Pretty sure he is very popular... among kids playing Fortnite. Not sure how many of those hanging here at SG.
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^^^ is he that green haired guy that left youtube???
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No idea who he is either.
US streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins has revealed he has been diagnosed with melanoma, a form of skin cancer.
Posting on X, 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 a second dark spot on his foot was also being checked, and though "shocked" he was "grateful to have hope" that the cancer was found early.
Saving people a click anyway^
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"Streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins has revealed he has been diagnosed with melanoma, a type of skin cancer." melanoma is super treatable. he'll be fine
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i think Wolverine/Hugh Jackman as had skin cancer like 5 times
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Yup as long as it's caught early enough, it's typically just a removal of the tumor. It's definitely one of the most treatable cancers.
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my understanding of the most treatable cancer on the planet was just uninstalling league of legends
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I have cancer too, wish someone threw a parade for me.... (I'm 38)
Yeah shame.... Ninja got that toxic gamer competitive culture down but my impression was that he was inherently not a very nice person and I didn't understand the appeal of him as a celebrity. The system is happy to boost garbage as long as it does numbers. I believe he softened up after a while when his numbers were dropping and he realized being a jackass doesnt sell as hard anymore. But good luck with his cancer. Its admittedly difficult for me to have more empathy for him than for most other people that do not have the facilities or luxuries to get the necessary treatments.
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well I am sorry to hear about your Cancer but really I don't follow Ninja myself so no idea just though some people here would be interested - but I do hope you both get well soon
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Yeah... thanks for the well wishes, it could have been easy to be mean because of my cynicism.
Admittedly mine is in a somewhat 'undiagnosed' state since I've had bi-monthly visits to the free clinic a few years now initially for acid reflux that I get medication for, like I literally cannot eat if I dont take my pills everyday, but then I have lumps/growths on my stomach and then a few lumps emerged around the baseline of my neck and skull that is causing some weight loss, headaches, blurry vision and some other discomforting side-effects and I did have a brain anuerysm two years ago, now I've had medication for that particularly for six months now but its not getting better...
The next step is to be referred to the private hospital for endoscopy because the clinic doesnt carry those facilities and diagnostic equiptment which the clinic has not advised to me because of the massive waiting list for treatment so I'm in this limbo of having to keep doing consultations and feedback on my progress until they decide something better needs to happen. It feels like yeah you can get by day-to-day but feels like a house of cards waiting to collapse.
And it all comes with issues of how it affects yours professional life and personal life etc etc its not easy. Just dropped some context because saying you have a serious illness without that context is weak form because someone will ask you have you been to doctor so how do you know you have cancer..... Like people think you fake it because you can't show your illness to them and we're just expected to be fine at all times. The undiagnosed state worries me big time of course, but I dont have the luxury of incurring thousands of dollars of treatment on my family to fast-track the situation, but thats life.
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https://www.ign.com/articles/tyler-ninja-blevins-reveals-cancer-diagnosis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68674388
https://news.sky.com/story/us-gaming-streamer-ninja-reveals-skin-cancer-diagnosis-13102825
I am not sure if this means he still has or hasn't got cancer but still sad news (apart from the got it early)
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