Popular videotape gaming banderole Tyler Blevins, known as Ninja to his millions of suckers online, participated on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with skin cancer.
In a post on X, Blevins, 32, who’s the most followed person on Twitch, said he’s” still in a bit of shock” about the news, which he learned during an periodic skin/ operative check appointment with his dermatologist.
There was a operative on the bottom of my bottom that they wanted to remove just to be careful,” he wrote in the post.” It came back as carcinoma, but they’re auspicious that we caught it in the early stages.”
There was a alternate dark spot near the operative, which has also been biopsied, he said, and that croakers ” removed a larger area around the carcinoma with the expedients that under the microscope they will see clearnon-melanoma edges and we will know we got it.”
He prompted his followers to get their skin checked.
” I’m thankful to have stopgap in chancing this early, but please take this as a PSA to get skin checks,” he said.
A representative for Blevins did n’t incontinently return a request for comment.
Blevins, who has been a banderole for further than a decade, is one of the most popular personalities in esports and gaming. He has 19 million followers on Twitch, where he frequently plays titles like Fortnite.
He came so synonymous with Fortnite that, Epic Games, the inventor of the title, ultimately released a Ninja” skin,” which players can buy and use to look like Blevins when they play the game.
His fashionability has transcended the gaming sphere — in 2019, he appeared on the popular reality competition series “ The Masked songster. ”
Blevins made captions when he left Twitch in 2019 for Microsoft’s short- lived streaming platform, Mixer. But he returned to Twitch in 2020 after Mixer shut down.
