Streamers--especially big-time streamers like Ninja--have to deal with an extra-challenging situation whenever they stream their games. Anyone can just look at their stream to know exactly where the streamer is and what they're doing in real-time. This makes it easy to set up ambushes or target a particular streamer for assassination-style kills.
It's called stream-sniping, and it's something that Ninja has gotten used to over the years, but in a Fortnite game from last week, it looks like it might have finally gotten to him.
"It's the same kids bro," Ninja said in a livestream on Thursday. "Get out of my game, get away from me man. You’re not proving anything by going into a f---ing game and running to someone, and when you know they’re in a fight with somebody f---ing killing them."
Ninja placed 39th in a ranked match not even 20 minutes into his stream, which launched him into a rant against stream snipers that at times seemed almost unhinged.
”This game is so f---ing stupid, bro. Like, the community, these little kids, it’s just so dumb. It really is. It’s not fun. It’s just not.’
At one point, Ninja said it was bad enough to make him quit Fortnite entirely, which he believed would damage Fortnite in the long run. "All they're doing is just harming the game, man. Because I'm not gonna f---ing play it! I'm not gonna play, I'm not gonna stream it.
"But good for you, man," he added. "Get your f---ing clip, send it to your buddies. You killed Ninja. I haven’t played the game in, like, ever. I don’t play it anymore. I come back and I still almost kill all of you idiots. You guys grind this game 12 hours a day, minimum, box fighting in f---ing creative all day, and I still almost down you with zero practice competitively. Every time."
Playing devil's advocate, a follower suggested that perhaps he wasn't being stream-sniped at all and that "not everyone is out to get you." This did not go over well with Ninja, leading to an even longer rant.
"That guy's been in my games four times in a row," Ninja explained. "I just get angry, I get angry when people don't believe me."
To Ninja's credit, he did calm down when the follower apologized, but he maintained his expertise when it comes to being stream-sniped. "There are more streamers that cry stream snipers than are actually getting stream-sniped. So like I get it, be skeptical. But not with me! Trust me! I've been playing this game, I've been playing battle royales for half a decade. I know what it's like to be stream sniped, man."
You can see the whole thing in the video above. Ninja’s Fortnite hiatus was relatively short as he played duos with Reverse2K the next day, but he hasn’t played Fortnite since then.
Source: Twitch