Fortnite's default dance is one of the starter emotes given to every player in the battle royale game, which launched in 2017 and quickly turned its simple dance into a cultural shorthand for the game itself. Clips of the emote spread through gameplay videos, streams and short-form edits, where the looping music became a joke about dancing at inappropriate moments or refusing to take a match seriously. Years later it remains useful precisely because almost anyone who has seen Fortnite recognises the rhythm within a second, even without seeing the character dance.