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After the holiday tragedy, Travis Scott’s “Out West” emoji was removed from the Fortnite store
Travis Scott’s “Out West” emoji is currently not available in Fortnite because of an incident that occurred at the performer’s Astroworld festival in Houston last week, which resulted in 8 deaths and many injuries.
Epic Games seems to have disabled the daily section of the Fortnite item store to stop selling Travis Scott’s “Out West” emoji. Out West is the icon series emoji introduced to Fortnite in August 2020, which contains music clips from songs of the same name.According to the post Reddit, The emoji was briefly sold in the Daily section of the store on November 7, but disappeared a few hours later because Epic disabled the entire Daily section of the Item Store.
The Fortnite Status Twitter account confirmed that the “Daily” section was deliberately disabled, but did not mention Scott or the name of the emoji.
As we all know, the “daily” part of the item store has been banned. This is intentional, and the “Daily” part will be returned the next time the item store is refreshed. pic.twitter.com/rc6Kqh7qoWNovember 8, 2021
An Epic Games representative declined to comment further, but this time makes the connection between the two seem extremely likely: the Out West emoji appeared in the daily part of November 7th, probably to coincide with the Astroworld festival, which is The eight-person concert on the second day of the concert was killed in a surge in the crowd during Scott’s performance.A sort of CNN The report said that more than 300 people were receiving treatment in a field hospital set up near the festival.
Houston Police Chief Troy Fenner said that he met with Scott before the event, during which he expressed “concerns about public safety” during the event. “I ask Travis Scott and his team to cooperate with HPD in all events on the weekend and pay attention to his team’s social media information in any unplanned events,” Finner tweeted. “This meeting is brief and respectful. It is an opportunity for me as the police chief to share my concerns about public safety.”
After the police declared the festival a “mass casualty incident,” Scott was criticized for continuing to perform for more than 30 minutes.According to a Yahoo News According to the report, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Penha said that the statement was issued at about 9:38 pm, but Scott continued to perform until about 10:15 pm.
Scott issued a statement on Twitter saying that he was “completely collapsed” by the incident and was “committed to working with the Houston community to heal and support families in need.”
“The Houston Police Department has my full support because they will continue to investigate this tragic loss of life,” he said.
Scott founded Astronomy Festival, Named after Six Flags Astronomical World Park, which closed in 2018. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event was cancelled in 2020. Instead, Scott organized a large-scale and successful astronomy event in Fortnite, for which he earned about 20 million U.S. dollars, including merchandise sales. The live event will return in 2021, attracting approximately 50,000 attendees, but the second day of the planned two-day event was cancelled after death.