Fortnite: Battle Royale always provides bizarre stories. A professional gamer from Japan has gained fame and honor by pretending to be a little schoolchild. He has now apologized and is making amends.
Who is it about? The player RizArt belongs to the Japanese Pro-eSports team Crazy Raccoon. RizArt is one of the stars of the team, having set a solo record of 34 kills last November, among other achievements. However, this is not the only reason for RizArt’s fame in Japan.
Rather, he is considered “the strongest elementary school student in Japan” as RizArt claims to be only 12 years old and still in the 6th grade of elementary school.
Much of his fame was built on this. But it was all just a fake.
“Elementary school student” is actually 16 years old
This is why RizArt lied about his age: In reality, RizArt is not a school child at all. Instead, the young man is already 16 and attending high school. According to his friends, he looks very young, and thus he was genuinely mistaken for a child.
This led to increasing popularity and subscribers, and he continued to play the game while claiming to be only 12 years old. Hence, he earned the title of Japan’s best Fortnite wonder schoolboy.
This is why he has now confessed the truth: The lie brought RizArt many viewers and earned him good money. However, his guilty conscience began to plague the young professional more and more. Therefore, he decided to come clean shortly after joining the Crazy Raccoons.
Here’s the content of the confession video: He did this live on camera, accompanied by many deep bows and an announcement of self-imposed penance. Unfortunately, the video is only in Japanese, and according to the website Kotaku, RizArt states among other things:
“I am actually not an elementary school student, I am a 16-year-old freshman in high school. I’m very sorry that I didn’t tell the truth. The number of my subscribers kept increasing, and I felt the need to finally tell the truth.
I don’t think that everyone will forgive me soon. I will donate three months of my YouTube earnings to charity. Furthermore, I have decided to shave my head.”
The cover image is taken from the video shown here by RizArt.
