Drake drew attention to Fortnite, but the game is not ready to be called an esport. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
Last Wednesday, Drake joined popular Fortnite player Tyler “Ninja” Blevins on his Twitch stream to play a couple of Fortnite games. By the time the stream was over, Ninja had 50,000 new subscribers, had shattered the Twitch record for concurrent viewers on an individual stream with 635,000, and NFL player Juju Smith-Schuster and hip hop artist Travis Scott had joined the action.
The eyes of the gaming world were on Blevins’ stream — and he didn’t disappoint.