- One of the things that
keeps Fortnite Battle Royale
so fresh and fun is that
fact that Epic Games
are always adding new
content into the game.
Sometimes they add new
weapons, other times they
add new areas of the map.
But most often, they add
new skins and emotes.
What you might not have
realized, is that a lot
of those emotes are actually based
off of things in real life.
And in this video, we'll be taking a look
at the Top 10 Fortnite
dances in real life.
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and subscribe to Arcade Cloud,
Epic Games will actually
put your favorite dance
move into Fortnite next.
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Again it's all, you know.
It's whatevs, wha-, whatevs.
Number 10: Original Dance
Of all the dances in Fortnite
to have been based off
of something IRL, you might
not expect the original default
dance to be one of them.
I mean, who even uses the
original dance anymore, right?
Why would they take the effort
to base the original dance
off of something cool if
no one was going to use it
when other dances and emotes
came out in the future?
Well it turns out that
the original default dance
was actually based off of something.
And I guess someone on the Epic Games Team
that works on Fortnite
must be a pretty big fan
of the TV show "Scrubs".
The emote is actually called "Dance Moves"
and when you look at the both of them,
you can tell that the Fortnite
dance was basically taken
straight out the show "Scrubs".
The dance itself is taken
from Episode 9 of Season 5
of "Scrubs", which is an
episode called "My Half Acre".
It's all about J.D.
finding a new girlfriend
and Turk joining the Air Hospital band.
From the arm cross at the
end, to the other moves
in the dance, it is pretty
clear that the dance
Turk does, and the dance in Fortnite,
are pretty much exactly the same.
Now what you might not
have actually known,
is that Turk's dance
is already a reference
to something else completely.
In the dance, Turk actually
uses a whole bunch of moves
from the music video of
a song called "Poison"
by Bel Biv Devoe, which I
guess means that the default
dance is sort of a double
reference to both Turk in "Scrubs"
and that music video.
Poison. Poison, poison.
Number Nine: Take the L
The movie "It" from 2017 is remembered
for a whole number of reasons.
It's remembered for being
an awesome horror movie
based off of an awesome book.
It's remembered for having
some really talented
child actors that are
probably going to end up
being stars in the future.
It's even remembered as
having some pretty good
special effects.
Oh, and it's remembered
for that stupid dance
Pennywise the Clown does
towards the end of the movie.
Near the end, when he has
one of the kids trapped
in his evil lair, Pennywise
tries to spook them
with a really dumb dance.
He sort of bounces up
and down on the spot,
and his legs kicking out
at strange angles, and
his head's staying almost perfectly still.
It's a dance that was
first turned into a meme,
and then eventually, turned
into a Fortnite emote.
The Fortnite dance is
pretty much exactly the same
as the dance that Pennywise
does in the movie "It"
with only one major difference:
in the movie, Pennywise
has both of his arms down,
doing a kind of up and
down pumping motion.
But in the Fortnite version of the dance,
only one arm does that.
The other is held up
with your hand held up
in a pretty clear "L", which is where
the dance gets its name from.
What better way to taunt your enemies
than combining a loser sign with a dance
that was first done by a murderous clown
from another dimension?
Number Eight: Fresh
If you haven't seen "The
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air",
then I kind of wonder what
you've been doing with your life.
Sure, it came out in the '90s,
but it's an iconic TV show
that pretty defined a generation of TV.
And it gave Will Smith a serious boost
in his career.
However, despite all of
the incredibly good moments
in that show, the thing
people most remember
is something that Will Smith
didn't even come up with.
I am, of course, talking
about the Carlton Dance.
The first time we see
the dance is actually
in the Season 2 episode
"Christmas Snow", and it was
completely made up by Carlton's
actor, Alfonso Ribeiro.
All the script said was "Carlton dances,"
and Alfonso was left to
make up his own dance,
basically on the spot.
What we ended up with was a dance
that was remembered for years.
And is of course now in Fortnite.
In Fortnite, the dance is called "Fresh",
so there could be no mistake about
what it's trying to reference.
Just like the Carlton Dance from the show,
this dance is all about
those big, exaggerated,
swinging arm movements.
It looks pretty good and
considering the original dance
was just made up in a really short time
for a TV show in the 90s,
it's pretty cool to see
how much it has managed to
persist through the years,
even making it into one of the biggest
video games in the world.
Number Seven: Floss
While Fortnite Battle
Royale is played by people
of all ages, it's pretty obvious that
the game was made for kids.
The lack of blood and gore
as well as the cartoony
aesthetic of the graphics,
are all perfect for players
of a young age.
So it makes sense that some
of the emotes and dances
in the game cater more to
references that kids will get,
rather than the adult audience.
One of those dances is
called "Floss", and it's
based on a dance by someone
that you probably better
recognize as being called "Backpack Kid."
In real life, the dance
move is called "The Russell"
because the kid's name is
actually Russell Horning,
though it is known as "flossing".
People probably best know
Backpack Kid as being the kid
who did his dance on SNL
alongside Katy Perry.
The dance is pretty simple.
You just swing your arms around your body
while shaking your hips and
keeping the seriously straight face.
The dance in Fortnite is exactly the same.
Although Backpack Kid
can do it much faster.
Number Six: Electro Shuffle
Imagine being a YouTuber
and then out of nowhere,
having your dance moves being put into
Fortnite Battle Royale.
It would be a pretty big honor.
And it would bring a whole
load of more followers
to your YouTube channel.
Well that is exactly what
happened to a YouTuber
called Gabby J. David with
the Electro Shuffle Dance.
The Electro Shuffle Dance
is pretty clearly based off
of her video, "Bad &
Boujee ShuffleShapes",
which was uploaded to YouTube
on the 26th of January, 2017.
Fortnite didn't take the entire dance
that Gabby came up with,
but it's pretty obvious that
that part of the dance was
taken basically directly
from Gabby's video.
I have to be honest here and
say that I am pretty impressed.
When I first saw the Fortnite
dance, I thought it would
be tough to do in real life.
And that people would be trying
and failing to get it right
for quite a while.
To find out that it was
actually designed by someone
in real life, rather than some
animator who didn't realize
how unlikely it would be to
do that dance in reality,
was pretty surprising and
incredibly impressive.
Number Five: Reanimated
The Reanimated Dance is
probably one of the coolest
dances in Fortnite Battle
Royale at the moment.
You start off by kind of
acting like you're dead,
slumping over like your
body has lost all control,
before springing back up
to life and doing some
very clearly Michael
Jackson-style Thriller-inspired
dance moves, before
jerking all over the place
like you're a member of the
recently reanimated undead.
While this dance is
very clearly inspired by
Michael Jackson's iconic
Thriller dance at times,
there's other moves that come
from another place entirely,
though they are still real dance moves.
It isn't totally the same
but some of the moves
like the jerking all over the
place and shaking your arms
are pretty obviously taken
from a Korean dance group
called "Necrophilia".
The group who came up with
this dance have obviously
watched a load of zombie
movies to try and nail
the moves that a zombie might make.
And it ends up coming
together really well.
The music in Fortnite is
also pretty much exactly
the same as the music from
the dance show in real life,
so there's no doubt that
this is the same dance.
Number Four: Disco Fever
First released in 1977, the
movie "Saturday Night Fever"
is another iconic piece
of media from the past.
It follows the story of
Tony Manero, a 19-year-old
Italian-American from Brooklyn
who is trying to escape
his day to day life by
going to a local disco club
called "2001 Odyssey".
With the movie centered
around a disco club,
you would expect there
to be a lot of dancing.
And with John Travolta
playing Anthony Manero,
fans were not disappointed.
Disco Fever is a dance that is taken
straight from the movie and it is pretty
instantly recognizable as
using moves that people
instantly associate with the disco genre.
I mean, who hasn't seen
that pointing dance move
at least once, right?
I have to admit, that the
dance in "Saturday Night Fever"
is actually a lot better
than the version that
ended up being in Fortnite Battle Royale.
Travolta is just a lot more
fluid and stylish than the
Fortnite version.
But hey, that doesn't mean
that the Fortnite dance is bad.
It's still got quite a lot
of that classic disco flair.
Number Three: Ride The Pony
In 2012, the world was
taken by storm by a song
that we all now know is "Gangnam Style".
Since the video's official
release back in 2012,
it has managed to rack up over
3.1 billion views on YouTube.
And although that is no
longer the most views
on a YouTube video, it was
the first YouTube video
in history to manage to
get over a billion views.
One of the most iconic
dance moves in the entire
music video is the kind
of cowboy dance style,
where Psy acts as if he's on a horse,
trying to lasso another animal.
That dance move has been recreated
in Fortnite Battle Royale
as a move called "Ride The Pony".
Ride The Pony is exactly
what you'd expect it to be.
You bounce up and down in one spot and
act as if you are getting
ready to lasso something.
Just like Psy does in "Gangnam Style".
With so many views on the video,
and considering how much
of a hit the song became,
it really it isn't surprising
that Fortnite would
want to put that into their game.
Number Two: Best Mates
Fortnite doesn't just take
inspiration from popular
songs and videos.
They take inspiration from
popular memes as well.
And one of the most
recognizable of them all,
is the "Best Mates" dance.
Added in Season 3, the Best
Mates Dance is pretty simple.
You just run on the spot and
swing your arms back and forth.
But it has a pretty interesting history
that can be dated back to
a pretty hilarious video.
The dance was originally
uploaded by a content creator
on Facebook called Marlon
Webb, who has since
become a pretty big hit with his skits
and comedy videos.
Just like the Fortnite
dance, in this video,
Marlon jogs around the
place swinging his arms
and lifting his knees up super high.
Since the original video
though, this dance has
been recreated by a ton of people.
If you have ever gone
to a comic convention,
then there's a pretty high
chance that you've seen
whole chains of people
doing the Best Mates Dance
in a strange sort of conga line.
The most watched version
of this is probably
a video by Impact Props called,
"The Band of the Spartans",
from back in 2016.
Much to the confusion
of pretty much everyone
at the convention, a whole
group of Halo cosplayers
got together to do the Best Mates Dance,
all three of them, running
along behind one another.
Since that point in time,
more and more people
have gotten involved in
the meme, with crazy scenes
like tons of Star Wars
cosplayers all doing the dance
at the same time.
Number One: Orange Justice
The story behind the
Orange Justice Dance is one
of a competition, a kid, a
YouTuber called "Roy Purdy",
and most importantly, a betrayal.
It began with a contest.
The Boogiedown contest, which
was officially announced
by Fortnite in March.
It was to be a short contest
where people sent in ideas
for new dance emotes to be added
into Fortnite Battle Royale.
Basically, you had to do a
dance, and then if the guys
at Epic thought it was
good enough, it would
be added to the game.
Orange Justice was not the
winner, but because the dance
got so much support from fans
of the game, with Reddit posts
gaining thousands of upvotes,
Epic put it in, anyway.
But there's a dark twist to
the story of Orange Justice
and it links back to
the YouTuber, Roy Purdy.
While we are all giving credit
to the Orange Justice kid
for being the guy to come
up with the now world famous
dance, the truth is, that kid
didn't come up with it at all.
He stole it.
He stole it from Roy Purdy, who first
did the dance move, at the
very least, a year before.
And at the time, no one knew any wiser.
Now of course, this kid had
the guts to go and submit the
dance move to the Boogiedown
contest, but we shouldn't
be giving him all the credit
because he did, in fact,
take it from Roy Purdy.
And there you have it.
Our list of the Top 10
Fortnite dances in real life.
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