Fortnite: Battle Royale offers a variety of dances as emotes. These often originate from the videos of well-known artists. Among them is rapper Blocboy JB, who thinks it’s not cool that Epic appropriates his moves. Accusations of racism are intertwined in his criticism.
Which dance is it about? In Fortnite, there is the emote “Hype”. In it, your character moves around as if they were a conductor on an old steam locomotive.
What many don’t know: The move actually comes from rapper Blocboy JB and is called Shoot Dance. The artist is upset that Epic just took his dance and put it in the game without his consent or mention.
“Every time someone shows my dance, they think it’s from Fortnite!”
Who invented it? The rapper is most annoyed that many people now believe that Fortnite invented the dance and that he is copying the game. In fact, it is the other way around:
Every time someone shows my dance, they think it’s from Fortnite. But they haven’t done anything other than the game!
Epic would take Blocboy JB’s art and gain money and fame from it.
Rapper accuses Epic of racism
In another tweet, the rapper went a step further: “They love our culture but hate our skin color.”
With this, Blocboy alludes to the fact that Epic has repeatedly used the moves and dances of other black artists, and many players only know the moves from Fortnite.
In the past, artists like Chance the Rapper have complained about this practice and threatened with legal action. Chance also feels that Epic is deliberately exploiting creative black artists without involving them.
He also demands a share for the original artists from the revenue.
Dances are hard to control: However, it seems that Epic still has nothing to fear. Because unlike specific songs, dances and moves are difficult to protect under copyright. Not even Michael Jackson was able to secure his famous moonwalk back then.
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