{"id":57500,"date":"2018-12-21T03:08:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/in-2018-ninja-became-twitchs-first-mainstream-star\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T03:08:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:08:48","slug":"in-2018-ninja-became-twitchs-first-mainstream-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/in-2018-ninja-became-twitchs-first-mainstream-star\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2018, Ninja became Twitch\u2019s first mainstream star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cMore people watch gaming video content than HBO, Netflix, ESPN and Hulu combined,\u201d data crunchers at Nielsen say. <\/a>It feels like we get metrics like these every year, meant to prove just how big and influential platforms like Twitch are. Somehow, though, the cultural impact of live streaming hasn\u2019t felt entirely real. (If it was, Nielsen wouldn\u2019t have to say so.) <\/em>Sure, tons of people might watch a man in a wig <\/a>shoot people\u2019s faces off for hours every day, but next to a pop culture giant like Kanye West, a successful Twitch streamer is a microcelebrity. Well, until this year.<\/p>\n

2018 saw the rise of the world\u2019s first game for the meme generation: Fortnite<\/em>. And it exploded with the force of The Dress, multiplied by a thousand. The battle…<\/p>\n

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\u201cMore people watch gaming video content than HBO, Netflix, ESPN and Hulu combined,\u201d data crunchers at Nielsen say. It feels like we get metrics like these every year, meant to prove just how big and influential platforms like Twitch are. Somehow, though, the cultural impact of live streaming hasn\u2019t felt entirely real. (If it was,… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":57501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t