{"id":52921,"date":"2026-05-17T00:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52921"},"modified":"2026-05-17T00:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:57:34","slug":"fortnites-overwatch-butt-buffing-conspiracy-theory-goes-all-the-way-to-the-very-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52921","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite&#039;s Overwatch Butt-Buffing Conspiracy Theory Goes All The Way To The Very Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4696750-overwatchtracer.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan attempted to settle the nearly decade-old legend of Tracer&#8217;s controversial victory pose by telling players that her butt was never nerfed. But the recently released Overwatch skins in Fortnite appear to tell a different story. As noted by several players online, Tracer&#8217;s butt is back and seemingly bigger than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Fans responded to Tracer&#8217;s apparently restored glutes in exactly the mature and measured way you probably predicted.<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GoldenIcarus2\/status\/2054961838832410806\" data-has-image=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-mce-disable-toolbar=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The world has healed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6x2IekOiN8\">pic.twitter.com\/6x2IekOiN8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \u2014 WaxedWingedOne (@GoldenIcarus2) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenIcarus2\/status\/2054961838832410806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">May 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>For anyone who wasn&#8217;t playing when Overwatch debuted almost a decade ago, a vocal segment of players felt that Tracer&#8217;s victory stance over-sexualized her. Blizzard subsequently apologized and reworked Tracer&#8217;s pose. That led to the long-standing myth that her butt was greatly reduced, even though it was only her pose that was changed.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/fortnites-overwatch-butt-buffing-conspiracy-theory-goes-all-the-way-to-the-very-bottom\/1100-6540002\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan attempted to settle the nearly decade-old legend of Tracer&#8217;s controversial victory pose by telling players that her butt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[22852,22851,1913,18082,4512,6868],"class_list":["post-52921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-bottom","tag-buttbuffing","tag-conspiracy","tag-fortnite039s","tag-overwatch","tag-theory","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}