This Sexy New Ice Cream Dance Is Everything Right About Fortnite

gamespot.com:

In Fortnite, there's a character who is more or less a human-sized ice cream cone with arms, legs, and--on top of everything else--a face. And this week, to kick off Fortnite's No Sweat Summer event, he's released a suggestive hip-hop song and dance about eating ice cream that's got everybody in the metaverse losing their minds in one way or another. Nobody's neutral here. Folks either love the new in-universe song by sentient ice cream cone Lil Whip, or they find it profoundly horrible.

For me, the new emote corresponding with Lil Whip's hip-hop track, Drippin' Flavor, is a masterpiece of both song and dance. But more importantly than that, it's a distillation of what has given Fortnite its staying power: this willingness to put a lot of effort into being extremely stupid.

This is one of those things that you kinda need to see for yourself, so if you haven't seen this beautiful abomination yet, you should take a moment to watch at least some of this little music video that one of Epic's content creator partners put out at the start of Fortnite's No Sweat Summer event.

Just so we all know what we're dealing with here, these are the lyrics for this part of the song: «MMMMMMM/ Lil Whip, Lil Whip Lil Whip/ MMMMMMM/ Take your pick/ Take a lick/ Just like this/ MMMMMM/ Whip it up/ Lil Whippin' in your cup/ MMMMMMM/ Lil Whippin'/ Drippin' flavor/ That's what's up.»

Remember, this is a song about ice cream, so it's not sexual! It just FEELS like it is--you can't mention licking stuff in a song if you want to avoid that vibe--and that's a big part of what set off the legions of haters when we first learned about the song.

Somebody who's new here might look at this Lil Whip situation and see some kind of failure. After all, when