After Drake picked up the controller and played Fortnite with Ninja, streaming gained legitimacy in the eyes of millions around the planet.
I still remember where I was when I found out.
My phone would not stop vibrating in my pocket as I lounged around my parent’s place. “It’s probably just another group chat going off...” I thought. I wasn’t in the mood to jump into a long-winded mindless conversation about how Dennis Rodman was why Donald Trump and Kim Jon Un shook hands.
But as the notifications got more consistent, I decided to look at my phone. Facebook messages, texts, emails, literally the entire gaming world was in a frenzy. And for a good reason.
“DRAKE IS PLAYING FORTNITE...WITH NINJA...ON TWITCH...RIGHT NOW…”
For gamers, the hysteria was real. It’s not every day that you get to watch one of the largest names in music play a free video game that you enjoy live. But for Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, Twitch, and Fortnite, this moment was bigger than the 600,000 viewers it attracted.
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