It is uncommon for Epic Video games to make a Fortnite Icon pores and skin for a content material creator who is not particularly centered on Fortnite, however it does occur often. And it seems to be like one other influencer is becoming a member of that membership this week, as Kai Cenat teased on Sunday.
Because the tweet signifies, Cenat goes to disclose the brand new pores and skin on Monday evening at 8:30 PM PT / 11:30 PM ET, and the announcement ought to occur dwell on Twitch, since that is often how they do this stuff. There’ll most likely be a event within the subsequent few days the place gamers can earn the pores and skin without spending a dime, earlier than it releases within the merchandise store later within the week.
Fortnite usually awards Icon skins–that being a pores and skin primarily based on an actual human being, reasonably than a fictional character–either to streamers who’ve a particular concentrate on Fortnite, or celebrities who’re way more broadly well-known, like Mariah Carey, Shaquille O’Neal, Sabrina Carpenter, and folks like that.
Cenat, nevertheless, is Fortnite’s third Icon Skin, after Mr. Beast and Khaby Lame, that falls in between these two categories–content creators who’re well-known sufficient to get a pores and skin regardless of not being recognized for enjoying Fortnite. Epic does not do that fairly often. The Mr. Beast skins had been launched in December 2022, and Khaby Lame was on the Chapter 4 Season 4 battle cross two years in the past. Cenat would be the first such Icon pores and skin to hit Fortnite since Khaby Lame.