Fortnite Rickrolls Players With New Emote

Go ahead, feel free to Rickroll other players in Fortnite.

Epic Games didn't share a direct announcement, but an emote based on one of the first internet memes has been added to the free-to-play battle royale title.

Now, players can and run wild with it on the battlefield.

If you're unfamiliar with Rickrolling, here's a quick refresher: it's an internet-styled prank in which someone shares an unidentified hyperlink, describes it as one thing, and the recipient opens it up into something totally different.

Traditionally, singer Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video will play.

Newer forms of the internet meme utilize other videos or entirely different types of media.

Epic Games announced the emote by Rickrolling fans.

In a tweet, the publisher-developer shared that it liked a video titled "Watch How This Bear Made The Unlikeliest Of Friends." Well, the video's thumbnail of a polar bear isn't quite accurate.

Viewers instead get to see Fishstick and Polar Patroller dancing to Rick Astley's song.

There's nothing else that occurs in the clip; it's just thirty-three seconds of the two Fortnite characters dancing in place.

More than 1.2 million views are tallied so far, and it still ranks on YouTube's trending list two days after going online.

Astley's music video, meanwhile, has accumulated 650 million views since getting uploaded in October 2009.

Rickrolling started out a few years earlier, though.

Here's the entire video, courtesy of Epic Games:

Several people are suing Epic Games for its use emotes based on popular dances, but it doesn't appear that Astley or the record label behind "Never Gonna Give You Up" will take legal action.

After all, Astley isn't doing all that much in the music video.

Fortnite requires a separate purchase to gain the Rickroll emote.

Priced at 500 V-Bucks (or ~$5) in the Item Shop, you can pick up this emote today and immediately start Rickrolling friends or foes at any time.

Just don't be surprised if they also do it to you.

Go ahead, feel free to Rickroll other players in Fortnite.

Epic Games didn't share a direct announcement, but an emote based on one of the first internet memes has been added to the free-to-play battle royale title.

Now, players can and run wild with it on the battlefield.

If you're unfamiliar with Rickrolling, here's a quick refresher: it's an internet-styled prank in which someone shares an unidentified hyperlink, describes it as one thing, and the recipient opens it up into something totally different.

Traditionally, singer Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video will play.

Newer forms of the internet meme utilize other videos or entirely different types of media.

Epic Games announced the emote by Rickrolling fans.

In a tweet, the publisher-developer shared that it liked a video titled "Watch How This Bear Made The Unlikeliest Of Friends." Well, the video's thumbnail of a polar bear isn't quite accurate.

Viewers instead get to see Fishstick and Polar Patroller dancing to Rick Astley's song.

There's nothing else that occurs in the clip; it's just thirty-three seconds of the two Fortnite characters dancing in place.

More than 1.2 million views are tallied so far, and it still ranks on YouTube's trending list two days after going online.

Astley's music video, meanwhile, has accumulated 650 million views since getting uploaded in October 2009.

Rickrolling started out a few years earlier, though.

Here's the entire video, courtesy of Epic Games:

Several people are suing Epic Games for its use emotes based on popular dances, but it doesn't appear that Astley or the record label behind "Never Gonna Give You Up" will take legal action.

After all, Astley isn't doing all that much in the music video.

Fortnite requires a separate purchase to gain the Rickroll emote.

Priced at 500 V-Bucks (or ~$5) in the Item Shop, you can pick up this emote today and immediately start Rickrolling friends or foes at any time.

Just don't be surprised if they also do it to you.