Fortnite Brainrot Ballerina Cappucina and Tung Tung Tung Sahur Skins Arrive to Record-Low Ratings and a Full-Blown Fan Revolt

Fortnite’s brainrot skins for Tung Tung Tung Sahur and Ballerina Cappuccina are about to land in the Item Shop, and the meta-reaction beat the drop itself. Ballerina Cappuccina already sits as the lowest-rated cosmetic in Fortnite’s history on Fortnite.gg, at 6.78% positive out of 2,619 votes, 67, fittingly. Tung Tung Tung Sahur does a bit better at 17.66% from 2,587 votes, which still puts it near the bottom of the barrel this game has ever shipped.

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, aka Triple T, is a wooden plank with a baseball bat. Ballerina Cappuccina is a coffee cup in a tutu. The Italian-sounding name is misleading, the meme itself started in Indonesia, tied to 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 around the same window, and reports came out that the company was paying millions for creator maps like Steal a Brainrot while cutting staff. That’s the context players are reacting to, not just the skins themselves. “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, talking about 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.

 
These collaborations were locked in well before the layoffs, that much is obvious to anyone who’s watched a live-service cycle from the inside. Patch content like this doesn’t get built overnight. But the timing is what stings, AI-born characters landing in the shop right as headcount drops reads as a statement about priorities, whether Epic meant it that way 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:

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.
There’s a real gap between goofing around with brainrot memes on a free creative map and dropping 1,500 V-Bucks on an AI-derived skin during layoffs and price hikes. For the loudest part of the community, that gap is the whole story right now, these skins have become shorthand for everything they think Epic’s gotten wrong, planned months ago or not. Whether the quieter majority actually skips the purchase once the skins go live is the part nobody can answer yet.