Fortnite: Copyright and cultural appropriation

In the popular video game Fortnite, many of the avatars you choose have their own dance and these dances have spawned viral dance challenges on the internet. However players have noticed a lot of these dances are from hip-hop such as the milly rock or the shoot. The dances are renamed in the game too. My friend even sent me a video earlier this week comparing Turk from Scrubs dancing to Poison and a Fortnite character dancing the same moves. An INSIDER video raises up the question of whether a video game could copyright a dance, including tweets from Chance the Rapper who believes that Fortnite has not credited black creatives and an interview with 2 Milly, the rapper who created the milly rock. I've definitely seen a lot of content by black creatives get stolen and repurposed with no credit or compensation attached to them on the internet. It's especially gross in this case when dances that are made for fun by black people instead get renamed and used for copyright in other formats because no one expected a fun dance move to have ethical consequences. Because the dances in Fortnite are so popular, people have started assuming that others are doing the dance from Fortnite and not from the actual artist or video.