Fans have been waiting anxiously to see what comes next following the Fortnite Season 10 The End event yesterday. But instead of the highly-anticipated launch of Fortnite Chapter 2, Epic Games has been live-streaming the black hole created as a result of the Season 10 event involving multiple rockets that apparently destroyed the Fortnite map.
Fans at first assumed that this was only a brief intermission that will pave the way for Season 11. But the downtime has continued since yesterday, and fans have been keeping their fingers crossed in hopes that it will end soon enough.
Epic Games also deleted every tweet on their official Fortnite Twitter account, although the posts on their Facebook and Instagram accounts were not affected.
Soon after the streaming of the black hole began yesterday, fans started reporting that mysterious numbers were popping up around the black hole. The numbers followed in the sequence listed below:
11 146 15 62 87 14 106 2 150 69 146 15 36 2 176 8 160 65
Fortnite event right now numbers showing up on black hole #fortnite pic.twitter.com/TSavxmEZBF
— Fort_news_foryou (@FortForyou) October 13, 2019
Latest update on #fortnite now the number 87! @FortniteGame pic.twitter.com/yrR0PVdsMX
— Fort_news_foryou (@FortForyou) October 13, 2019
Now the number 14! What does this mean….@FortniteGame #Fortnite pic.twitter.com/a73iVKyfLO
— Fort_news_foryou (@FortForyou) October 13, 2019
Since the game went into downtime and the numbers started popping up, fans have been proposing all sorts of fanciful theories to explain them.
Looks like the numbers we are seeing now are called "Spooky Numbers" in the files..
— HYPEX – Fortnite Leaks & News (@HYPEX) October 13, 2019
Although some fans think that the numbers don’t mean anything and that Epic Games is only trolling fans as part of their promotion campaign ahead of the upcoming season, other creative fans have come up with several suggestions.
This is no joke – @FortniteGame are FULLY trolling us all.
If you type the numbers "11 146 15 62 google maps" in Google and click the first link, you get a street view of a crab rave.
LMAO??? pic.twitter.com/a1ADbXdxoH
— Jon (@MrDalekJD) October 13, 2019
There are currently many theories about what the numbers mean.
Looks like the numbers we are seeing now are called "Spooky Numbers" in the files..
— HYPEX – Fortnite Leaks & News (@HYPEX) October 13, 2019
Fortnite fan @Thooming pointed out that lining up the numbers with the audio from the mysterious Visitor tapes created a message: that is, if you take the 11th word, 146th word, 15th word, 62nd word… and so on, in that order, it spells out the message below:
“I was not alone, Others are outside the loop. This was not calculated. The zero point is now inevitable.”
The meaning of the numbers has ACTUALLY been found!
If you get the numbers and assign them to a word in the transcript of the Visitor tapes, you get the following sentences:
"I was not alone."
"Others were outside the loop."(via @Thooming) pic.twitter.com/C7E7SIVI7Q
— Fortnite News (@FortniteBR) October 13, 2019
I was not alone.
Others were outside the loop.
This was not calculated.
The nothing is now inevitable.#Fortnite pic.twitter.com/SJGoCSpR3P
— Fortnite News (@FortniteBR) October 14, 2019
The Visitor is the being that arrived with the meteor and launched the rocket that created the multiple rifts, which finally resulted in the black hole.
Others believe that the number 11 is a direct reference to Season 11 that comes after The End event that concluded Fortnite Season X.
Meanwhile, some data miners and Fortnite sleuths, including @Lucas7yoshi, claim to have mined evidence that The End event will continue until Tuesday.
BREAKING:
I have independtly confirmed the authenticity of a discovery that points to "The-End" lasting until Tuesday, 6AM EST
This is not stuck in stone, this info is from https://t.co/0TDeMk7Bda code. pic.twitter.com/ElnNFKppWn
— Lucas7yoshi // leeaks (@Lucas7yoshi) October 13, 2019
this isn't fake or modified but it could mean literally nothing.
considering the fact they changed it from tuesday 6am to thursday 4am at a whim then who can even tell at this point
— Lucas7yoshi // leeaks (@Lucas7yoshi) October 14, 2019
For anyone who references Fortnite China's event, they do everything on that version of the game differently, like they haven't even done their event yet. Never take anything from Fortnite China as evidence of anything for Fortnite everywhere else
— Lucas7yoshi // leeaks (@Lucas7yoshi) October 14, 2019
But many fans have expressed doubt, saying they don’t believe that Fortnite would keep fans waiting that long.