RIP Grandma

About

RIP Grandma refers to a clip of Twitch streamer Zookdook, who some have called an E-girl, reading a condolence message for someone's deceased grandma while doing a Fortnite dance that went viral after it was posted to Twitter.

Origin

For tips, Twitch streamer Zookdook will often read messages while doing a Fortnite dance while streaming on the platform. She has read several condolence messages on stream while dancing. One of the earliest known "RIP Grandma" dances occurred on July 12th, 2019 (shown below).

On September 12th, 2019, she performed a similar message.^[1] This clip would later go viral (YouTube embed shown below).

Spread

On October 5th, 2019, Twitter user @thayocks posted the clip, gaining over 660 retweets and 2,000 likes (shown below). On Twitter, the video has been viewed over 146,000 times.

The clip was spread thanks to several popular reposts. These included reposts from @stillgray (shown below, top), who gained over 430 retweets and 2,100 likes, and @ayyoze (shown below, bottom), who gained over 220 retweets and 770 likes (shown below, bottom).

Zookdook's message also became a copypasta on the site, as several users tweeted the text (examples shown below).

Various Examples

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