Nearly 40 million people play battle royale video game Fortnite every month. Around 100,000 people celebrated New Year’s Eve in New York’s Times Square. Apparently, the Venn diagram of these groups is two separate circles.
To ring in the new year, immensely popular Fortnite streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins hosted a Twitch stream live from Times Square. In it played Fortnite, chatted to a few sports stars, and failed miserably at convincing the wet, cold, packed-in crowd to dance Fortnite‘s Floss.
In the incredibly awkward clip, Ninja stands on stage and flosses in front of a large, poncho-clad crowd, encouraging them to join in. “I want to see some movement!” he calls to the stationary mass as desperation begins to set in. “I’m not seeing enough movement.” The video has since spread throughout the internet in the way schadenfreude-inducing material is wont to do.
His response? He has completely abandoned the realm of gaming and instead become a dudebro commentator for sportsball https://x.com/BlevBrosSports
his entire twitter is all sports stuff now. Honestly folx I support Ninja in this venture and wish him well. He didn't deserve to be the face of cringe fortnite kids or whatever, he just wanted to be good at video games and instead the modern culture memeified him and made him into a joke.
What did he ever do to deserve that? I don't blame him and in fact I blame the society that doesn't take him seriously and just treats him like a bad joke. He was just a gamer that wanted to be a positive dudebro and instead we had to take ourselves so seriously
It's honestly pathetic and disgusting. Go fuck yourself New York and everyone that made fun of him thinking they were so cool in 2018 when those were the first people to put a mask on and cry to the government. #NinjaDidNothingWrong
