- Fortnite Season Five is in full swing,
and with every new season of the game
comes a brand new set of
emotes and dance moves
for us to unlock, buy, and play with.
As you probably all
know by now, Epic Games
loves taking real world
inspiration for their
Fortnite dance moves and emotes.
So today, we're going to
be taking a look at all the
Season Five emotes in real life.
Rumor has it that if you like this video
and subscribe to Arcade Cloud,
Epic Games will immediately
turn you into an emote.
So don't forget to like and subscribe.
But no, I'm serious this time.
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Number 11: The Twist
The Twist is probably one
of the easiest dance moves
for pretty much anyone to do.
All you have to do is
put one foot out front
and twist your foot as
if you were putting out
a cigarette with your toes
while twisting your arms
from side to side.
That's, that's pretty
much all there is to it.
It's a pretty famous
move that has been used
in a whole ton of movies
and dance routines
since it was first
introduced in the late' 50s.
Inspired by the increase
in Rock and Roll music,
somehow this simple dance
actually became the first
worldwide dancing craze,
and even drew criticism
from people who thought it was somehow
a little too sexual.
Boy if they knew.
Number 10: Hula
Season Five of Fortnite
Battle Royale is taking place
in the height of summer.
And what's one of the
first things you think of
when it comes to summer?
Holidays in beautiful hot locations,
such as Hawaii, of course.
The Hula Dance has been added to Fortnite,
but believe it or not, the dance is one
with a long story.
It is a Polynesian
dance that was developed
in the Hawaiian Islands by
those that first settled there.
The Hula Dance has changed a lot
since its initial conception,
where it was first performed
with chants and traditional instruments,
(traditional hula music)
to something more like what
you see in Fortnite today.
Number Nine: Gentleman's Dab
In truth, the Gentleman's Dab
isn't really a dab at all.
It's more of a bow.
The really exaggerated
sort of bow that you would
expect from a stage
performer or a magician after
they had completed a great show.
But this bow, or Gentleman's
Dab, might actually
come straight from "The
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt".
During The Witcher 3, there
is a scene where a noble
is teaching Geralt how
to appropriately bow.
Leg extended, hand flat, chin to chest.
The Gentleman, what the
guy calls Geralt, must then
rehearse until he gets it right.
At the time, a whole
bunch of people made jokey
meme videos about Geralt actually dabbing
(loud buzzing)
instead of doing a bow.
I'm pretty sure that this meme is where
The Gentleman's Dab gets both its name
and its animation from, maybe.
But it's a good case.
I think.
Number Eight: You're Awesome
The splits are a pretty common dance move
for pretty much any dancer out there.
But no one had mastered
the splits quite as much
as the legendary James Brown,
and the You're Awesome
emote is just dripping
with all the flair of that
Atlantan singer, songwriter,
dancer, and musician.
He was most well-known
for his song, "I Got You".
Also known as, "I Feel Good".
(James Brown wails)
But has had many other hits beside that.
James Brown wasn't just well-known
for his singing, though.
He was known for his dancing flair,
and most importantly, his splits.
According to reports,
James Brown never used
a choreographer to teach
him his most famous moves.
He made them all up himself.
His splits move was said
to be Brown's ultimate
exclamation on movement.
It showed off his flexibility,
quickness, and strength.
The real trick isn't even
really the whole getting down
to the ground thing.
It was getting back up in a single pull
of the inner thigh without falling over.
The emote in Fortnite
displays the exact same style
and flair, so it was pretty obvious
where they got the idea from.
Number Seven: Swipe It
When we first saw the "Swipe
It" dance, we thought it had
finally happened.
Fortnite had finally added a
"Hotline Bling" Drake emote.
But the truth is, the
Swipe It emote had nothing
to do with Drake or the
Hotline Bling Dance at all.
The dance move actually
predates Drake's Hotline Bling
by an entire two years.
The dance is, in fact, taken
from the song "Milly Rock"
by the rapper, 2 Milly,
which was released in August 2014.
The moves are pretty similar, I guess.
They both use pretty
similar arm movements,
so it makes sense that
people might have thought
the Swipe It Dance was actually
the Hotline Bling dance.
But when you think about it properly,
you can tell this is the Milly Rock.
The arm movements are
nowhere near as exaggerated
as the Hotline Bling Dance,
and the character doesn't
duck down low like Drake
does in Hotline Bling.
An easy mistake to make.
But now you know the true origins
of The Swipe It Fortnite emote.
Your life is better now.
Number Six: Calculated
Fortnite loves putting memes
in their games in the form
of emotes, and it looks like
that habit is set to continue
with the fifth season of the game.
Calculated is pretty clearly a
take on the "Roll Safe" meme.
If you somehow don't know,
this meme has been taken
from the BBC Three web
series "Hood Documentary,"
in which the actor, Kayode Ewumi,
points to his head and smiles.
It's a pretty innocent act
but a year after the episode
initially released, it suddenly
became a widespread meme,
with people posting an image of the clip
alongside some pretty questionable logic.
In the Fortnite version of the meme,
the character does some quick math.
Two plus two equals four.
♪ [Big Shaq] Minus one,
that's three, quick maths ♪
Though I'm not exactly
sure what that has to do
with the original meme itself.
Number Five: The Breakdown
Breakdown Dance is a
complicated one to talk about.
Because, so far no one has managed to find
a reference for this
exact set of dance moves
in this sequence that the
emote performs them in.
But that's not to say
that the moves themselves
don't come from something in real life.
It's pretty clear that this emote uses
a whole bunch of break
dancing moves strung
into a single sequence.
There's no doubt that
eventually, someone will
come across some random
YouTube video of a break dancer
doing this exact set of moves,
but until that happens,
we don't truly know
the origin of this emote.
It could just be some random freestyling.
I don't know, I'm not the researcher.
I'm just the guy who says the words.
Number Four: Boogie Down
You might remember a couple of months ago,
Fortnite started up a competition
to find a brand new dance
to be added into the game.
This emote is called "Boogie Down",
because they have finally
added that contest-winning
dance into the game.
The dance move was submitted
by the account "@populotus"
on Twitter and it's
actually pretty awesome.
There's some sweet jumps
and a whole bunch of kicks.
It's basically a dance
that's filled with energy.
And you can see why it
ended up making the cut
for the Boogiedown contest.
It fits the manic energy
of Fortnite perfectly.
It must feel pretty crazy
for the guy who came up
with this dance to finally see it
perfectly recreated in the game.
That's cool.
Number Three: Flippin' Incredible
We've already had "Flippin' Sexy",
and now we've got "Flippin' Incredible."
Believe it or not, this
one doesn't have a direct
real life source, either,
but that's not to say
that the different moves in the emote
don't exist in the real world.
The first part of the emote
is obviously a back flip.
Anyone who is athletic
can pull one of those off.
It's the second half of the emote
that's much more interesting.
And that's the Usain Bolt-style pointing.
Like, come on, who else
could that be taken from?
It's obviously Usain Bolt.
Right, obviously.
Number Two: On The Hook
There's not really much to say about
the "On The Hook" emote.
It's pretty much just a guy fishing.
Something that tons of people do.
I could show you hundreds of
different videos of someone
casting their line and reeling in a fish
and it would give you a good idea
of what the "On The Hook"
emote was trying to do.
It's also a dance move.
You know, I don't know what
the dance move's called.
The Hook, Line, and Sinker Dance move?
Is that what that, I don't know.
But it's a dance move.
Number One: Storm Salutation
The "Storm Salutation" emote
is a reference to another emote
in another incredibly popular,
if completely different,
game series.
It's clearly a reference
to the Solaire of Astora
from the popular game
series, "Dark Souls".
Solaire of Astora showed
up in the very first
Dark Souls game in 2011
and has since gained
a pretty large fan base
because of his personality and quotes.
Lines like, "Praise the sun,"
and "Jolly cooperation,"
are well-known both in and out
of the Dark Souls community.
The Praise the Sun meme is
probably one of the most
well-known memes to have ever come
from the Dark Souls community.
And it has been replicated in Fortnite
with pretty much perfect accuracy.
Down to the sound that
plays and the arm movements
that your character
makes, there is no denying
what this could possibly be.
I guess now we all have to start saying,
"Salutations to the storm,"
or something like that, huh?
Probably not.
Well that was our video
on all of the Season Five
emotes in real life.
It's pretty crazy how Epic keeps managing
to bring out so many awesome
emotes into the game.
Even though we're already in
the middle of the fifth season.
You'd think that they would have
run out of ideas by now, right?
I mean, they do technically just steal
from other people, I guess.
What emote from today's
list did you like the most?
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