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Yes. Ninja loses 15,000 subs every day he doesn't stream [0] (The linked article is a super interesting profile -- definitely recommend it).

[0] http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/24710688/fortnit...

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This is outdated information. He was losing subscribers because the bulk of his subscriptions in 2018 came from Amazon Prime, which were (maybe still are?) not automatically renewable. His numbers peaked after a stream with Drake in March of 2018. His attrition was from people forgetting to re-activate their complementary Amazon Prime subscriptions. In fact, the people who actually pay out-of-pocket for a 'tier 1' was estimated to be around 15,000. There's a cohort of unaccounted for 'hidden' subscriptions that are impossible to categorize, but I guess my point here is that the attrition was more of an entertainment bubble bursting over a couple months than a causal result of a break.

Amazon Prime subscribers are '5 seconds of fame' subscribers. His core audience has stabilized to pre-Drake numbers as of December, around 5-6k tier 1 subscribers. Note, subscriptions on Twitch are different from 'follows.' Subscriptions have direct monetary value and follows are indirectly valuable metrics (analogous to subscriptions on YouTube).

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