Tyler Blevins, the popular video game streamer known to millions of fans online as Ninja, revealed Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with skin cancer.
Blevins, 32, who is the most followed person on Twitch, said in a post on X that he was “still a little shocked” by the news. She learned the news during an appointment with her dermatologist for an annual skin and mole exam.
“I had a mole on the bottom of my foot and I wanted to have it removed just to be safe,” he wrote in the post. “It has come back as a melanoma, but they are optimistic that they caught it at an early stage.”
He said there was a second black spot near the mole, which was also biopsied, and that doctors were working to “surround the melanoma in hopes of seeing a clear non-melanoma edge under the microscope.” “They will remove a larger area of the tumor and find out it's melanoma.” Understood. ”
He urged his followers to get their skin tested.
“It's good to have hope for early detection, but treat this as a PSA and get a skin test,” he said.
Representatives for Mr. Blevins did not respond to requests for comment.
A streamer for more than a decade, Blevins is one of the most popular figures in the esports and gaming world. He has 19 million followers on his Twitch, where he often plays titles such as Fortnite.
He became so synonymous with Fortnite that the title's developer, Epic Games, eventually released a ninja “skin.” Players can purchase it and use it to look like Blevins when playing the game.
His popularity goes beyond gaming, and in 2019 he appeared on the popular reality competition series “The Masked Singer.”
Blevins made headlines in 2019 when he left Twitch to join Microsoft's short-lived streaming platform Mixer. However, he returned to Twitch in 2020 after Mixer was shut down.
