Doja Cat’s unexpected tweet about Apex Legends sent the community into a frenzy, with community icons ImperialHal and NiceWigg jumping in to respond.
Rapper and fashionista Doja Cat had the Apex Legends community talking after her unexpected tweet about the game. In the music space Doja Cat is famous for genre-blending music, with "Say So" being her first viral hit in 2020, which took TiKTok by storm.
Well-known in gaming circles for her love of Fortnite, Doja Cat’s unexpected Apex tweet quickly racked up close to a million impressions, which was enough to summon the big names in Apex royalty to her mentions.
It's not the first time a music celebrity has been connected with Apex Legends. Grammy-winning Post Malone not only streamed Apex Legends and queued up with iiTzTimmy but even got his own game mode, Three Strikes. With the NA Apex Open in New Orleans at the end of April, imagine if this was just a next-level marketing ploy?
Doja Cat tweets about Apex Legends, community loses their minds
"I always feel flattered when people recommend Apex Legends to me, as if I can even f**king keep up with that," said Dojo Cat on X.
The tweet sparked a wave of replies. ImperialHal replied, “Zer0 handles me every day, he can teach you the ways,” while NiceWigg saw an opportunity to recruit:
No better way to learn Apex than with the B Stream watch parties. MrGreekGod thoughts?
Even former #1 Pred turned ALGS Host WeThePeople went for it, leading to this hilarious response by Twitter user skywordswored.
Doja Cat was clearly reading replies, as she responded to one user's suggestion to play Marvel Rivals. "Ah yes a game that only makes me go crosseyed."
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Is Dojo Cat a gamer?
Yes, Doja Cat is a gamer most publicly for Fortnite, which she has streamed multiple times on her Twitch channel, which has over 450,000 followers. She even has her own Fortnite Emote "Kiss me More", her song in collaboration with SZA.
"I like to play Fortnite, and I know that I said that I don't but I do, and now I'm addicted to it. It's all I want to do" said Doja Cat in a video interview. "I don't like the person that I've become because of it."
For an example of exactly what Doja Cat means, here's a clip selected from her Fortnite stream on March 2024.
She also made headlines as a Fortnite fan in 2024 for her passionate tweets following the launch of Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2, which introduced water bending as part of the Last of the Airbender collab.
"Fortnite wouldn't be so f**king embarrassing if they made lobbies where people with actual aim skills and fps experience didn't deal with losers using f**king water bending and chains of Hades," said Doja Cat in a now deleted tweet.
Imagine if she streamed Apex Legends, the content would be absolutely glorious. Plus based on the replies to her tweet about Apex Legends, there's plenty of people willing to play with Doja Cat. Even ImperialHal himself.
