He is now one of the most famous streamers in the world, but five years ago, he was sitting around playing Fortnite. Now, IShowSpeed appears to be teasing a new collaboration with Fortnite, despite the game doing no such thing.
In a recent stream, IShowSpeed says, “Speaking of Fortnite…I don’t want to say anything, but let me just do this,” and he winks a bunch of times. It’s not clear what else that could even mean. He’s not a music artist, so this wouldn’t be some Festival thing. Far less famous content creators have gotten skins and/or events in the game, and well, it’s a pretty obvious conclusion.
IShowSpeed has grown an enormous online footprint. 2.45 million Twitch followers, 41.3 million TikTok followers, 41.8 million Instagram followers and 45.1 YouTube subscribers. He’s toured the world in a number of viral videos and has a number of skits showcasing his surprisingly amazing athletic prowess, often against professional athletes.
Speed has a history with Fortnite; playing there produced some of his most famous reaction memes and helped him grow his audience. Fortnite is always pursuing top creators for collabs, and him getting on board makes sense. Here’s a list of other creators who have gotten collabs so far:
- Ninja
- Loserfruit
- Lachlan
- TheGrefg
- Lazarbeam
- Bugha
- Chica
- Ali-A
- Mr. Beast
- Flakes Power
- Khaby Lame
- Nick Eh 30
- El Rubius
- Kai Cenat
- Mr. Savage
That’s actually more than I thought. I’ve definitely missed some of these over the years. The biggest one there is Mr. Beast, the most popular YouTuber there is. Having a similar online presence to IShowSpeed these days is Kai Cenat. All of this leads to the idea that Speed is a very logical choice for a skin.
Fortnite is wrapping up a long, long list of skins for its Fortnitemares Halloween event. It was led by one celebrity, Doja Cat, and got all the way to Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, using her likeness. In between were icons like Jason Voorhees and Art the Clown from Terrifier.
But it will be time to move on come November. The collab is likely not for some time, as leakers are pretty good at digging out skins that are almost ready to go. I would expect Fortnite itself to start teasing this in the coming weeks. Also, given Speed’s MO, I might expect a larger scale event with him in real life other than just the skin hitting the store. Maybe he jumps over Tim Sweeney or something. We will probably find out pretty soon here.
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