Ninja Broke Up With Some Guys — Streamer Ninja with pink hair and headphones during a Twitch livestream broadcast

Ninja Broke Up With Some Guys

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Published September 8, 2026

Ninja Broke Up With Some Guys is a Twitch clip from January 2019 where streamer Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins accidentally said he had broken up with 'girls, some guys' while giving dating advice on stream2. The slip got chopped into a viral Twitter edit set to Bruno Mars' 'Treasure' and became one of the defining Ninja meme edits of the year1.

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Overview

Ninja Broke Up With Some Guys refers to a short Twitch clip of Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins mid dating-advice ramble saying he has 'broken up with girls, some guys' before catching himself and clarifying he was kidding2. The joke of the meme is the double take, editors freeze the moment right as Ninja says 'wait' and cut straight into music or a punchline1.

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The format that actually went viral pairs the slip with a second Twitch clip of streamer Actionjaxonbtw playfully slapping Ninja on the back and butt, with exaggerated slap sound effects laid over the top and Bruno Mars' 'Treasure' cued up on the beat drop1. Later remixes on Instagram kept the same beat drop but swapped in different reaction cuts, kiss edits and reply-guy captions poking at Ninja's on-stream persona2.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitch (source clip) / Twitter (viral spread)
Creator
@ImReeeK
Date
2019

The source clip is from a January 4th, 2019 Twitch broadcast in which Ninja was answering a fan's question about relationships and past breakups2. Talking through his history, he said he had 'been broken up with, I've broken up with girls, some guys' and immediately paused, said 'wait,' and clarified he was joking1.

Four days later, on January 8th, 2019, Twitter user @ImReeeK cut the moment together with the Actionjaxonbtw butt-slap clip and 'Treasure' by Bruno Mars, posting the edit that turned the slip into a meme2.

How It Spread

@ImReeeK's tweet took off almost immediately, pulling more than 17,100 retweets and roughly 1.4 million views inside three weeks2. The edit was mirrored onto Instagram and YouTube within days, and Instagram meme accounts started posting their own recuts using the same 'Treasure' drop as an audio hook2.

On January 10th, 2019, Dexerto covered the edit and Ninja's response to it, writing that when Ninja finally watched the clip live on stream he laughed at the editing and singled out the exaggerated slap sound effects as his favorite part1. Ninja's own on-stream reaction, hosted on Streamable, gave the meme a second push as clip channels reposted his laughing response alongside the original edit2.

The format stayed a Ninja-specific in-joke rather than a template other streamers borrowed, and it is still cited as one of the signature Ninja edits from his 2018 to 2019 Fortnite-era peak1.

How to Use This Meme

The common convention is to freeze the source clip on Ninja's 'wait,' drop into a beat, and cut to something incongruous, typically the Actionjaxonbtw slap or a kiss/reaction edit, with 'Treasure' by Bruno Mars often used as the audio bed1. Newer edits sometimes swap the payoff clip while keeping the same audio timing so the joke still lands on the beat drop2.

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