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'inventor' of The Floss gets sued for suing Fortnite
6 years ago
The self-professed inventor of the Floss dance move attempted to sue the creators of Fortnite over the uncalled for use of their trademark dance in the game.
However they in turn got sued by the dance's copyright holder the family of the former CEO of Manga Incorporated.
Turns out that the dance which is really called "the bathhouse" was invented by the CEO during a business trip in the 1940's.
In the 90's the dance move became popular again as part of a Japanese meme known as 'flossing'.
Fast forward a few years and the Japanese meme was reposted on 4chan which is where the faux creator of the dance first witnessed it, hence the choice of name for the dance.
The creators of Fortnite it seems already knew of the dance's origin yet decided to credit the person who named it 'the floss' as the original creator anyway.
The family of the former CEO of Manga is the second richest person to sue Fortnite after the former CEO of Sega's multiple copyright claims.
With the two of them combined it's unlikely that the makers of Fortnite will be able to sustain the company and its assets after paying out all the compensation and attributed earnings involved.
Sega's former CEO quit his job and has made a sustantial living off suing people who have stolen his ideas ever since the mid 90's and has become one of the richest people in the world after Bill Gates, a person who the former Sega CEO sued back in the early noughties to make himself into a multi billionaire.
Japan right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn476i40pXk
The former CEO of Sega commented "[the Fortnite creators] have to be a special kind of idiots to fail this badly."
However they in turn got sued by the dance's copyright holder the family of the former CEO of Manga Incorporated.
Turns out that the dance which is really called "the bathhouse" was invented by the CEO during a business trip in the 1940's.
In the 90's the dance move became popular again as part of a Japanese meme known as 'flossing'.
Fast forward a few years and the Japanese meme was reposted on 4chan which is where the faux creator of the dance first witnessed it, hence the choice of name for the dance.
The creators of Fortnite it seems already knew of the dance's origin yet decided to credit the person who named it 'the floss' as the original creator anyway.
The family of the former CEO of Manga is the second richest person to sue Fortnite after the former CEO of Sega's multiple copyright claims.
With the two of them combined it's unlikely that the makers of Fortnite will be able to sustain the company and its assets after paying out all the compensation and attributed earnings involved.
Sega's former CEO quit his job and has made a sustantial living off suing people who have stolen his ideas ever since the mid 90's and has become one of the richest people in the world after Bill Gates, a person who the former Sega CEO sued back in the early noughties to make himself into a multi billionaire.
Japan right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn476i40pXk
The former CEO of Sega commented "[the Fortnite creators] have to be a special kind of idiots to fail this badly."
some people just literally have all the ideas.
America is pretty damn stupid.