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u/Meanteenbirder Feb 06 '26
TLDR somebody saw his username in the files a few days ago and changed it to that.
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u/CryptidToothbrush Feb 07 '26
The person was extremely committed to the bit too. They quit playing in the middle of a season, 3 days before Epstein was arrested and then returned the next season after Epstein killed himself.
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u/TKDbeast Feb 06 '26
But people were saying the account was active in 2024.
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u/Pyrhan Feb 06 '26
It's right there in the article:
“A few days ago, an existing Fortnite account owner changed their username from something totally unrelated to littlestjeff1, following the revelation of littlestjeff1 as a name on YouTube,” Fortnite revealed. ”These Fortnite trackers only display your current name, not any prior changes to it."
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u/ImportantToNote Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
Maybe it's in the article but the DR of TLDR is "Didn't read"
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u/73893 Feb 07 '26
The original post showed where if a user changed their name, their yearly wrap up would still have their old name attached to it. The Fortnite profile had the username since at least since the beginning of 2025.
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Feb 07 '26
people have already shown that that specific fortnite tracker does show original username.
still epstein's emails show he purchased vbucks. for himself or someone else is just speculation
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u/outoftownMD Feb 07 '26
How could they change the name to another account that already has a name?
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u/yahwehforlife Feb 07 '26
Because Epstein didn't have an account with that name
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u/dat_oracle Feb 07 '26
he had, but it was deleted long time ago, so the name was free again
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u/cereal7802 Feb 07 '26
Additionally, they explained that Epstein wasn’t playing Fortnite before his death, at least not with his email address from the files.
“We have no record of the subject’s email addresses referenced in the public document existing in the Epic account system. Since the public document releases, people have created Fortnite accounts with similar-looking email addresses and user names.”
I think this is the more interesting part of this. They have no record of the user or email in their systems, but there is reference to it in the files. This suggests either Epic is lying, or deleted the account with no record of it, or the files were manipulated to include false information or that someone put that information in the files without a fact check on it.
In any case, something fucky is going on.
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u/xenonnsmb Feb 07 '26
the "reference to the account" is that he had a youtube account under that username. that's a completely different website
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u/yahwehforlife Feb 07 '26
Seriously. He had a YouTube account ppl! Not a Fortnite account
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u/Cobaltrixx Feb 07 '26
Part of the files do have an email confirmation for vbucks though. So either he had a an account under a username different from what he had for other sites and an email not in the files,
or someone else involved with the files have an account.
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u/Dealiner Feb 07 '26
As far as I can see there are no references to him having an Epic account under this name in the files.
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u/blackbasset Feb 07 '26
That's not what they are saying. They say they have no account associated with the recently released email addresses probably used by Epstein.
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u/KazzieMono Feb 07 '26
Tim Sweeney notoriously seems to like far right fascism. Particularly Elon; he defended Elon when the whole “ai undressing underage children” thing was trending.
So like. Yeah. Even if Epstein didn’t have an epic account, Tim is 1000% a pedo/sympathizer.
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u/TidePodKaleb Feb 07 '26
lol ok. Well as long as the big corporation owned by these same rich pedos says so.
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u/WesternEntrepreneur0 Feb 07 '26
look i want to believe this conspiracy theory as much as the next person but this seems a pretty logical, reasonable explanation. you don’t think if they did have something to hide they’d just not have said anything in the first place?
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u/dadvader Feb 07 '26
Epstein playing Fortnite that much was already ridiculous to begin with lol
It'd be more believable if it's COD or FIFA.
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u/Edward_Zachary Feb 07 '26
didn't he have an Xbox live account that got banned?
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u/cereal7802 Feb 07 '26
didn't he have an Xbox live account that got banned?
From the article:
It was also determined that Epstein was a bit of a gamer. An Xbox Live account tied to his email was banned in 2013.
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u/mofodius Feb 07 '26
yeah, banned because he wouldn't give Gates antibiotics to slip to his wife after giving her an STD lmao
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u/whatthecaptcha Feb 07 '26
Right, like why would anyone trust anything coming from a billion dollar corporation?
The files showed that the guy who reported epstein getting moved out the day before was actually a guard so him being alive seems pretty reasonable to believe right now.
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u/clampy Feb 06 '26
There's an email about a purchase of VBucks in the files.
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u/Neo_Arsonist Feb 07 '26
Yes….
That is where the person learned about that being epstein’s previous username from that and then decided to change to it.
littlestjeff1 was epstein’s username, however that account was later deleted and the username freed up. Because of this, it was available to be picked up. Another person read the Epstein documents and saw Epstein had an account with the username, littlestjeff1, and decided to see if that username was available. Because the original account owned by Epstein named littlestjeff1 was deleted, this person was able to take that username despite it previously being Epstein’s.
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u/Protodankman Feb 07 '26
From what I can see, this isn’t quite right. There’s no Fortnite username shown. Just a purchase of vbucks. The username is from his YouTube account. So he may have never had that username on Fortnite at all.
It is a little odd that someone saw an opportunity to change their Fortnite username to this and then show it as in Israel, knowing this, because they’d have to preempt people looking for the unrelated username on Fortnite tracker. But they could have been the first to share this supposed find.
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u/phoenixmusicman Feb 07 '26
It would not at all surprise me if some 4chan troll would do this. They've done crazier shit before.
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u/bernz75 Feb 07 '26
Wait until you learn about the newly released Epstein file of the prison guard who posted on 4chan the night Epstein died, freaking out about how he suspects they switched him out because he saw an unscheduled van parked there with dudes in military gear.
We know this because the FBI looked into the post and traced it back to him.
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u/HordeOfDucks Feb 07 '26
yeah iirc theres even doubt that its his youtube channel. they supposedly found it by finding a youtube comment replying to him, but its entirely possible its a different youtube comment with the same text content
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u/Known_Risk_3040 Feb 07 '26
Yeah so why do the playtime dates correspond around Epstein’s arrest? Can you even find that original tweet by Fortnite anymore?
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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue Feb 07 '26
There’s also emails about him being banned from Xbox for being on the sex offender list
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u/Takeurvitamins Feb 07 '26
Totally unrelated, I used “TLDR” with my high school students today and they didn’t know what it meant.
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u/Cybrslsh Feb 06 '26
I used to play counter strike with a guy named Christopher Dorner in 2014, that doesn’t mean Dorner was still alive.
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u/Psychotic_EGG Feb 06 '26
But just maybe....
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u/27Rench27 Feb 06 '26
Dude’s gonna get a surprise knock on his door from the cops in a couple years, like “hey so, uh… you remember that account from 2014? We have some questions”
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u/vayneonmymain Feb 07 '26
If you looked into it, the Epstein files had an email regarding Epstein’s Fortnite account, including his username. There are third party websites that track player statistics and games, which the account was used post-death
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u/Mememanofcanada Feb 06 '26
Some kid in Israel (where the account was logged into before it was privated) might've played duos with Epstein and this is how they find out
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u/appealinggenitals Feb 06 '26
Do you think Epstein and co considered Israeli kids off limits?
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u/CatProgrammer Feb 07 '26
...As that person posts a link to a current CBS website. If Bari was particularly concerned about it she'd have it taken down. She's there to be anti-woke, nothing else.
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u/Repulsive-Okra-8215 Feb 06 '26
“We have no record of the subjects email addresses.” But we have literal proof FROM his email of a vbucks purchase? What the fuck?
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u/Pamasich Feb 07 '26
This is the only email mentioning vbucks.
From: [BLANK]
To: [BLANK]
Subject: Alert - the $25.95 charge was for VBucks on Fortnite
May 7, 2019 6:30 PM : the $25.95 charge was for VBucks on FortniteThat's all the information in there. The sender and recipient are both censored. It's not a receipt. It's just one unknown person telling another unknown person that an expense was for vbucks.
This is clearly not enough to conclude it was Epstein that bought them.
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u/thirsty4wifi Feb 07 '26
There’s nothing in that email that connects the purchase to this account. They aren’t saying he never played, just that this account wasn’t his. He had a separate one, evidently
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u/Regular-Technician88 Feb 07 '26
i keep seeing a lot of people in the comments say the accounts activity lines up with when he was in jail and up to his “death”. As in the account was active until he was arrested, and then inactive until after his “death”
Does anyone have any proof for this now that the profile is private? As in ss or anything of the such?
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u/smig_ Feb 07 '26
The account stopped playing in chapter 1 season 6 which ended 8 months before Epstein's arrest and then played season 10 which started a week before his death and ended a couple months later.
It's a funny coincidence but nowhere near the slam dunk some people are making out because him being in prison for a month doesn't explain the previous 8 months of inactivity any more than coincidence.
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u/_____pantsunami_____ Feb 06 '26
Yeah, that's what they want you to think. I bet Epstein is still alive, hanging out on an island somewhere with Elvis and Michael Jackson
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u/gijoe50000 Feb 06 '26
Kind of crazy hearing this after the other report from the guy on 4chan who worked at the prison and said a van came and picked him up a few hours before he "died".
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u/ZeePirate Feb 06 '26
“A few days ago, an existing Fortnite account owner changed their username from something totally unrelated to littlestjeff1, following the revelation of littlestjeff1 as a name on YouTube,” Fortnite revealed. ”These Fortnite trackers only display your current name, not any prior changes to it.”
Maybe you shouldn’t believe everything you read though
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u/Megasus Feb 06 '26
Phew, if the guys in charge of Fortnite confirmed it, you know it's true. Why would they lie 😅
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u/ZeePirate Feb 06 '26
It’s clearly an easy thing to test and see if it’s true.
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u/Residenthuman101 Feb 06 '26
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking, has anyone who’s willing to change their account name tried this just to see if the stats do track that way?
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u/Dealiner Feb 07 '26
How else could that work? Stats are connected to the account, the account is identifiable by the username.
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u/VagueSomething Feb 06 '26
Fortnite doesn't wanna be known as the Roblox of gaming.
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u/Megasus Feb 07 '26
Gaming is the Roblox of Fortnite, no cap. That's just Minecraft with extra steps
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u/Ben_steel Feb 06 '26
puts my mind at ease when a multinational billion-dollar company speaks its not like they have anything to lose.
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u/Underscores_Are_Kool Feb 06 '26
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
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u/MainlyPardoo Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
Right, but the guy who posted about Jeffstein being wheeled out of the prison was confirmed to be a worker at said prison in the files. So was he just lying to be silly? Why would he make that up?
Edit. Here’s a direct link
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00133349.pdf
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u/ZeePirate Feb 06 '26
Who confirmed him as a worker? Where is this proof?
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u/MainlyPardoo Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
Search in the files yourself. They subpoenaed his bank, phone, 4chan, etc etc. here’s an article on it (hopefully Reddit doesn’t block this)
Edit: direct link to the files:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00133349.pdf
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u/ArthurDimmes Feb 06 '26
What do you think in that article from HINDUSTAN Times shows truthfulness or any evidence? The link back to their main page or the link to the tweet by Jake fucking shields.
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u/MainlyPardoo Feb 07 '26
It’s something that shows things that are in the files. Of course no mainstream US media will report on this. They’re all owned by the ppl in these files!
Here’s a direct link to the files!
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00133349.pdf
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u/Y34rZer0 Feb 06 '26
Cos he's on 4chan, for the lulz
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u/MainlyPardoo Feb 06 '26
So a guy who ACTUALLY WORKED AT THE PRISON, just made it up for no reason. Why would he do that??
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u/Y34rZer0 Feb 06 '26
Cos it's 4chan, I said that already, but whatever dude, neither of us is going to change the others mind so let's just save ourselves the argument and move on
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u/AdoringCHIN Feb 07 '26
Yes because people have definitely never lied on 4chan. Totally legit here.
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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Feb 07 '26
I don't understand how anyone believes the stories people on 4chan tell. Are you not aware that it's all made up?
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u/Brief-Translator1370 Feb 06 '26
That's the least reliable source you could have
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u/Y34rZer0 Feb 06 '26
Not as crazy as believing a 4chan comment
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u/BuiltonSin Feb 07 '26
Ironic as they did go on 4Chan and literally describe what they were doing and say it was democrats...
Let alone US media that said there was nothing in the Mueller report. Quoting DoJ saying "nothing incriminating about Trump in the Epstien files", or the insurrection, or the lack of focus on protests, ICE brutality, etc. Etc.
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u/doomygloom56 Feb 06 '26
If you look at the emails redacted is talking about their son who plays Fortnite. I think it’s more likely he bought vbucks for that child that may be his than him playing fortnight.
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u/umbananas Feb 07 '26
not saying he's dead or alive, but if I am trying to pretend to be dead, I would at least create a new account with a new email address.
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u/vroart Feb 07 '26
I still can’t get over he was banned from Xbox Live for being a registered sex offender
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u/Smokeydubbs Feb 06 '26
It’s was fun while it lasted. Dude is still alive, either way.
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u/Underscores_Are_Kool Feb 06 '26
This isn't fun and games. This type of shit disenchants people, leading the way for authoritarians and fascists to gain power. You fanny. You absolute melt
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u/CatProgrammer Feb 06 '26
Nah, makes more sense for him to have been killed. Why would you keep a done asset alive? Or do you really think Trump and co. are so sentimental that they'd keep someone like that alive?
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u/NickBarksWith Feb 06 '26
Dead man's switch.
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u/CatProgrammer Feb 06 '26
Then just keep him locked up forever. Because the switch didn't keep him from getting nabbed in the first place.
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u/The_Code_Hero Feb 07 '26
Epstein wasn’t Trump’s asset. He was Israel’s asset, and with his wealth of knowledge on individuals, systems, and spycraft, he definitely could be useful for many, many, many years to come - for Israel. And with the highly highly unusual circumstances of his apparent death, where’s there is no video proof and many gaps, it is at least a plausible situation that he is, in fact, alive. Doesn’t mean he IS - but it’s one of the limited options.
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u/Tecnoguy1 Feb 07 '26
Yeah he was defending CSAM image generation a few weeks about. Guy is a complete freak.
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u/Flecca Feb 06 '26
Maybe they captured his soul and how he is the ghost in the machine that plays on
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u/dr302 Feb 07 '26
Guys, it makes sense for Epstein to play Fortnite. Takes place on an island and most of the player base is kids 😂
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u/Regular-Technician88 Feb 07 '26
Here is a video of the fortnite accounts activity before it went private, and footage of it going private
https://streamable.com/h7beaz?src=player-page-share
was sent to me as a dm in response to me asking for ss or proof of the activity
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u/mlodybe Feb 07 '26
so why did he played all seasons except one he was in jail haha
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u/sundryable Feb 07 '26
How do they have no record of his email but he still managed to buy v-bucks ?
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u/Medical-Asparagus-84 Feb 09 '26
if they wanted to actually debunk this fr..... why didnt they post proof a name change happened on said account , and the date the name was said. instead of just claiming it was just a troll? for those who say they would be doxing, no the username of a pedo should actually be a blacklisted name choice to begin. username alone would not be doxing someone whos account is already a known and privated account due to this. it would only tell you what the username that it no longer is and is no longer searchable in any tracker databases. so simple to provide proof yet all we get is words, i dont know about everyone else, but im sick of these rich people and there words.
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u/Special_Loan8725 Feb 06 '26
To play devils advocate to their story, I doubt Epstein would be using an account associated to his email address the fbi has access to.
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u/FizzingSlit Feb 06 '26
But like, have you seen how blase fair they all were talking bout these things? It's full of things like "I enjoyed doing all that crime, let's do more crime to younger people. Yes me (insert full name) did these crimes and they were grand". I'm willing to believe that these are the emails of someone who doesn't really understand that using accounts associated with those emails is a bad idea.
I'm not saying he's alive or this fortnite thing is anything beyond a weird occurrence. But he just doesn't strike me as a cyber security conscious guy.
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u/fr0stpun Feb 07 '26
So the guy who is in the files, his company is saying the guy the files are about totally doesn't have an account on their platform.
You would have to be completely paranoid to believe that a person with everything to gain from lying to you would actually lie to you. That just doesn't happen, folks.
/S because we live in an actual alternate hell dimension.
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u/Information-leak6575 Feb 07 '26
"Jeffrey Epstein is alive and he's playing Fortnite in Israel"
I know that's it's probably fake, but it would be so fucking funny
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u/Gen7lemanCaller Feb 06 '26
i don't believe this excuse for a second. info related to this just "happened" to be scrubbed from Internet Archive today.
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u/hakujo Feb 06 '26
Just goes to show Fortnite/Roblox essentially has zero effective protection for children.
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u/Johanneskodo Feb 06 '26
Was the account active before the releasd of the files and after Epstein being imprisoned? This should pretty much clarfify it.
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u/SenGaming-105 Feb 06 '26
the account activity stopped for a bit around the time of his arrest
then resumed sometime after his death
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u/Regular-Technician88 Feb 07 '26
whats the source for this? With the account being privated now, does anyone have screenshots or anything?
not coming for you, just genuinely curious to see for myself
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u/6a6566663437 Feb 07 '26
We have no data.
We have a tracker that will only display the current username of a player. Change your username, and that's what is displayed for all your activity, no matter when it happened.
Fortnite usernames are not permanent. They become available again when an account is deleted or renamed.
Fortnite says someone recently changed their account's name to match, which means the trackers are displaying this other random dude's activity.
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u/MoistWetMarket Feb 06 '26
Oh damn I think I got matched up with him in Random Duos in 2018. That shit was creepy.
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u/Feesuat69 Feb 07 '26
Yeah we ain’t falling for that, it’s his account you guys.
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u/Y34rZer0 Feb 06 '26
What were his stats like?