"I was so mad": Ninja calls out Epic Games for not releasing his Fortnite Icon skin earlier

Twitch streamer and well-known Fortnite content creator Tyler "Ninja" recently revealed during an interview with FaZe Apex that he had been left frustrated after being given a Fortnite Icon skin during Chapter 2 of the game, which was termed by the streamer as the "worst chapter ever".

To those unaware, the Fortnite Icon skin series has a number of in-game cosmetics resembling popular personalities such as streamers, musicians, athletes, and even meme sensations like TikToker Khaby Lame.

Ninja recounted his previous experience of trying to get through to Fortnite developers to instate the skin earlier than Chapter 2:

"Like, I came to you guys when... during like the Drake stuff, during when we were averaging hundreds of thousands of viewers consistently every single day. I'm putting in like twelve-hour, fourteen-hour streams. We're cooking, and I'm like, let's do this. And they were just like, no, and I was so mad. I still am!"

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"A hundred and forty days of no updates": Ninja explains why he was unhappy about the timing of his Fortnite Icon skin release

Ninja gained popularity in 2017 after being one of the first content creators to get into playing and streaming Fortnite, which was released that year. For a while, he became a leading face for not only the battle-royale shooter but also for the streaming industry as a whole, with him still being the most followed streamer on Twitch today. He has over 19.1 million followers on the Amazon-owned platform.

In a segment during Ninja's hour-and-a-half-long interview with FaZe Apex, the former expressed his dislike of Fortnite's Chapter 2. Talking about the reasons behind his negative perception of the chapter during which his skin was launched, Ninja said:

"They gave it to me in Chapter 2. I think they launched it in the middle of the season when the only new gun they added was a harpoon. I talked about this, there was a hundred and forty days of no updates. A hundred and forty days after releasing, you know, the banger season that they had all year previously."

He further complained about the relatively poorer performance of the game at the time:

"No updates, no live updates, no new loot pool. You know, people were not playing, people were falling off, people were like, not enjoying the new map, and then they're like, yeah we'll do the skin now."

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In other related news, Ninja recently apologized to FaZe streamer Rani "Stable Ronaldo" over comments he had made a year ago. The Fortnite streamer had called the latter "completely irrelevant", in a video posted on X in July 2023.