Twitch’s biggest game streamer, Ninja, diagnosed with skin cancer

Twitch game streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has revealed he has been diagnosed with skin cancer

Posting on Twitter, the 32-year-old Fortnite gamer – who has 19m followers on Twitch, said a mole removed from his foot was found to be cancerous.

Ninja said another spot on his foot was also being checked, and though “shocked” he was “grateful to have hope” that the cancer was found early.

He is urging others to get regular check-ups.

Ninja has become recognized with Twitch since his return to the streaming site in 2020, following a brief period with Microsoft’s rival platform Mixer – which was shutdown in June that year.

He’s so popular on Fortnite that players can pay to make their characters look like him.

His reputation as one of the most recognisable names in streaming has also led to him appearing on mainstream programmes, such as The Masked Singer US.

In his post on X, Ninja said he found out about the cancer after visiting a dermatologist for an annual check-up of his moles.

“There was a mole on the bottom of my foot that they wanted to remove just to be careful,” he said.

“It came back as melanoma, but they are optimistic that we caught it in the early stages.”

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