Epic Games, seriously causing a frenzy to erupt in the entire Fortnite community. They revealed the Icon Series skin for none other than MrSavage, the announcement brilliantly captioned: “If we would have shown it to @MrSavage in 2018, he would have never believed it 🥹.” The Norwegian kid sure had his glow-up.
An Icon skin is Fortnite’s way to give a lasting legacy to the biggest Fortnite-youtubers and celebrities that shall forever grace the game’s halls as playable skins. We got Ninja, Loserfruit, TheGrefg-the big dogs. MrSavage is now joining in this mostly boys’ club. The teaser depicted an awesome design that goes with his whole vibe: clean and futuristic. Big W for MrSavage without a doubt.
And this is when it goes down, and I assure you, it goes even down. The reply section is a war zone, everyone is screaming Typical Gamer’s name as soon as the announcement came out. Player after player clamoring for justice for TG, with Nate bluntly battling on, “@Fortnite @MrSavage What about tg man come on he deserves one you guys just keep on passing bro smh justice for @TypicalGamer”. He’s by far not alone in that. The memes start flying now, with pictures of a crying Typical Gamer with the caption “TG right now”. It’s bad.
So now there’re two camps. Camp one just goes, “This is so deserved!”-pointing out the fact that MrSavage has been legit a competitive player for forever, crazy consistent, and just basically revived comp in 2024. One defender, AytiHD, clapping back to a hater: “Random people? Mr savage has been playing since fort came out and is one of the best in the game. TG ain’t shit”.
Camp two is then the “What about Typical Gamer?!” feel that TG has been snubbed for years and to give the spot to MrSavage first is a big sucker punch. The sentiment that Typical Gamer has been a part of the community for long and deserves his flowers. And then it creates this awkward vibe where people are happy for Savage but are kind of angry at Epic for what they see as a slight.
But this is just the tip of the chaos. Many will get into the mix asking, “Who the fuck is Mrsavage 🤣,” which is classic. Another lot will be putting in style requests- one player begging for a Green Ranger style sans shield. Of course, this is gonna turn into a whole lot of “when does it drop??” questions with everyone willing to throw all the V-Bucks they got on it.
It’s quite interesting because the whole controversy sheds light on how much these Icon skins actually mean for the community: it’s not merely a cosmetic; it’s now a legacy and recognition of impact. Epic is the royal crowning of all these moments. There are these situations where, either by design or not, they put every last person under the spotlight- this time, it definitely stirred the pot.
Uh, what was I going on about? Oh, right-the skin itself looks crazy good. And with the iconic MrSavage logo and that chosen sharp design, it really is going to fly off the shelves. But arguably, the drama is as big as the announcement itself, with the folks getting into casts about who actually deserves an Icon skin, which creators gave the most, and it already sparked talks for female streamers getting representation, one user mentioned, “we haven’t had a female streamer icon in 3 chapters 😩.”
At the end of the day, congrats to MrSavage. That’s major. But they just stirred up the fire on the demand for Typical Gamer by Epic Games. On-pressure official. You gotta wonder if they’ve got a TG skin in the works just to put a lid on it, or they’re gonna let this stew. Either way, never, never is Fortnite Twitter boring. This is the content we live for: messy, passionate, completely unpredictable reactions that make gaming communities so wild. Now everybody is just on their butt, waiting for the item shop update.
