TheGrefg is the latest creator to receive his own Icon Series skin in Fortnite.
He joins an elite cast of content creators and streamers who have been immortalized in Fortnite with their own skin.
Grefg Reveals Skin To 2.3 Million Viewers
TheGrefg revealed his own Fortnite Icon Series skin live on Twitch to over 2 million viewers that tuned in live.
The Spanish content creator broke the concurrent viewership by tripling the previous record.
Ninja set the previous record in 2018 when he played Fortnite with Drake and Travis Scott to 616,000 viewers.
Who Is TheGrefg?
TheGrefg is a Spanish content creator, streaming on Twitch and creating video content for YouTube.
He has 6.2 million followers on Twitch and 16 million subscribers on YouTube, making him one of the most popular content creators in the world.
TheGrefg is best known for playing shooting games, such as Fortnite, as well as many other shooters and FPS games.
Speaking primarily in Spanish, it is understandable that a lot of gamers haven't heard from him outside of Spanish speaking countries.
But TheGrefg has dominated the market when it comes to the Spanish speaking community, regularly getting millions of views per video.
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Fortnite Icon Series
The Fortnite Icon Series is an elite series of skins that recognize and immortalize content creators, streamers, musicians, and other figures in the entertainment world.
Fortnite creators Ninja, Loserfruit, and Lachlan have received their own Icon Series skins.
Now the Spanish creator, TheGrefg, joins the group.
Community Reaction
With such a monumental occasion, the gaming community has shared many tweets of support to TheGrefg, congratulating him on his achievement.
TheGrefg Skin
During the stream, TheGrefg announced that Epic Games were sending him the skin to reveal live, after originally only intended to show off a promotional image.
TheGrefg revealed a promotional image of his new Icon Series skin.
The skin also comes with a pickaxe and emote, as well as a second style.
What It Looks Like In-Game
Eventually Epic Games sent TheGrefg the promotional video for the skin to showcase to his audience.
This is the video that Epic Games posts on social media and in-game to promote a cosmetic.
In the video we can see TheGrefg's skin using his emote.
When Is The Skin Available
The skin will be coming to the Item Shop on Saturday January 16th, it will be on the rotation heading into January 17th.
Deathrun Course
To celebrate the release of TheGrefg's new Icon Series skin, Epic Games has also released a TheGrefg themed Deathrun Creative map for players to jump in and play.
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