Fortnite Default Dance
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About
The Fortnite Default Dance, also known as Dance Moves, is a remix series based on the default dance emotes in the game Fortnite.
Origin
On February 7th, 2006, the season five episode of Scrubs entitled "My Half-Acre" aired.[1] in the episode, the character Turk (played by Donald Faison) dances to the song "Poison" by Bell Biv Devoe (shown below, left).
On July 25th, 2017, Fortnite was released in Early Access.[2] In the game, the default emote dance move resembled Turk's from Scrubs (shown below, right).
Spread
On September 25th, YouTuber Sparky Thunder published a video entitled "Fortnite Dance Reference To Scrubs." The post (shown below) received more than 1.4 million views in 11 months.
Three months later, YouTuber A_Rival Planetskill posted a side-by-side comparison of the dance, syncing the two together. The post (shown below, left) received more than 5.4 million views in less than one year.
Months later, on February 17th, 2018, YouTuber TerificTaylor 10 posted a video of a person doing the dance. The post (shown below, right) received more than 2,100 views in six months.
On August 27th, 2018, Twitter user @ForkKnifeEmotes, an account the posts various other characters doing Fortnite dances, posted the character Tamamo no Mae doing the dance. The post (shown below) received more than 200 retweets and 485 likes in 24 hours.
Tamamo no Mae doing the default fortnite dance. (Requested by
Mlickles</a>) <a href="https://t.co/P9gVHX5CRG">pic.twitter.com/P9gVHX5CRG</a></p>— Your Fav Doing Various Fortnite Emotes (ForkKnifeEmotes) August 28, 2018
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