BlocBoy JB decides to sue Epic Games for Fortnite \u2018Hype\u2019 emote Blocboy JB, InstagramAmerican rapper James \u2018BlocBoy JB\u2019 Baker has moved forward with a lawsuit against Fortnite developers Epic Games, after calling out the company for using his \u2018Shoot\u2019 dance in an emote nearly six months prior. According to documentation acquired by TMZ, BlocBoy is in the process of copyrighting the dance, which he claims was used without permission by Epic Games for its \u2018Hype\u2019 emote. BlocBoy\u2019s lawsuit follows a Tweet he posted in September of 2018, where the rapper called out Epic for not giving him credit for the dance. EveryTime Somebody Does My Dance Dey Give Credit To @FortniteGame But Dey Ain\u2019t Create Nothing But Da Game So Basically Dey Takin Money And Credit For My Shit Dats Crazy \u2014 BlocBoy JB (@BlocBoy_JB) September 10, 2018 \u201cEvery time somebody does my dance, they give credit to Fortnite, but they ain\u2019t create nothing but the game,\u201d BlocBoy wrote of the situation. \u201cSo basically, they takin\u2019 money and credit for my shit. That\u2019s crazy.\u201d While he considered suing the company later on in December, it appears that BlocBoy has decided to move forward with the suit \u2013 along with a number of other celebs. Epic Games have since been hit with a slew of lawsuits from multiple celebrities and internet personalities, including the likes of Fresh Prince actor Alfonso Ribeiro, rapper Terrence \u20182 Milly\u2019 Ferguson, and Instagram sensation Ryan \u2018Backpack Kid\u2019 Huggins. However, a few of these lawsuits are being highly contested by onlookers, after footage surfaced of another possible origin of the \u2018Floss\u2019 dance. Additionally, investigators discovered that Ribeiro admitted he had stolen his famous \u201cCarlton\u201d dance from actors Will Smith and Courteney Cox in an interview with TMZ, leading to mass speculation that the actor\u2019s lawsuit may not hold up in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BlocBoy JB decides to sue Epic Games for Fortnite \u2018Hype\u2019 emote Blocboy JB, InstagramAmerican rapper James \u2018BlocBoy JB\u2019 Baker has moved forward with a lawsuit against Fortnite developers Epic Games, after calling out the company for using his \u2018Shoot\u2019 dance in an emote nearly six months prior. According to documentation acquired by TMZ, BlocBoy is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}