Streamer Tyler “Ninja moved to Mixer from Twitch last year, reportedly due to conflicts about his contract at Amazon’s streaming site.
Ninja’s move from Twitch recovered in 2020, hitting viewership records in the first part of the year.
With Mixer closing for good, it looks like Ninja may be migrating to yet another new platform. Twitter HYPEX spotted a video simply called “Test” on Ninja’s YouTube channel. The video was quickly made private, but not quickly enough to keep screenshots of the video from making the rounds. While Ninja himself hasn’t made any announcements, the test video is fueling speculation that Ninja will be making the move to YouTube. Ninja’s manager and wife Jessica Blevins tweeted earlier this week “this week will be fun,” which many took to mean that a big announcement from the streamer would be coming soon. When Mixer closed, Ninja was offered a spot on Facebook Gaming, but declined the offer, which leaves a very short list of possible sites he could be moving to.
While Ninja seems like he’ll come out of Mixer’s closure no worse for wear, others aren’t as lucky. Ninja’s arrival to Mixer wasn’t necessarily good news for these smaller streamers either, as the site shifted resources away from them and toward bigger names.
While Ninja’s move to YouTube hasn’t been confirmed, it would make a lot of sense. After he turned down a deal with Facebook Gaming, YouTube and Twitch were essentially the only places for him to go, and it seems unlikely that Ninja would move back to Amazon’s platform after his public split just a year ago.
Source: HYPEX/Twitter, Jessica Blevins/Twitter