Twitch streamers are no strangers to controversy. From xQc and Pokimane‘s row about Kick and ethics to Adin Ross and Andrew Tate’s drama, the community has seen a lot of arguments over the years. With Ninja being among one of the biggest personalities on the platform, fans are not surprised if he is at the center of a controversy. However, this time, it is Ninja’s comments that landed him in the eye of the Twitch community.

Ninja commented on Stable Ronaldo, making fun of the latter’s viewership numbers. As a result, Stable Ronaldo hit back at Ninja, sparking a new controversy among streamers.

Stable Ronaldo hits back at Ninja

These comments intially came when Cloakzy, Ninja, and TimTheTatman streamed together. As the three opened CS:GO cases, Ninja made comments about Stable Ronaldo’s viewership numbers. He said, “Also Ronaldo is like literally, like, one-twentieth of our following, and is completely irrelevant. So, we should probably keep opening cases. He tried to be an IRL streamer and failed miserably.”

Ronaldo was quick to respond. On his stream, he hit back at Ninja. Ronaldo pulled no punches, calling out Ninja for what the former believes was a sign of disrespect to Ninja’s community when Ninja took the Mixer deal.

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In response to Ninja’s comments, Stable Ronaldo revealed a deal he received early on in his streaming career. When Ronaldo was 15 years old, he received an offer to stream on Facebook Gaming for $18000 a month. It was an offer he declined at a point when his Twitch viewership numbers did not exceed 200-300 viewers. Moreover, Stable Ronaldo spoke about being one of Ninja’s viewers back when the latter streamed H1Z1.

He said, ” I decided to stay on Twitch when I got offered $18,000 a month from Facebook Gaming – when I was 15, 16. To 200 viewers. Right?”

Stable Ronaldo believes Ninja sold out his audience when he signed the $50 million deal to Mixer, especially since he had hundreds of thousands of viewers on Twitch. It was a platform where Ninja came to prominence and built a community of people who loved his content.

Fans think both sides took the argument too far

As these events unfolded, fans quickly realized each side took it too far. They believe Ninja’s comments were inappropriate, but deemed Stable Ronaldo’s response a step too far. Stable Ronaldo’s argument was that Ninja did not just call him out, but anyone with less than a 1000 viewers, which is a majority of streamers on Twitch. In fact, he estimates it is only 0.001% of Twitch viewership.

On the other side, his argument for Ninja moving to Mixer were left largely unappreciated by the community. The community believes fans can understand wanting to move to a platform with lesser viewership such as Mixer. When it is a sum as large as $50 million, they did not see Ninja as a sellout.

What do you think of this entire controversy? Do you think Stable Ronaldo’s response went overboard? Let us know in the comments below!

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