{"id":83489,"date":"2026-06-01T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83489"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:36:31","slug":"fortnite-fans-are-at-war-over-a-controversial-streamers-inclusion-and-the-toxic-backlash-its-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83489","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite Fans Are at War Over a Controversial Streamer’s Inclusion, and the Toxic Backlash It’s Created"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Fortnite’s latest season wraps up, its community isn’t focused on whether The Ice King or the Foundation will win its current conflict. Instead, its players are warring online over a collaboration with a controversial streamer in the battle royale game’s next <\/em>season \u2014 as revealed in a new piece of artwork. <\/p>\n

An image that looks to show the Fortnite<\/a> startup screen for Chapter 7: Season 3 has revealed an in-game creature seemingly inspired by TheBurntPeanut, a streamer accused of using homophobic language online.<\/p>\n

Initial reaction to TheBurntPeanut apparently being a part of Fortnite’s next season was strongly negative among fans, with links to clips of him allegedly using the F-slur, and laughing at a fellow player who appears to begin saying the N-word.<\/p>\n

“I just don’t understand man, it’s really not that hard to do background checks, Epic Games is literally allergic to them for no reason,” wrote<\/a> Blortzen, a prominent Fortnite fan on X\/Twitter. Other players pointed to the unfortunate timing of the reveal, at the beginning of a month associated with Pride.<\/p>\n

Amid some initial confusion over who the character was meant to be inspired by, Fortnite’s senior director “EpicTofu” Chris confirmed<\/a> it was indeed designed to be a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Fortnite’s latest season wraps up, its community isn’t focused on whether The Ice King or the Foundation will win its current conflict. Instead, its players are warring online over a collaboration with a controversial streamer in the battle royale game’s next season \u2014 as revealed in a new piece of artwork. An image that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":83491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83493,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83489\/revisions\/83493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}