It’s off to a flying start, and this season of Fortnite has some nice things in store for us for the weeks to come… Or so it seems, since Squeezie very recently declared that a “little surprise” would be potentially in preparation on the game. A teasing certainly very evasive, but which implicitly can only mean one thing: the French Youtuber n°1 concocts a partnership with Fortnite! And given what Battle Royale has offered in the past with some of the biggest streamers in the world, the possibility ofa Squeezie skin soon in the game is not to be taken lightly.
“May” !
The hypothesis of a Fortnite skin with the image of Squeezie was born at the end of last week, when the famous YouTuber played Fortnite, with Doigby and Locklear. In full live, Squeezie then declares “that there may be a little surprise in Fortnite“. A sentence that means everything and nothing, except that it is pronounced by the biggest YouTuber in France, whose name was mentioned in a document from Epic Games reporting on potential future collabs’.
For experts and dataminers, this leaves little room for doubt: Squeezie could very well become Fortnite’s next Iconic skin. And the first Frenchman to have his skin in the game. The Youtuber now has a community of 16.7 million subscribers on his favorite platform, and would automatically be among the first FR personalities likely to interest Epic.
Epic Games and YouTubers, a long love story
Fortnite didn’t wait for Squeezie to forge juicy partnerships with YouTubers and celebrities. In fact, the publisher has been cultivating a range of “icon” skins since January 2020; cosmetics bearing the effigy of stars in the flesh. Thus, LoserFruit, Pokimane, LazarBeam or even Ninja have already had their own skin on Fortnite. In January 2021, the announcement of the skin of TheGrefG, a famous youtuber in Spain, even broke the world record for simultaneous viewers on Twitch; 2.4 million viewers discover the skin live.
If ever the Squeezie skin becomes a reality, and knowing the strong rivalry between Spain and France in terms of gamingthen a question arises: Can Squeezie break the record set by TheGrefG?
Photo credit: Marion Andrieux
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