Epic Games has just confirmed that Apu's strange appearance in a Fortnite in-game photograph was an unintentional error and that a fix is on the way soon. About a day after Fortnite's Simpsons mini-season went live, some fans noticed that a photograph found in the Moe's Tavern POI had erroneously given the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon a yellow skin tone.
The in-game Fortnite photograph is a reference to the Season 5 Simpsons episode 'Homer's Barbershop Quartet,' where the titular family man, Barney Gumble, Principal Skinner, and Apu form a singing group known as the Be Sharps. While Homer, Barney, and Skinner all have the correct skin and hair color in the Fortnite photo, Apu is depicted with yellow skin and light brown hair, which had some fans accusing Fortnite of "whitewashing" the character.
This Fortnite x Simpsons crossover issue was first discovered and posted to X by user @MemeManTweets, who shared a screenshot of the in-game photograph on November 2 with the caption, "Apu is probably not coming this season THEY ERASED HIM FROM THE BE SHARPS PORTRAIT IN MOE'S TAVERN." This fan also confirmed that the sequence of the original Season 5 episode that this Fortnite photograph...
