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It has been a crazy couple of weeks for Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, the 26-year-old Twitch streamer who recently played the popular game "Fortnite" with Drake and reportedly makes half a million dollars every month from his bedroom.

In just the past five days, he's gained an average of 83,000 followers a day on Twitch, broken a world record for greatest number of in-game kills on a "Fortnite" mode called Duos. He also entangled himself in his first large-scale scandal by casually rapping a racial slur during a livestream.

Ninja has taken the internet by storm. And Twitch projections show that Ninja's online popularity is only growing.

Here's everything you need to know about Ninja, the pro gamer who's bringing streaming into the mainstream:

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