Fortnite players condemned for mocking death of 9-year-old Astroworld victim Epic GamesFortnite Battle Royale players have been condemned after comments mocking the death of the youngest victim killed at the Astroworld festival went viral on TikTok. Travis Scott\u2019s Astroworld festival event in Houston, Texas ended in tragedy on November 5, as a crowd surge crushed and killed 10 people. Following the event, an investigation was triggered into the safety procedures of security working on-site and Scott himself is reportedly being sued for over $750 million. One of those was a nine-year-old boy called Ezra Blount, who passed away at the Texas Children\u2019s Hospital in Houston, a family lawyer confirmed on November 15. The child was placed in a medically induced coma after suffering serious injuries. As people around the world mourned all 10 who paid the ultimate price during the event, insensitive comments have surfaced on social media with some people making Fortnite-related jokes in relation to Ezra\u2019s death. Fortnite players mock Astroworld victim In a TikTok clip posted by Vlone, which has surpassed over 6.2 million views at the time of writing, many remarks were made. These included \u201cbro became a skull trooper,\u201d which is a skin in Fortnite featuring a skeleton face, as well as \u201cLil bro got Boogie Bombed.\u201d Another reads: \u201cBro got lost in the storm.\u201d Watch the TikTok video here if embed below doesn\u2019t load. The TikTok users involved The usernames behind each of these replies were montyyyy_y, uzisiins, and thizzin_83. Just like so many other \u201ctroll\u201d posts made on social media, each of the accounts do not have a clear name attached to them, allowing them to hide \u2013 at least publicly \u2013 behind somewhat anonymous profiles. Thousands of comments, in reply to Vlone\u2019s video, have criticized the reactions of those three users. However, those are just examples of what is a larger pool of Fortnite troll replies. Others said: \u201cAt least bro got top 9,\u201d and \u201cBro forgot to pop a med kit.\u201d A number of TikTok users have moved to condemn the comments. One posted: \u201cThis is messed up.\u201d Another said: \u201cThese comments are dark humor it\u2019s kids trying to act cool by making jokes outta those who lost their lives.\u201d \u201cThis comment section isn\u2019t it, for real. Bro was a kid,\u201d a user replied. \u201cThese comments are evil.\u201d In April 2020, Travis Scott hosted his own Astronomical festival in Epic Games\u2019 popular battle royale game, meaning the crossover of fans between the artist and video game developer is stronger than many others in the industry. Since the Astroworld disaster, the game\u2019s developers have removed Travis content in-game. Whether the Epic Games team or Travis Scott himself will move to castigate those behind such comments remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite players condemned for mocking death of 9-year-old Astroworld victim Epic GamesFortnite Battle Royale players have been condemned after comments mocking the death of the youngest victim killed at the Astroworld festival went viral on TikTok. Travis Scott\u2019s Astroworld festival event in Houston, Texas ended in tragedy on November 5, as a crowd surge crushed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}