Author: Nathan Grayson / Source: Kotaku
For a single night, the ultimate buddy cop duo, Twitch king Ninja and rapper Drake (digitally dressed as John Wick), took over Twitch, Twitter, and the collective consciousness. Now Ninja’s got 10,000 shiny new subscribers, and it seems like this whole “Fortnite + celebrities” trend is here to say.
Prior to Drake’s surprise cameo on The Ninja Is Better Than You At Fortnite Show, Ninja had a little over 170,000 subscribers. By the end of a night that shattered Twitch records and also included appearances from rapper Travis Scott, NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster, and, uh, Kim DotCom, he had over 180,000. Ninja’s sub numbers have been skyrocketing for the past few weeks—pretty much ever since he broke the all-time sub record with 50,000 at the end of February—but 10,000 in a single stream is still unprecedented. That’s around a fourth of the total subscribers Ninja has
Based on Twitch’s base subscriber rate of $4.99—of which streamers reportedly receive half by default—Ninja made at least $25,000…
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