- 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.
Legend has it, if you like this video
and subscribe to Arcade Cloud, Epic Games will actually
put your favorite dance move into Fortnite next.
So don't forget to like and subscribe.
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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