Summary
Creator Portal thumbnail similarity warning is triggered by adding any text to the thumbnail, even random text on a plain white image.
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Unreal Editor for Fortnite
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Publishing
Steps to Reproduce
- Open the Creator Portal and prepare a Fortnite Creative / UEFN island for publishing.
- Upload a promotional thumbnail without text.
- Confirm that no similarity warning appears.
- Add any text to the thumbnail.
- Upload the new thumbnail.
- The similarity warning appears.
- Test with a plain white image containing only random text.
- The same similarity warning still appears.
Expected Result
The similarity warning should only appear when the thumbnail is actually similar to an existing promotional image, not simply because text or logo-style text was added.
Observed Result
The Creator Portal shows a promotional thumbnail similarity warning whenever text is added to the thumbnail.
This happens even when the text is random, placed differently, smaller, and written with an unusual font. It also happens on a plain white image with only random text, which is not my real thumbnail.
My real thumbnail does not trigger the warning when there is no text.
Platform(s)
Creator Portal on web browser
Windows 11
Google Chrome
Island Code
Not published yet / no public island code
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Additional Notes
The island has not been published yet. This issue happens before the final publishing/submission step.
I am reporting this because publishing with this warning may affect Discover visibility, even though the thumbnail itself appears to be unique when no text is added.
The issue seems related to automated text/logo-style similarity detection rather than actual thumbnail similarity.