This might be not one thing that the Fortnite social media workforce ever thought it will want to deal with in public.
Epic Games, the developer behind the mega-popular battle royale shooter, needed to set the document straight concerning the concept deceased intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein remains to be alive and enjoying Fortnite. The firm’s comms workforce took to X to publicly denounce the conspiracy concept, which had gained some traction on-line over the previous few days. If that wasn’t sufficient, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney put one other nail within the coffin with a post of his own.
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You could also be questioning how, precisely, individuals got here up with the concept Epstein (who died in jail in 2019) was an energetic Fortnite participant in 2026.
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Well, with the discharge of countless documents in the Epstein files, some individuals on the web discovered Epstein’s YouTube profile below the username “littlestjeff1” together with an e mail confirming a purchase order of V-Bucks, Fortnite‘s real-money in-game forex. Internet sleuths additionally discovered a Fortnite profile below the identical username, which had been energetic as of some days in the past.
The drawback, as outlined by the Fortnite comms workforce and Sweeney, is that the participant account in query is just not linked to any of Epstein’s recognized e mail addresses. It seems this was only a case of somebody altering their in-game username as a strategy to troll or idiot different individuals, in keeping with Epic.
There is lots to be upset and disgusted about within the Epstein recordsdata as it’s; you need not make stuff as much as make it appear even worse.