Fortnite’s brainrot skins for Tung Tung Tung Sahur and Ballerina Cappuccina are about to hit the Item Shop, and the community has already made its feelings very clear. Before the skins have even gone on sale, Ballerina Cappuccina has been voted the lowest-rated cosmetic in the entire history of Fortnite on community tracking site Fortnite.gg, sitting at just 6.78% (67, ironic) positive ratings out of 2,619 votes. Tung Tung Tung Sahur fares slightly better at 17.66% from 2,587 votes, but that still places it firmly among the most disliked skins the game has ever seen.
The skins, which were added to the game’s files with the v40.10 update on 1 April and decrypted by dataminers shortly after, are expected to go live in the Item Shop on 3 April at 8 PM ET. But the backlash was already in full swing long before anyone could actually buy them.
The Lowest-Rated Skin in Fortnite History
Ballerina Cappuccina’s 6.78% approval rating is not just low. It is, according to Fortnite.gg’s ranking data, the worst score any skin has ever received on the site, sitting below thousands of other cosmetics including skins that were deliberately review-bombed for unrelated reasons. In a darkly funny coincidence, that rating percentage mirrors the 67 meme that has become inseparable from the brainrot trend itself.
Tung Tung Tung Sahur lands higher at 17.66%, but “less hated” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
Both characters are part of the so-called “Italian Brainrot” meme trend that exploded across TikTok in 2025, featuring AI-generated anthropomorphic characters with text-to-speech narration.
Tung Tung Tung Sahur, also known as Triple T, is an anthropomorphic wooden plank wielding a baseball bat, while Ballerina Cappuccina is a humanoid coffee cup in a tutu. Despite the Italian label, the Tung Tung Tung Sahur meme actually originated in Indonesia, referencing the rhythmic drumbeat used to wake people for sahur, the pre-dawn meal during Ramadan.
A Community Already on Fire
The negative reception is not happening in a vacuum. Fortnite’s playerbase was already frustrated with Epic Games over a series of recent decisions that have eroded goodwill heading into Chapter 7 Season 2. The company laid off over 1,000 employees, including the designer behind Fortnite’s most recognisable character, Jonesy. Fans were further angered when reports emerged that one of the laid-off employees was terminally ill and lost their life insurance as a result.
Epic also increased V-Bucks prices, and reports surfaced that the company was paying millions of dollars for creator maps like Steal a Brainrot while cutting staff. Branded collaborations that would normally generate excitement were instead reframed by fans as wasteful spending. “They did not deserve that much money, that money could have been used on better things,” Fortnite influencer SypherPK said during a late March livestream, referring to monetised user-created maps.
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Why AI-Generated Skins Hit a Nerve
The brainrot characters are not from a traditional entertainment franchise. They are memes built almost entirely with generative AI, and that distinction matters to a large portion of the Fortnite community. While the actual Fortnite skins themselves were modelled by Epic’s artists, the source material is AI-generated, and for fans who just watched over a thousand human developers lose their jobs, the optics are grim.
“One thousand people lost their jobs for this,” reads one popular Reddit post featuring a brainrot character holding up the 6-7 meme.
Commenters acknowledged that Epic likely planned these collaborations well in advance, but the critique was never meant to be literal. For these fans, releasing AI-born characters while reducing the human workforce felt like a statement about where Epic’s priorities lie, intentional or not.
Criticism of Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has also intensified, with fans pointing to the billions spent on legal battles against Apple and Google, which included deliberately getting Fortnite removed from the iOS App Store for four years.
Fans Vow to Hunt Brainrot Players In-Game
The community response has gone beyond negative ratings. Across Reddit and social media, players are pledging to target and eliminate anyone wearing the brainrot skins in matches. In a season themed around picking sides in a factional war, fans say they are setting rivalries aside to unite against what they are calling “Team Brainrot.” Others are urging each other not to spend V-Bucks on the skins at all, with some threatening to drop the game entirely.
Whether that translates into a real impact on Epic’s bottom line is another question. According to Fortnite.gg, April’s peak player count is currently sitting at roughly half of what it was at the same point last year. The month is still young, and Epic has updates in the pipeline including a Toy Story collaboration and the long-awaited Arenas mode arriving on 9 April. But if brainrot skins were divisive enough to push frustrated players over the edge, it may take more than upcoming crossovers to bring them back.
What the Brainrot Set Includes
The full Brainrot cosmetic set consists of seven items, based on dataminer decryptions from the v40.10 update files. Each skin can be purchased individually or as part of a discounted bundle. Epic has not confirmed official pricing, but estimates based on standard bundle discount structures suggest the following:
| Item | Expected Price |
|---|---|
| Tung Tung Tung Sahur Skin | 1,500 V-Bucks |
| Ballerina Cappuccina Skin | 1,500 V-Bucks |
| Pickaxes | 800 V-Bucks each |
| Weapon Wrap | 500 V-Bucks |
| Full Brainrot Bundle | ~3,300 V-Bucks (estimated 40% discount) |
Some outlets have speculated that Epic could price the set lower than usual given that the characters are not tied to a major intellectual property. The skins also come with meme-inspired emotes, including the 6-7 gesture.
Brainrot’s Popularity Versus Its Reception
The irony of the backlash is that brainrot content is demonstrably popular within Fortnite itself. The Steal the Brainrot creative map is one of the most-played user-created experiences in the game, consistently pulling hundreds of thousands of players. That engagement is almost certainly why Epic pursued the collaboration in the first place.
But there is a gap between enjoying brainrot memes in a free creative map and paying 1,500 V-Bucks for an AI-derived skin during a period of mass layoffs and price increases. For the most vocal portion of Fortnite’s community, the brainrot skins have become a symbol of everything they feel has gone wrong with Epic’s direction, regardless of whether the collaboration was planned months ago. Whether the silent majority votes differently with their wallets when the skins actually go live remains to be seen.