Fortnite World Cup winner Bugha\u2019s social media presence explodes after victory Epic Games16-year-old Fortnite phenom Kyle \u2018Bugha\u2019 Giersdorf shocked the world by dominating the World Cup Solos tournament and gained thousands of fans across social media shortly after the event. The Sentinels player came into the tournament at just around 30,000 Twitter followers but after a strong opening game where he came away with nine eliminations and the Victory Royale, he began to gain followers. However, it wasn\u2019t until he came away with his convincing victory in the tournament that he really began raking in the followers across all of his social media platforms. His Twitter boomed all the way to over 200,000 followers after his victory and that number is still rising as more and more people learn about his play at the World Cup. However, that\u2019s not even the platform that has seen the most growth as his Instagram account was able to grow much more exponentially. It\u2019s worth mentioning that his Instagram was actually one of his only platforms that weren\u2019t hacked following his victory at the World Cup. Both his Twitch and Twitter were hacked but Bugha was able to go onto Instagram to let people know it wasn\u2019t him posting suspect tweets from his account. Bugha’s phone and social media accounts have been compromised. We are aware of the situation and are working to regain control. \u2013 Sentinels Management \u2014 SEN Bugha :airplane:\ufe0f NY (@bugha) July 29, 2019 A tweet from GFUEL\u2019s partnership manager, Bugha\u2019s social media spiked at least 60,000 followers across four major platforms. Twitter: +165,084 – Instagram: +235,000 – Twitch: +63,556 – YouTube: +161,291 – These numbers were accurate as of 9:27 AM EST so we expect them to be even higher now. In the midst of this major growth, Bugha received the elusive verification check mark too. .@bugha’s added digital footprint less than 24 hours after winning the world cup Twitter: +165,084 Instagram: +235,000 Twitch: +63,556 YouTube: +161,291\u2014 Deathly \u2013 GFUEL (@DeathlyiAm) July 29, 2019 With all these numbers being so high, one has to wonder how many viewers he will bring in for his first Twitch stream since being named world champ. We\u2019ll just have to wait and see how many people he can bring in. For obvious reasons, we aren\u2019t counting his actual first stream since he was hacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite World Cup winner Bugha\u2019s social media presence explodes after victory Epic Games16-year-old Fortnite phenom Kyle \u2018Bugha\u2019 Giersdorf shocked the world by dominating the World Cup Solos tournament and gained thousands of fans across social media shortly after the event. The Sentinels player came into the tournament at just around 30,000 Twitter followers but after […]<\/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-74877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74877","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=74877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}