Upon graduation, he decided to play video games professionally, entering tournaments, joining professional organizations, and live streaming his games.
He attended Grayslake Central High School in Grayslake, Illinois, where he played soccer. Though born in the Detroit area, he moved with his family to the Chicago suburbs when he was an infant. Richard Tyler Blevins was born on June 5, 1991, and is of Welsh descent. Blevins has over 18 million followers on his Twitch channel, making it the most-followed Twitch channel as of March 2023. Blevins' rise among mainstream media began in March 2018 when he played Fortnite together with Drake, Travis Scott and JuJu Smith-Schuster on stream, breaking a peak viewer count record on Twitch. Blevins began streaming through participating in several esports teams in competitive play for Halo 3, and gradually picked up fame when he first started playing Fortnite Battle Royale in late 2017. Richard Tyler Blevins (born June 5, 1991), better known as Ninja, is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber and professional gamer.