Summary

  • A man from Indiana tattooed the Fortnite logo on his forehead, with the video of his new ink quickly going viral on social media.
  • Despite some doubts about its authenticity, the video garnered millions of views and likes, as well as thousands of reactions ranging from mild amusement to utter bewilderment.
  • The man and his wife subsequently appeared in another social media video getting revenge tattoos for each other.

An Indiana man got the Fortnite logo tattooed on his forehead. Although there are some doubts about its authenticity, the video of him getting inked quickly went viral on social media, adding to the list of unusual Fortnite homages that have surfaced online since the game's release.

The cultural and industry impact of Epic's battle royale hit can hardly be overstated, having recently been underlined by the revelation that Google offered an eye-watering amount of money to bring Fortnite to the Play Store within a year of the game's massively successful 2017 launch. Even today, Fortnite is still enjoyed by over 230 million people on a monthly basis.

And while many of those players might categorize themselves as hardcore Fortnite fans, the subset of that demographic dedicated enough to get a tattoo inspired by the game is plausibly much smaller. Smaller still is the number of people who have such ink on their foreheads, though it is ostensibly larger than zero. That's according to a recent TikTok clip posted by one Memphis Manco, a tattoo artist based out of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The 23-second video features Manco's father, Donny, getting the game's logo inked on his forehead, immediately above his right eyebrow, only to later conclude that his wife isn't going to be pleased when she sees him. "Your mom's gonna [sic] kill me," he says to his son several times during the clip.

The tattooing video amassed 16 million views, 1.3 million likes, and 90,600 shares within 48 hours of emerging on TikTok. It also prompted over 13,000 comments featuring reactions that ranged from amusement and calls for the man to get his own Fortnite skin to complete and utter bewilderment.

Your mom's gonna kill me.

Some of the people chiming in on the video expressed doubts about its authenticity, noting how the end result looked a bit too clean for a freshly finished tattoo. For clarity, tattoos often look blurry and even slightly smeared while healing. However, the star of the clip then appeared in another one of his son's TikTok posts two days later, with the Fortnite logo still adorning his forehead, covered with a plastic foil wrap that's used to minimize the chances of infections due to bacteria and germs getting under the skin while the tattoo is healing.

His wife, Sarah Jane Collins Manco, is also featured in the second clip. And while she didn't use the video as an opportunity to outright comment on her husband's Fortnite forehead logo, the fact that the video itself depicts the couple getting revenge tattoos for each other probably says more about her opinion on the matter than words alone could.

Source: Donny Manco / Facebook, Sarah Jane Collins Manco / Facebook

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Fortnite
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September 26, 2017
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T for Teen - Diverse Content: Discretion Advised, In-Game Purchases, Users Interact
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Epic Games
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Epic Games
Engine
Unreal Engine 5
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Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op
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