Italian brainrot characters Tung Tung Tung Sahur and Ballerina Cappuccina may have taken over social media in 2025, but Fortnite players aren’t taking kindly to the presence of AI-generated skins in the battle royale game. Within a day, fans on the community site Fortnite.gg voted the new skins the worst cosmetics in the entire game. Players who use these skins may want to proceed with caution: some Fortnite fans say they will be targeting any and all brainrots they encounter in-game.
From the moment Epic Games hid a teaser for the two brainrot skins in last month’s Chapter 7 season 2 trailer, it was obvious that the inclusion of these characters would be divisive. At the time, some players dramatically announced that the brainrot characters were proof that Fortnite was done for. Since then, Epic Games has lost a staggering amount of goodwill from some of its hardcore fan base. People were already angry that Epic Games increased the prices for V-bucks. Then, the company laid off over 1,000 employees — including the person who designed Fortnite‘s most recognizable character, Jonesy. Sentiment curdled even further as fans learned that one of the employees was terminally ill and lost his life insurance as a result of the layoffs.
