Alysa Liu has finally got her own Fortnite emote after publicly asking developers to add her to the hit game.
Earlier this year, Alysa Liu won two gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics in the Team and Women’s Single figure skating competitions. During an interview shortly afterwards, she was asked if she’d rather win another gold medal or be the best Fortnite player in the world. “Is neither an option? It would be no fun if you were the best Fortnite player in the world, because you’d just win all the games and that’s kinda boring.”
“I would love a Fortnite skin [though],” she added. Shortly afterwards, the official Fortnite Instagram account commented “champions make big plays” on Liu’s victory post.
In a recent update, game developers Epic Games added an official Alysa Liu emote to Fortnite. The emote is available to buy via the game’s virtual store and is based on her viral skating routine to PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson’s hit ‘Stateside’.
In a video shared on social media, Alysa Liu has called her Fortnite emote “so cute”.
Alysa Liu reacts to her own Fortnite Emote “Stateside” (song by PinkPantheress) pic.twitter.com/YsAZ2mqlNc
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Earlier this year, Chappell Roan got a trio of Fortnite skins when she headlined Festival, after publicly asking for one in an interview the year before. In an email to fans, Roan wrote: “I do not cry a lot and me having a Fortnite skin had me in tears. It just looks so awesome.”
Following Roan’s inclusion in Fortnite, fellow pop star Madison Beer has also asked Epic Games for her own in-game skin. “Let’s get serious. Stop changing things that we love about Fortnite. Keep it original and give me a skin, please!”
Last month, Alysa Liu teamed up with a number of other celebrities with Asian ancestry (Hudson Williams, Lola Tung and Megan Skiendiel) for Laufey’s ‘Madwoman’ music video. “Growing up in Iceland, I never saw anyone that looked like me, aside from my twin sister at all. So for me to join forces with all of these artists that do different things on such a high level with so much poise, it just felt magical,” Laufey told NME. “We got to spend the day slapping each other with fish and dancing. I often get mixed up with some of the girls in the video or we’ll get tagged as each other on red carpet photos, so it was funny to come together in this world where you don’t usually see Asian faces. It was the best hangout of my life. There was so much Asian representation behind the camera as well and I feel so lucky we could pull it off. Representation is so important, but you need to take active steps towards it. It’s not something that just happens naturally.”
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