In Fortnite , Epic regularly brings new skins into the ship. An amateur artist from DeviantArt accused Epic of stealing her image and using it for the skin Taro. However, this quickly turned out to be a hoax. It was exactly the other way around.
This was the accusation: Fortnite released the skin “Taro” in the cash shop on November 14. This is an Asian-looking skin with a white mask and turquoise hair.
A user from the DeviantArt platform came forward this weekend and showed Taro and her own image, which she allegedly painted some time ago (Featured image via Fortnitenews).
In direct comparison, it seemed plausible that Epic had drawn from the artist’s template.
The accusation was clear: The billion-dollar company Epic is going around stealing the work of a starving artist, making millions from it, and not even giving a pat on the back as a thank you.
This is simply terrible, they steal their art without giving anything back, said the allegedly robbed artist.
This is what Epic said: When asked, Epic responded that they take these accusations very seriously and have initiated investigations to check this.
This escalated over the weekend and many believed it.
Hoax artist added image to gallery afterwards
This is how the hoax was uncovered: Another user on DeviantArt looked into the matter and exposed the accusation as a hoax.
The user “Pyro-Zombie” said he is an artist himself and was initially outraged by these accusations, but then he looked into it and found that the artist had made it up.
Google cache reveals the hoax
By checking the cache, Pyro-Zombie found out that the supposedly robbed artist simply edited her gallery to add the “new image” afterwards. In older versions of the gallery, there was a completely different image in that place.
The exposed hoax artist then deleted the accusations.
The supposedly robbed artist had thus designed “her” image based on the skin and not the other way around.
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