Epic Games trolls entire Fortnite fanbase to release new emote Epic GamesA new emote has appeared in the Fortnite store, and the game celebrated by duping its fan base with an classic joke, almost as old as the internet itself. It\u2019s been over a decade since the classic bait-and-switch was introduced to the online world, but even as 2020 gets rolling, it doesn\u2019t appear to be going away yet thanks to Fortnite. On Valentine\u2019s Day evening, the game\u2019s official Twitter account posted a link to a video, with the caption \u201cI liked a video on YouTube: Watch How This Bear Made The Unlikeliest Of Friends.\u201d The video did show a bear and their friend, but it wasn\u2019t what fans expected. I liked a video on YouTube: Watch How This Bear Made The Unlikeliest Of Friends https:\/\/t.co\/iQDd9tB0e9 \u2014 Fortnite (@FortniteGame) February 15, 2020 The anthropomorphic bear sporting armor, an eyepatch, and a leather cap danced with Fishstick to Rick Astley\u2019s \u201cNever Gonna Give You Up.\u201d The Fortnite community had been rickroll\u2019d by the game itself. Several big names in the game\u2019s community reacted on social media, expressing disbelief that they had been rickroll\u2019d by Fortnite in 2020. Some were more upset than others. However, the positive to be taken away is that the dance itself is now a purchasable, unlockable emote in the game itself. Players can now Rickroll their enemies and teammates to their heart\u2019s content. It goes for 500 V-bucks on the store. Tfue discovered the emote while browsing the shop on stream, and, after being rickroll\u2019d himself, wasted no time in getting it for himself. For those unfamiliar with what Rickroll-ing is, given that it\u2019s a very old meme, it is the act of tricking someone into clicking open the music video for \u201cNever Gonna Give You Up\u201d by claiming that it is something else. The joke began on sites like 4chan, but over the next decade or so, it was used in movies, at sporting events, and became a staple of internet culture. If you\u2019ve never heard of \u2018rick rolling\u2019 before, Rick Astley himself explains all right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epic Games trolls entire Fortnite fanbase to release new emote Epic GamesA new emote has appeared in the Fortnite store, and the game celebrated by duping its fan base with an classic joke, almost as old as the internet itself. It\u2019s been over a decade since the classic bait-and-switch was introduced to the online world, […]<\/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-72183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72183","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=72183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}