CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: Over the past decade, Richard Tyler Blevins aka Ninja has turned his passion for gaming into a legitimate career and successfully amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. Recently, streaming superstar Ninja has explained why he thinks 'Kick', Trainwreck’s streaming platform, will be more successful than Mixer.
Back in 2020, Ninja's career was met with abrupt uncertainty after Mixer shut down. However, the streamer announced his move to Twitch shortly after. In light of Kick's growing popularity amid Twitch's controversies, Ninja has given an opinion on how viable he believes the streaming service will be.
'Took too long to get things done'
Stake provides funding for Kick, whereas Mixer was developed by Microsoft. During a stream on April 5, 2023, with his brother, Jonathan Blevins, Ninja explained why he thinks Kick will be more successful than Mixer. During the broadcast, Ninja said, “The main issue with Mixer compared to Kick — and it's abundantly clear— is that it took too long to get things done." He added, "There was like 80 different billion people that had to reach out to somebody else, who had to reach out to somebody else... to get like confirmation to change anything.”
He continued by saying that although his moderators spent a lot of time in discussions with Mixer staff members to improve the platform, they struggled to really implement changes. Creators from all over the world have thus far praised Kick's assistance staff and personnel, with many approaching them quickly for name changes and verification requirements.
When Mixer got an abrupt end
In an announcement on June 22, 2020, Microsoft announced they had decided to shut down their livestream platform. The detailed statement said, “It became clear that the time needed to grow our own livestreaming community to scale was out of measure with the vision and experiences that Microsoft and Xbox want to deliver to gamers now, so we’ve decided to close the operations side of Mixer and help the community transition to a new platform." In a press release, Microsoft continued, “We will work to transition the Mixer community over the next few weeks. Starting on July 22, all Mixer sites and apps will redirect users to Facebook Gaming.”
