If there's one thing Roblox players seem to love as of late, it's brainrot. You've got the Plants vs. Zombies-inspired brainrot game, Brainrot Evolution, and one of the biggest brainrot games going, Steal A Brainrot. If that sentence has you feeling about 150 years old, just bear with me, because it's only going to get worse from here.
Steal A Brainrot—a Roblox custom game where you hoard collectible meme characters in exchange for virtual currency, of which PC Gamer evergreen writer Kara Philips said "sensory overload is a complete understatement"—has filed a complaint against Stealing Brainrots, a Fortnite custom game which the Steal a Brainrot team at Spyder Games alleges is "a copy."
The suit states Stealing Brainrots "copies [Steal A Brainrot's] protectable expressions," giving examples like "user interface elements … in-game objects, artwork, level design, animations, design aesthetics," and increasingly nebulous stuff like "the selection and coordination of game elements, colors, and shapes."
I suppose Spyder Games takes issue with the fact that it's a brainrot theft game specifically, but as Aftermath spotted in its report on this, there are much larger clones in Fortnite. Steal A Brainrot's legal representative, attorney Adam Starr, told Aftermath they had no choice but to act: "We always prefer to resolve these matters cooperatively, but when necessary we will take appropriate legal steps to safeguard our IP.”
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