Amongst the wait of Fortnitemares 2022, we would like to pitch this in with the huge amount of requests for the Will Smith Fortnite Skin. We have a lot of icon series skins in the game. But the community really wants the Will Smith aka Mike Lowrey back in Fortnite. Let’s dig a bit deeper as to what happened to it and will it be back or not.
Which is The Skin That we Are Talking About?
The Will Smith Fortnite Skin that we are talking about is the one that was introduced with his famous series ‘Bad Boys’. He was featuring as Mike Lowrey from ‘Bad Boys’ in Fortnite. When Fortnite released the skin everyone supported it a lot. But after Will Smith’s actions at Oscars 2022 live. But this isn’t available in the Item Shop anymore to buy. Neither does it come for purchasing with a bundle.
Why Was The Skin Removed From The Fortnite Item Shop?
According to the news from before, everyone saw Will Smith slap Chris Rock for some jokes that he made on Will’s wife. This boiled up an aggressive action for Will Smith, even as he was leaving the stage he shouted vulgar words.
Chris Rock made a joke about the hair of Jada Pinkett Smith referencing Demi Moore from GI Jane. Furthermore, Pinkett Smith suffers alopecia, a hair loss disease. However inappropriate it be it isn’t just right to slap anyone in front of the whole world watching. As soon as the event took place the whole Fortnite community started to abandon the skin and showing their protests.
Will Players Get The Will Smith Fortnite Skin Again in The Game?
Probably no, but there has been a rise in the requests for it back in the game. Truly speaking its a battle between the protestors vs the supporters. The community that wants the skin back may be small or in minority here as it seems. As we mentioned before there were a lot of protests for removing the skin before. The players that paid for the skin demanded a refund as soon as possible.
Epic Games will be offering refunds in #Fortnite for the Will Smith skin following the recent controversies! pic.twitter.com/6fYhoe1z0j
— JuiceFN – Fortnite Leaks & News (@JuiceFNLeaks) March 28, 2022
Over the time, players from the Fortnite community are also making a ton of memes on the same. Some of which include adding Will Smith back in-game with only his hand as the weapon, or adding a slap emote with his bundle in the Fortnite Item Shop. But we will keep you posted on whether or not the Will Smith Fortnite skin will be back or not.
You can also take a look at the live event of Oscars as Will Smith slapped Chris Rock:
