World record holding Fortnite player \u2018RizArt\u2019 admits lying about his age Epic GamesFortnite world-record holding professional player RizArt has admitted to faking his age in order to gain YouTube subscribers. RizArt is still the current holder of the most kills to be recorded on Fortnite\u2019s Solos game mode, having racked up 34 eliminations by himself in a single session last November. The Japanese player\u2019s YouTube channel now has over 188,000 subscribers \u2013 at the time of writing \u2013 after claiming to be just 12 years of age. However, in a recent video he claimed to be \u201ctruly ashamed\u201d about misleading his followers for such a long time. \u201cI\u2019m very sorry to have not been telling everyone the truth,\u201d he said. \u201cI am truly ashamed for having lied to all of you.\u201d RizArt stated that he\u2019s actually 16-years-old and in his first year of high school, despite his fans thinking that he was still in elementary. Read More: Fortnite Season 7 Week 10 challenges and how to complete them \u2013 Expedition Outposts, Shooting gallery locations – People were clearly shocked that somebody they believed to be so young could go on to break Fortnite Battle Royale world records, and the pro player \u2013 who currently plays for esports team Crazy Raccoon \u2013 decided not to correct his followers, who presumed he was younger than he was. \u201cAs my subscribers grew in numbers, I kept worrying about how I had to come clean,\u201d he added. \u201cBut it became a situation in which I couldn\u2019t tell the truth.\u201d RizArt is going to be competing at the upcoming ESL Katowice Royale 2019 in March, where he\u2019ll go up against the likes of Turner \u2018Tfue\u2019 Tenney, Dennis \u2018Cloak\u2019 Lepore, Team Liquid\u2019s Noah \u2018Vivid\u2019 Wright and more. \u201cFor this long period of time I haven\u2019t been able to tell my viewers the truth, and for that I am deeply sorry\u201d he concluded, before promising to donate three months\u2019 worth of his YouTube earnings to charity. Whether or not RizArt\u2019s revelation will impact his YouTube following remains to be seen, but it will not affect his eligibility to compete at tournaments, as there is no age restriction for Fortnite competitions in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
World record holding Fortnite player \u2018RizArt\u2019 admits lying about his age Epic GamesFortnite world-record holding professional player RizArt has admitted to faking his age in order to gain YouTube subscribers. RizArt is still the current holder of the most kills to be recorded on Fortnite\u2019s Solos game mode, having racked up 34 eliminations by himself […]<\/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-78042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78042","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=78042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}