How Ninja makes $500,000 per month playing Fortnite

If you've heard of Fortnite, you've probably heard of Tyler "Ninja" Blevins -- the gaming world's biggest star. He sits down with CNN to talk about how he makes a living from playing video games, and what's next for the gamer.

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[ien]

Red bull is paying him shitload of money to wear their merk.

[jiar]

I made 1.45$ last month from YouTube. I also dropped out of school and quit my job

[mofarah]

I love how he talks about how much money he gets without feeling violated which makes him that more relatable.

[minute]

He also got 500 people banned from fortnite a month

[RayMak]

500, 000 was the lowest amount during the lowest month, ie January...

[uisoka]

The IRS rubbing their hands together like Birdman right now

[JohnPaulBuce]

im not a fan but huge respect to this guy pursuing an almost impossible career in gaming, it really paid off

[rhysstanley]

If anyone is wondering how much Ninja makes the calculations are as follows:

$500, 000 month (I used January to calculate which has 31 days when factoring it into the equation.)
$16, 129.032 a day.
$672.043 an hour.
$11.200 a minute
18.667c a second. (Which if rounded up would equal 19c)
0.018667 a millisecond or 0.00018667 (Depending on which formula used) (Which is also practically extremely worthless there is actually no currency name like 'cents' or 'dollar' to identify it I just thought it will be cool to see.)

The Interview runs for about 3 minutes and 5 seconds so that equates to $34.160 is how much Ninja could have made if he was streaming Fortnite. Plus if you add mistakes made or 'redo's when filming the Interview which we could guess it couldn't have taken no more than an additional 30 seconds of extra filming that would equate to $5.6 so it would be $39.760 if Ninja was streaming Fortnite.

This took me over 20 minutes to do lol.

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[randomracoons]

Yet can't make more than 10 people floss

[massacremaker]

Ninja is trying to make as much money as possible right now as fortnite is the most popular game out there. He knows Fortnite isn't going to be at the top forever that's why he wants to make as much right now

[lebronjames]

I absolutely cannot wait until Fortnite dies.

[MegumiHayashida]

He perfectly represents this current era. Fans donate surely due to his ability to be an entertainer for his audience. Haters hate because he makes more money with less efforts/risks. AND in conclusion: Life doesn't make sense anymore at this point.

[Koenigsegg]

Now i can show my parents that gaming is not a bad thing

[Vanytee]

$500k a month a month and eating cocopops to survive

[Plushymobile]

On a good month
*Almost chokes on spit*

[everythingonyt]

I streamed myself playing fortnite on YouTube and got almost 34 likes!
I told my mom that I’m gonna be a gamer, I dropped outta school, sold everything that was in my room and got myself a decent PC. Wish me luck guys...

[lamelmazerouno]

People don't give ninja credit, he basically open the door for the gaming community, now people can have a career in gaming, thanks to ninja, he's an entrepreneur

[josiah.]

And thats how the mafia works....
Oh yeah yeah

[gman]

And children will still donate to him despite him earning 10x their parents annual salary in a month because they crave attention.

[ahmedalzubairi]

I find it funny that everyone in here is making these comments. Yes, you may be struggling. You may be poor, but at the end of the day there are rich and there are poor. When looking at him, erase the idea of what gaming is perceived. He is simply an entertainer. No one is surprised that Lebron James is making millions, that Robert Downey Jr. is making millions, why be surprised? He isn't working an hourly job, he is an entertainer. They are worth more because people value them more. People in the millions watch their content. A doctor or lawyer should make less. They interact with one person at a time but this man is literally entertaining millions. Its common sense why he makes this much. Yah salty yah just ain't making it. You can argue that its weird we have a society that entertainers are making more than a doctor, but don't be out here acting differently for Ninja but not bringing up the likes of Kim K. or Leborn. They have the exact same job, entertain.