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Fortnite’s latest in-game emote is a collaborative one. Epic Video games this night introduced the launch of “The Renegade,” the viral TikTok dance created by Atlanta teenager Jalaiah Harmon. The Twitter account for Fortnite brazenly cites Harmon, writing, “Go, go, go, go, let’s go and bust out some [fire] strikes by @jalaiah.”
It’s not clear whether or not Epic and Harmon struck some kind of licensing deal, nevertheless it’s a risk contemplating the developer’s rocky authorized historical past with dance emotes. All through Fortnite’s meteoric rise beginning within the fall of 2017, the sport has featured plenty of real-world dances copied from popular culture. Generally the emotes had been impressed by dances on previous tv exhibits, just like the default dance impressed by Scrubs actor…
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