew they'd get a reaction going back to the example of t few you could tell that he didn't even care about the criticism and therefore he received substantially less criticism in the first place now tfu wasn't perfect either he always had something to complain about within fortnite but it wasn't that's why i liked watching him that [ __ ] was [ __ ] funny same cry baby way acting as if the whole world was always against him for some reason however for ninja the problem it's like ninja would feel like the world is against him like it makes sense because like he's the most popular streamer at this point and like everybody's talking about him trying to like because this is just what happens right it's the same thing again i said with the island boys right is that a lot of people go out of their way to like minimize your accomplishments and say like oh what you did doesn't matter as much because of this or that or whatever uh that's the kind of stuff that always [ __ ] happens and it's like yeah it's always that people say this [ __ ] to me they say this [ __ ] to like every popular streamer especially if it's a girl like girls get it way worse and um the fact is that a lot of these things that happen like of course it gets in your head man of course it [ __ ] gets in your head wasn't only increasing competition from better or equally skilled players with more likable personalities the amount of people watching fortnite was also beginning to decline in the year after ninja had hit his peak twitch's average daily fortnite viewership dropped by 30 to 40 percent fortnite's google trend graph followed a similar pattern people were searching for the game less and less every single month videos discussing the potential death of fortnite were going viral and hating the game for whatever reason became the trendy thing to do with ninja's popularity being directly tied to fortnite's popularity if the game were to die ninja was well i remember i watched this with izzy i watched this with izzy i was there as new years bro and like this is the thing right is even ninja memes about this about the pond pond right even ninja memes about it and like that's [ __ ] funny like i feel like ninja has actually like let me finish the video right but like i feel like ninja has actually uh like by embracing it i think it's funnier i'm not seeing enough movement come on guys this is without a doubt the reason as to why ninja began to play other games on stream league of legends apex legends valerian streaming hundreds of hours on each under the assumption that one of them might be the next big game now would it be unfair to say that this was a stupid idea obviously streamers always have to be on the lookout for what might be the next big game opportunity so ninja dedicated a high percentage of his limited stream time and many youtube uploads to balor and assuming he'd be at the front of the pack when the fortnite audience decided to migrate over but the migration never really happened and in the process those who wanted to continue watching fortnite got themselves it's because valrant's just not as big of a game as as fortnite like fortnite was like everybody like my dad knows what fortnite is he doesn't know what valrand is it's literally that simple yeah it's like the fortnite splash was way too big other streamers were providing that fortnite content such as cipher pk it also didn't help that throughout this process ninja wasn't even streaming on the most viewed platform twitch and had instead signed an exclusivity deal with mixer worth an estimated 50 million dollars now i always thought this was a good idea i i thought ninja made the right call going to mixer like his stream was already declining like it's like basically he got he got a golden parachute away that like it's like you you you secure the bag and like his popularity was declining and they bought him on like the downturn and mixer obviously didn't get their money's worth for it but it doesn't matter because they still like ninja ninja popped off ninja did great and it's so hard to comment on whether this was a good decision made by ninja because we don't really know what would have happened if ninja simply stayed on twitch plus the money they paid him was absolutely insane however the amount that ninja ninja's views were still declining and like what happens is like whenever you start declining in views you start declining in views because people feel like it's a dying stream and so there's like an increased amount of negativity and people that are unhappy with the stream content for whatever reason they have a uh justification for uh like being right so that's what happens same with dying games yeah it's same with dying games it's just the way uh that's the way twitch works hate him was representative of something it was saying this he is a short-term cash injection because we both know that over the long run your career is going to take a bit of a dip if you move to mixer and adip his career certainly took in the video letting everyone know he was moving to mixer ninja came out with the same old inauthentic crap stating yes what are you most excited for about this change you know i feel like this is a really good chance to get back in touch with my roots and really remember why i fell in love with streaming in the first place bro everyone knows the only thing that went through your head when you were offered this deal was is the money worth the damage that it will do to my reputation it's in general so i thought that honestly like you know who my favorite and you know what my favorite announcement was for like going over to youtube dr lupo dr lupo was like yeah so uh youtube's gonna give me a bunch of money and i've got a family and a wife and a kid and so i'm gonna go over to youtube so uh you know like they're going to be good and everyone's like ah it sounds great hey man yo congratulations that's awesome yeah that's what it was tim's is really good yeah tim's was good too for sure but like especially i thought the loophole was funny because he just said it you want to try and convince your audience that you want to move to mixer because you want to get back in touch with your streaming roots you assume that your audience is so dumb that they won't be able to tell when you're lying through your teeth then you sit back and wonder why they hate you it's because you have a propensity towards being a fake piece of [ __ ] perhaps not everyone's gonna resent you or they just hadn't figured it out yet as 12 months after signing the contract ninja was still averaging 8 500 concurrent viewers per stream over on mixer however this was substantially less than the 40 000 average viewers he was receiving on twitch before making the move mixer then shut down in july 2020 ninja returned to twitch and he was back to getting 40 000 views per stream well only briefly only two months later his viewership had declined back down to 10 000 average concurrent viewers similar to the amount he'd been receiving over on mixer on youtube what's the thing with ninja is that even in five years people will remember and know who ninja is it's like yeah the content now might not be on the same level as it was definitely [ __ ] true but the fact is like people are always going to remember who ninja is and it's like he's never going to be like totally [ __ ] irrelevant unless he quits it's like there's a lot of times like ninja's not putting in the effort like he'd probably tell you this right he's not putting the effort that he put in on the fortnight boom he's not playing 14 hours a day he's streaming he's doing what he wants to do and then after that he does something else mike and i think that's that is a healthy way of doing things he had his he had his huge popularity spike he he popped off and then after that he moved on he did something else and now he's just he's just enjoying himself yeah he's just enjoying himself and isn't that a good thing similar decline was well underway as lockdowns around the globe were coming to an end ninja's viewership dropped from 40 million a month to 25 million a month and 15 million a month at which point it was becoming blatantly obvious that there was a serious lack of innovation and effort being put into the youtube videos most of his titles and thumbnails look like they hadn't improved since 2018 and nothing solidified this more than a hilarious tweet made about one of these thumbnails on his channel with over 20 million subscribers ninja would post a video using this thumbnail which will be shared on twitch by not luke stating someone tell ninja to fix his designer please this is hard to watch and would receive reply such as i still can't believe that's actually the thumbnail i could do better on pixar on my phone and how is it possible to be this bad i feel like he must have done it himself for some reason ninja then changed the thumbnail to a thumbnail he had already used for an older video that's ended up changing it which to be fair does look a lot better until you realize it's just a re-used thumbnail the whole thing just showed that he just wasn't putting in the effort anymore not even i think that's just his editors i bet ninja doesn't even do the thumbnails in the first place like we've had l thumbnails too like that's what happens like who cares um so okay who cares about thumbnails thumbnails are so important if they weren't important why do you think everybody makes the same kind of thumbnails because there are thumbnails that get people to click on the video more often that's what it is like that that's it it's like i i know like yes you have to have cleavage a circle with a red arrow pointing to the circle and like there are certain really really really good thumbnails and really really bad thumbnails and bad thumbnails generally attract less viewers you see what i'm saying like yeah it's like oh it doesn't matter yes it does absolutely it does matter not as important to the viewers also clickbaity titles and thumbnails are annoying no see this is this is something that you should never listen to never listen to what the viewers say they want whenever people are clicking on videos that have better thumbnails that means the thumbnails matter not the three people that say the chat oh i just care about the content that's great i'm happy that you're here but that's not the [ __ ] majority that's not what people think listen to what they do not what they say that's my advice doing the bare basics like making his own thing or analyzing how other successful fortnite youtubers were titling their videos people will blame ninja's downfall on nothing but fortnite dying but when looking at someone like cipher pk who is titling his videos correctly and making extremely meta thumbnails he's only been and like you look at the thumbnails right look at the cipher thumbnails it's very easy you know one of the big reasons why cipher pk's thumbnails are so good it's because you can see what they are on your [ __ ] phone you can look and scroll down on youtube and you can see what's happening on the screen and that's a big factor and like let's see here a girl's ass and it's just like him his face he's excited and there's something happening right there that's exactly the new icy grappler is insane look at that oh my god right and you immediately know what's going on yeah face is really really important man absolutely it's accessible and it's easy to understand same five expressions why would you make another expression if the ones that you're already making are working there is a success formula and people use a success formula doesn't that make sense getting more and more popular over the same period of time over the last 12 months ninja's lack of innovation has resulted in a drop from 15 million views a month to between four and six million views a month his youtube channel has become an anti-user-friendly cluttered mess consisting of a bunch of random shorts and unrelated videos which when compared to someone like cipher pk who i consider to be doing things correctly it's really no surprise that cypher is gaining five to ten times it's also cipher is putting out way more content like he's also just making way more content he's got a shorts channel he's got a youtube channel he's streaming regularly like we actually went over because like we did something like over at like his building like he actually rented out a whole space here in austin as like an office like he's actually like who well what do you mean who he's got five million subscribers who you who what are you hooing him for like what do you think not you're not cool because you're hooing somebody who's very popular and something that you don't know about oh wow that's so so cool i don't know who somebody is shut up like it's just that kind of stuff is this and yeah who are you exactly never heard of him yeah if you don't play fortnite this guy is like one of the biggest fortnite content creators absolutely yeah he is more views despite having only one fifth of the subscribers ninja knows his career is over no creator who values and respects their future as an internet personality would ever do something like his recent multi-faceted rage shadow legend sponsorship this is the move of someone who knows that they're completely and utterly finished you'd never see someone like seifer p gay or nick merks or even tfu out here doing this kind of in-depth unrelated totally different game brand deal because they know the degree to which it will affect their reputation and future as a content i actually don't think like i i think that if everybody knows like this is kind of like where streaming is at now is like a lot of people would feel that way but there'd also be a lot of people that don't like they would just think it's funny or meme it and i think that's what happens with a lot of other content creators like a good parallel to this that i could use as an example is like whenever people are using raid shadow legends ads in uh like youtube videos everybody watches that they think it's funny right it's not that big of a deal and they got paid yeah it's like people get paid money and they do stuff that's just the way things work and it's like i think that really the only thing that matters sponsorships are completely irrelevant in my opinion the only thing that really matters is that you're making good content on the daily that's accessible to everybody if you are making good content that's on the on the daily regular good content innovating nothing else matters it doesn't matter how many sponsors you have it doesn't matter how fake you are like dr disrespect is literally a character and people watch that all the time so it has nothing to really do with authenticity but i think authenticity is usually hand in hand with good content so it's not necessarily hand in hand but it usually is creator ninjas become nothing more than a puppet a jester a clown doing his embarrassing little dance for whatever garbage sponsorship will throw money at him in exchange for the final piece of his rapidly declining career that's a little bit much i think i i think that's a bit much uh like yeah it's i don't think ninja is like really that bad um like he's just uh like what a surprise like why why is this a bad thing i actually don't think that it's i i think it's a bad thing whenever you look at life as it being centered around your internet presence but ninja's life is not only centered around that nobody's life is only centered around their online presence and what i mean by that is like ninja has a wife he has a family he does a lot of other things that are beyond just what i'm doing on my stream it's like like for example uh narrator projecting no it's just like listen i understand it's like being critical like i i get that i just i don't really agree with entirely the conclusion right and like i think that it's like in a way it's true but i i feel like there's a lot of people who are primarily younger who consume this kind of content that don't have the perspective that somebody like you know ninja or dr lupo has whenever these guys are thinking about what am i going to be doing in 15 years what am i going to be doing in 25 years what are my kids going to be doing you know i you know you want to set up generational wealth and like that's what they're really thinking about like their popularity on the internet is like this is a 30 year old man there's a 34 year old man like for i don't know how old dr oppo he's probably 34 somebody like that right it's like give a [ __ ] it's a give a [ __ ] it's just yeah that's that's what it is it's not about it popularity's fleeting yeah everybody falls off eventually i mean almost everybody there's some people that don't but like a lot of people do [Music] oh that was it okay all right so like listen i'm gonna spend alex at asmin gold galaxy note 69 advert sometime soon it doesn't really matter to me like i don't really worry about that too much or anything else uh this is a video like again i think that a lot of the points that he brought up were were good like as somebody who watches uh i've watched twitch i watched a lot of fortnite back in the day like i think that there's like a ton of things about this that like i would actually want to add and put in as well because like i it's a good video i i didn't i just i didn't like how like the very end of it it seemed like he was just like [ __ ] on ninja for trying to cash in on his popularity because i don't think that's a bad thing i i don't i don't think so at all i i feel like that's a uh uh that that that's yeah look at this com i think this comment is really good his career didn't die it just achieved its purpose wealth and like that's not a bad thing uh it's not it and i think that it's just it's a naive kid mentality to think otherwise man uh that's what it is and i was hating a lot yeah absolutely and uh i think a lot of streamers right a lot of streamers look up to ninja uh you know it's like kind of like the ninja was the first person who really made it in my mind right ninja is the first person to transcend just streaming on twitch and really like make it so i think a lot of people whether it's you know like and like obviously other people have like scratched that scratched that ceiling but nobody's really broken it like ninja had at that point right and like he paved the way for a lot of other people to like really grow and expand into space in a way that nobody had ever expected before so i scratched it yeah i scratched it um summit scratched it uh soda poppin right they all got really really really really close but nobody broke through until ninja and that's the fact nobody did uh raven and johnson kinda did yep exactly and so i think people should put more respect on ninja's name like absolutely like he did something nobody else had nobody else could do nobody else could do what he did and like was that luck was it skill was it being at the right place at the right time guess what all of the above all of the above bye bye two yep we've got a whole lot of people now too and i thought ninja died of ligma no that was one of the better uh the better memes absolutely and just in general i feel like a lot of these uh these videos you've got to keep in mind is that these videos are not always entirely accurate with these ways you change the uh the gambling scene uh the gaming scene in the world absolutely yeah right right place the right time is luck no it's not because you have to know when to be there in the first place right it's kind of like um it's luck this is why i always say right it's i think a lot of people attribute things that other people have to luck instead of effort so they can rationalize why they don't have those things themselves what i've learned over time is that everybody's get everybody gets lucky sometimes but people that work harder get lucky more often that's my best advice [Music] you

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