Fortnite removes Travis Scott\u2019s \u2018Out West\u2019 emote after Astroworld incident Epic GamesEpic Games have removed Travis Scott\u2019s \u2018Out West\u2019 emote from the Daily Item Shop days after a tragic Astroworld incident left eight dead among concertgoers. The \u2018Out West\u2019 emote was put into the shop\u2019s daily item offering ahead of the Houston, Texas event. Epic later took down the daily section in its entirety and said it would return in the next update to the store. \u201cIt\u2019s known that the \u2018Daily\u2019 section of the Item Shop has been disabled,\u201d Epic said. \u201cThis is intentional and the \u2018Daily\u2019 section will return with the next Item Shop refresh.\u201d The \u2018Out West\u2019 emote plays a snippet of the JACKBOYS and Travis Scott track of the same name. It was a selection in the daily item shop but it has since been taken down following the news of lives lost at the artist\u2019s annual festival. It\u2019s known that the “”Daily”” section of the Item Shop has been disabled. This is intentional and the “”Daily”” section will return with the next Item Shop refresh. pic.twitter.com\/rc6Kqh7qoW \u2014 Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) November 8, 2021 Epic takes down Travis Scott Fortnite emote Scott and Drake are facing legal action for the event from people who were harmed during the set, as reported by The Guardian. Travis Scott became a popular name in Epic Games\u2019 battle royale following his \u2018Astronomical\u2019 2020 in-game concert that ushered in a slate of ICON Series items. Other content related to the rapper includes the Astro Jack and Travis Scott outfits, two backblings, the \u2018Rage\u2019 emote, sprays, and loading screens. Though the \u2018Out West\u2019 emote has been taken down from the Daily Item Shop, players who already have it can still use it across Fortnite. It\u2019s unclear if Epic plans to take further action with content related to the American rapper as the fallout from the Astroworld tragedy continues. Read more: Where to find all Fortnite NPCs in Season 8 – On the first day of the Houston event, eight people died with hundreds more injured as authorities investigate the cause of the \u201cmass casualty event,\u201d according to local law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite removes Travis Scott\u2019s \u2018Out West\u2019 emote after Astroworld incident Epic GamesEpic Games have removed Travis Scott\u2019s \u2018Out West\u2019 emote from the Daily Item Shop days after a tragic Astroworld incident left eight dead among concertgoers. The \u2018Out West\u2019 emote was put into the shop\u2019s daily item offering ahead of the Houston, Texas event. Epic […]<\/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-74240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74240","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=74240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}