Tfue became the second Twitch streamer (Ninja was first) to reach over 10 million followers. But despite the achievement, the once most popular Fortnite player is having a hard time on the platform. Let’s see how his Twitch viewership stats have been falling for the last two years.
How it all started…
The first popularity on the Internet came to Tfue thanks to his sibling JOOGSQUAD. He was the first in the Tenney family to conquer the Internet with pranks, sports challenges and family vlogs, where Tfue also appeared.
Although Tfue himself was keen on sports as a child (he really liked surfing), video games still attracted him more. Tenney uploaded his first video to YouTube back in 2014: at that time he was fond of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, but he first started to become famous thanks to another shooter: Destiny.
Yet what made Tfue real famous is battle royale games. He first started with H1Z1, where he met his future friend and colleague Ninja. But the game that changed it all was Fortnite: Tfue devoted almost all of his time to the new Epic Games title and quickly became Twitch superstar.
Tfue became famous not only with his charisma, but also with his skills in video games. By the end of 2018 Tenney became the most successful Fortnite player by prize money earned in Fortnite: he won over $478K in tournaments in 2018 alone.
Tenney became so popular that he saw no reason to play more tournaments: for example, he and Cloak refused to attend ESL championship held in Europe with $80,000 for first place: both thought that YouTube and regular streaming would bring them more money.
… and how it’s going
Tfue is still one of the most famous English-speaking streamers on Twitch, but his popularity is gradually declining. In 2019 he frequently gathered over 300K viewers at peak, but in 2020 he never scored over 200K.
The main reason for it is that Tfue got tired of Fortnite. He started to play other games, including Call of Duty: Warzone, Minecraft, and Fall Guys, but that didn't get him new viewers compared to days of greatness in Fortnite.
Tfue’s viewership started to decline during Fall 2019: that’s when he admitted that Fortnite no longer brings him pleasure. Tenney eventually returned to the game, but he never reached the former heights. As one can see, Tfue's total hours watched dropped two times compared to the start of 2019.
Tfue’s monthly charts by peak and average number of viewers look the same. Tfue has not updated the viewer records for a long time. And if the Peak Viewers indicator increases from time to time, the average numbers keep on falling.
Perhaps, the best illustration is the comparison graph of Tfue's average number of concurrent viewers over the past two years. He had about 40K average viewers on each stream in 2019, but a year later this number dropped by 44%, amounting to 22.7K people.
According to the results of the first weeks of 2021, the average number of concurrent viewers of Tfue barely exceeds 12.7K people. However, the year has just begun: what if 2021 will become the year of Tfue’s rebirth on Twitch?
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