They mentioned on twitter this has been resolved.
We are running in countless issues still and the calibration doesn’t make sense.
Wrongly closed post:
Unreal Editor for Fortnite
Publishing
Work
Rejected for similarity reasons
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Below variant is rejected, because of the banana peely soccer player. If we remove the soccer player entirely, it passes the check.
Below variant is accepted, since it’s no banana peely skin
We tried the following ‘kick’ character replacements as well, but they all get rejected.
We basically can not use ANY reference to the fishstick skin / banana peely skin in our thumbnails anymore. Which is definitely a calibration issue with the detection AI.
Same here! I made a map, and when I uploaded the thumbnail for the first time, it worked. I wanted to slightly tweak the thumbnail by making it brighter, and I got the error “thumbnail is too similar to another player’s island.” Epic doesn’t realize it’s MY thumbnail! Please fix the AI Epic. Does everyone notice this all happened around 25 days ago? It’s that new update. Has anyone found a solution to the issue? 
