Streamer Claims Fortnite Copied His Appearance For Skin

Twitch streamer and YouTuber Petey Plastic has accused the Epic Games of using his likeness for a skin in Fortnite. Petey Plastic is now a fast rising twitch streamer as he now has over 19k followers on the platform. He is a LGBT rapper, former celebrity stylist, and now a pro gaymer. Petey has taken over twitter and called out Epic games because of the skin that Petey claims Fortnite copied his appearance.

Petey wrote on twitter; “Being that I’m an official Fortnite creator with EpicGames I’m honestly hella salty they made a character extremely similar to my appearance. Like almost a carbon copy down to the bracelet… At least name the skin after me or something”. According to twitch streamer Petey, he maintained that kind of appearance image for many years already so it is not anything new. Petey also posted a youtube video as he continued to lay into Epic and described all the similarities between his own attire and the skin. He explained in the video; “This skin happens to have heart-shaped glasses, like I always wear. My fur coat that I wear to all the events, including TwitchCon. The tattoos, although they’re not the same exact tattoos, the tattoos are all over the arm, just like my picture”.

He also stated that what makes it so upsetting for him is that Epic does make skins for content creators, such as Ninja, and acknowledges them. Petey wants to reach a resolution with Epic and hopes that the company will name the skin after him.