But bantz on the internet says its true
I have so many questions
Is that dude wearing a gas mask/purple wig/ straight-jacket?
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"Fortnite Dances" is Cultural Erasure. Straight Up.
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I have so many questions
Is that dude wearing a gas mask/purple wig/ straight-jacket?
Now, all my animosity towards overpriced game DLC aside, I'd pay $25 for this.
Koreans seem fine with their pop artists dance moves ending up in videogames. Actual K-Pop artists literally just did a big collaboration purely as a videogame promotional tool.
A sizable chunk of dances in Fortnite are "white people dances". As was established the last time a variant on this topic was made.
The hip-hop artists complaining about this aren't complaining about "cultrual erasure".
They're complaining they're not making money.
A sizable chunk of dances in Fortnite are "white people dances". As was established the last time a variant on this topic was made.
The hip-hop artists complaining about this aren't complaining about "cultrual erasure".
They're complaining they're not making money.
It's not intentional "erasure" or anything. It's just what happens when something starts entering the global pop media.
Fortnite is super popular, and to a lot of people it's their first exposure to the dance (especially to non-americans like me)
I'm indian, and I don't get riled up over things like yoga, meditation or ganja hitting the mainstream and getting subverted in stange ways... because it's just the natural side effect of an interconnected world.
I think calling it the "Fortnite Dance" is really stupid. But that's not something you can just go blame white people on.
Fortnite is super popular, and to a lot of people it's their first exposure to the dance (especially to non-americans like me)
I'm indian, and I don't get riled up over things like yoga, meditation or ganja hitting the mainstream and getting subverted in stange ways... because it's just the natural side effect of an interconnected world.
I think calling it the "Fortnite Dance" is really stupid. But that's not something you can just go blame white people on.
Been kinda wondering about this for a while, so I'm glad someone decided to talk about it here.
Like I knew how, for example, dabbing already was sorta... something cultural turned into a generic "the teens are doing this" thing, so I had to imagine turning actual dance moves/dances into something that's generically Fortnite was an issue as well.
Like I knew how, for example, dabbing already was sorta... something cultural turned into a generic "the teens are doing this" thing, so I had to imagine turning actual dance moves/dances into something that's generically Fortnite was an issue as well.
Those are not people... Those are hell spawn in people suits!
PubG/Bluehole taking Epic to court over the Battle Royale genre and another company over their Frying Pans are great examples of litigious bullshit. Copyrighting basic dance could easily end up on that level. Credit should be given where its due, but the idea of legal action over it is fucked because of the precedent it sets.
Same reason every skin/announcer pack/ theme cost money. Because its extra content that someone created for monetization in a free to play game.
Didn't Elvis himself made it a point to say that other people should get credit for rock and roll?
White culture peaked with Orange Justice. Y'all need to claim him. That little boy is a legend
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Its basically if you do the dance in public, and someone says "Thats from Fortnite!!!"
its basically this:
Goth and mosher culture is fine, never hurt anyone. Baggy jeans though... yikes.
Cause it's content in their game that had to be animated? They're not charging for the license, dude.
Jeffrey Daniels didn't invent the Moonwalk either. You can find black and white clips of Blackside, the original Moonwalk.
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Its worth letting them know, no matter how much it annoys the fuck out of them
They are called "Cyber goths". Look up some youtube dance videos and have fun.
I was just joking. I went through a similar (less obvious) phase when I was a teen.
sure
also Epic should get some criticism for not crediting these guys until they credit these guys
these aren't incompatible stances
OP literally stated that the whole issue is that Epic are profiting from it.
In the same thought as dances being difficult to credit, y'all couldn't look me in the eye and tell me an animator wasn't watching a YouTube video or went to a concert and saw someone perform when they came up with the corresponding emote. Some of them may be their own shit but I promise you that those animators have videos up of the dances they're being inspired by while they're animating.
At the very least they could credit some of those.
At the very least they could credit some of those.
Were they not paid for that? I assumed they were. They got a lot of credit for that, so I don't really see how it's comparable.
You've gotta be joking right? They got paid to make a song lmao you're stretching shit soo far.
This came up in the last thread but no, this isn't true. You can copyright a choreographed dance but you can't copyright a dance move. From the official document on the matter:
I'm not going to make a judgement on the OP's topic as a whole but looking at the problem as an issue of copyright is looking at it the wrong way.
for whatever it's worth, thanks to this thread i learned that some of these dances aren't stuff that fortnite made up and that they were invented by black people. so there's that
what and why
i have two questions, and two questions only:
what and why
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Yeah, EPIC is making money HAND OVER FIST.
but refuses to even give credit or compensation.
Epic is making money but they can't even write a couple words on a screen.
You either go down this skill tree or down the one that ends with you playing Roxas in a live-action battle with Sora in the middle of December
LoLs been stealing K-Pop moves for literally years now. Koreans also happen to really like LoL.
Is there video of it?
Okay that made me chuckle.
I know you're trying to make a silly point but that's not how royalties work, and if you don't understand that then you can't understand the point some in this thread are trying to make.
Basically, the OP claiming he dabbed did not make him a profit. Me dabbing right now doesn't make me a profit so there are no royalties to be paid. If I were to make money off of something someone else created then the argument for royalties comes in. That's one of the issues here. Epic is profiting by selling something other people created, that's why people bring up royalties.
That's not true that's actually wrong. This isn't a step to a dance this is the entire dance.
Did you get permission to use dab as part of you username from the person that invented it?
I showed my nephew that old Mickey cartoon about the haunted house, and when I said I love the part where the skeletons sweep their bodies without moving their head during a dance, he said it's a fortnite dance.
Pointing out that white people can't dance aside, which they can't, it wouldn't hurt Fornite to give some credits. Paying though? Yeah, good luck sorting that out logistically.
I don't think Epic needs to give credit to the Techno Viking guy or BTS or Blackpink either, no.
That was definitely the case during world of Warcraft times but I imagine nowadays they're mostly mo-caped by professional dancers
That doesn't really make it better imo. Those mo-cap actors are going to need directors and the direction will be, "Do Superman but sideways."
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