The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Fortnite

[@thechadx2]

can't believe gabi made me play fortnite for 4 hours and i had no choice :/

[@davidgonzales9039]

...."not really"

[@Green_Guysssss]

@@davidgonzales9039if only you were danny gonzales and not david we would have the ultimate commentary trio

[@thelesbianfroggo]

@@Green_Guysssssreal

[@Cheeseburger_NoTomatos]

Never thought I’d see gabi make a Fortnite video

[@Umbreon_932]

GABI IN THE CHAD MERCH GOES CRAZY

[@nathanw4214]

I can't believe 2017 was 25 years ago. Time flies

[@FxllenAngels]

I know right its so hard to believe it was nearly 32.5 years ago *sighs dramaticly* where did the time go?

[@SAG-iw7qq]

yeah it's hard to believe that my grandchildren now are 40 years older than what i was when fortnite came out

[@daniel_ghax]

Damn, a decade already...

[@thelesbianfroggo]

cant believe its been a century. time flew as fast as my dad ran for the milk😞💔

[@TwilightZoneMusic03]

Keep talking, it’ll be 25 before you know it…

[@Cassian0.0]

My take away from this video is that I need Gabi and Chad Chad to stream horror games together

[@C.anne116]

Gabi and Chad Chad are looking very alpha today

[@deviousdieselmusic]

Um excuse me they identify as sigmas ACKTCHEWALLY

[@syafiqjabar]

But then they are forbidden by society to make out with each other. Alphas can only smooch betas and omegas.

[@phroggiectrl]

why did i read that as giga chad

[@ragwysocki]

Lov them! ❤❤ súper funny duo

[@ZackarySmigel]

Titled Towers? Am I right fellow kids?

[@AspiringSheepHerder]

Hell yeah! Wanna go skateboards?

[@itsgabibelle]

take me back to tomato town 😔

[@LitanyOfValor]

​@itsgabibelle I wanna thumbs up this but it's currently at "69"

[@SarahtoninSerum]

​@@itsgabibelle I ate at only tomato town for a month

[@jiv3o275]

This comment reminds me of the SnapCube Sonic dub where the voice for Shadow knew nothing about Fortnite and just kept repeating "Tilted Towers" to seem like a real gamer 10/10

[@austins.2495]

“Your butt is two balls.” -Chad Chad

[@mikeyahl7363]

I would like to formally request ten (10) thousand more videos of Gabi & Chadx2 derping through games together

[@Syc_izBoredd]

God I love this duo. THE CHAD CHAD MERCH 😭😭 I LITERALLY LOVE Y'ALL

[@Astro.or-Ash]

CHAD CHAD AND GABI COLLAB IS THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN

[@ArtieOfAstora]

Can't believe KZbin hid this from me for 32 seconds

[@dawgwithavlog13]

how dare they.

[@parpzful]

KZbin should really consider unvaulting them

[@dawgwiddaglasses]

9:43 Ninja talks about women like someone who’s going to be exposed for cheating on his wife at some point.

[@Narangarath]

Yeah, he definitely sounds like he was already caught at it.

[@glswain]

blue-haired Mike Pence

[@chewnotchw3]

My thought exactly

[@pietro6032]

Leak the DMS Ninja, we know there are more minors there than in a kindergarten.

[@LonkinPork]

He talks like someone whose wife doesn't need 87 preteens DMing her that "OMG your husband totally FLIRTED with Pokimane while on stream OMG OMG OMG!!1!"

[@ILTVGIRL]

this collab itches my brain the right way

[@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt]

I wish there was a "slow build" mode. I like having the flexibility of accessing high places and ascending steep walls, but don't want to deal with Instant Sauron Towers whenever you take a shot ever.

[@SlimeyGuitarStrings]

RIGHT? I want a mode with build energy that takes time to regen so you can ramp or build a wall, but get rid the insta-fortress crap.

[@RealLvMc]

Just like Minecraft

[@ΔημητρηςΑντωνιου-μ2λ]

​@@SlimeyGuitarStringsthere was a mode in the old days. I think it gave you 30 wood, 20 brick and 10 metal. It was a compromise for the people who wanted a no builds Fortnite but epic couldn't (because of the map) and wouldn't (because they were Fortnite and thought they couldn't remove builds) do it

[@robinthebobin6537]

This is why I liked that game in season 1 and 2 but gave up. At the start, building was used as a secondary tactic to get one up in a fight. You'd maybe build one wall or slope to hide behind while shooting. But then it morphed into, as you said, you take a single shot at someone and they are instantly encased in an impenetrable fortress and you inevitably get killed. I don't have the time or will to practice enough to be able to do that, I'd rather just play something else

[@IsuiGtz]

The game was exactly like that. Until they added something called turbo building and the skill gap was born. There is no going back. Everyone is cracked now.

[@sillygoosegal]

I work for a catering company and this past weekend we did a wedding where Ninja was one of the groomsmen. It was wild lmfao (he didn’t tip at the bar at all but wasn’t rude or anything tbh)

[@lylelylecrocodile2538]

Does he play MegaMan

[@GuntWastelander]

Not tipping (especially as a rich person) is actually very rude NGL

[@blankness8]

​@@GuntWastelanderNinja is not my cup of tea but I don't think we should assume the worst from that. I didn't even know you were supposed to tip at bars (and am even more surprised that you'd have to tip catering at an event you're invited to as a guest). Granted I also haven't gone to a bar but still. That is good to know for the future though!

[@ahmed.abdelaleem]

@@GuntWastelander lol

[@closeben]

@@GuntWastelandertipping is a broken concept to begin with but tipping at a wedding makes no sense at all. When you hire a catering company you should be paying all their costs, including fair labour.

[@CaptainMcAnnis]

I started playing Fortnite because I once had a dream where I was playing it, dressed as the Rock, then I got gunned down by a bunch of kids on quads. I woke up, realizing I had no idea what the game even was anymore, so I played it. Turns out, it was exactly that. This is not a joke.

[@ΔημητρηςΑντωνιου-μ2λ]

You probably had fun, right🎉🎉😆

[@kl0bear]

lost my grandma today and this is exactly what i need to make me laugh and distract me, thanks dr. balls

[@laylah7986]

im so sorry for ur loss, may she rest in peace

[@IsuiGtz]

**hugs**

[@thetruemayo7424]

posting this on fortnite's 7th birthday might be the best part

[@stephe1506]

It's like maybe they were paid for it 😅 as someone who never played Fortnite this did feel like a very entertaining long ad. Hope they recoup some of the money they sink into the game with proceeds from this video

[@RaGiAn87]

I will never understand why people think collabs are a negative aspect in fortnite. Having John Cena singing Call me maybe while Vegeta is cranking 90s on Batman is the definition of fun gameplay and that will never be a negative.

[@carnage9536]

Because it’s stopped them making interesting weapons or features most of the time because they have 3 collabs with reskinned weapons/items

[@RaGiAn87]

@@carnage9536 they dropped rocket racing, festival, lego and reload in two years. They dropped so many crazy collabs nobody even thought possible during the same two years. Collabs do not interfere with game development.

[@carnage9536]

@@RaGiAn87 we get less new non collab skins, most of the lootpool is old weapons or collab weapons which are often reskins, they don’t do live events as often because they make collabs instead, they rarely make secret skins because they’re almost always collab skins, we get less unique battle pass skins because they’re replaced with collab skins. Rocket racing, Lego, and festival are edge cases.

[@ΔημητρηςΑντωνιου-μ2λ]

​@@carnage9536no, most of these complaints are here because of other factors, not collabs. I am not a huge collabs fan but I am not completely against them. Also, saying they don't make new and exciting and interesting staff is just plain false. Just look at the two seasons before, shit went down with crazy stuff. Zeus' lightning, Icarus' wings, the CAR SYSTEM and etc.

[@RaGiAn87]

@@carnage9536 i firmly believe collabs are objectively good for the game, but i admit my opinion on "non collab skins" is subjective bc i genuinely believe non collab skins are 90% garbage. Who on their right mind will prefer to play as generic soldier #31 instead of John Wick???? But to each their own i guess, go buy your cowboy skin? Arctic spec ops? Ghillie suit? While im playing like Hulk, you do you. Also adding one new weapon for each type per season is enough, we dont need 20 new weapons per season. They all shoot bullets, its not that deep.

[@artyb27]

Bruh my sub feed is so empty right now and I was just about to give up and eat dinner in silence, this notification was *peak* timing.

[@robin-im7bs]

I actually worked in a company making fortnite game modes. it's horrible. epics tutorials are horrible, it's impossible to find tutorials on fortnites unreal engine, they have a whole different programming language (verse), not to mention unreal is so heavy, not every pc can take it. idk how these kids are doing it, they're amazing.

[@lylelylecrocodile2538]

Is the company making those skibidi toilet only up modes or actually decent modes

[@tricapria]

That's like my dream job holy shit

[@robin-im7bs]

@@lylelylecrocodile2538 we were trying to make actual games. I think they dropped it tho, since it's not monetizable

[@lylelylecrocodile2538]

@@robin-im7bs oh dang

[@ΔημητρηςΑντωνιου-μ2λ]

​@@robin-im7bsnot monetizable. WHAT? I know that you wouldn't be the top ones but saying the maps aren't monetizable seems like a crazy thing to say. Sure the market is oversaturated but you can still profit from that. If your unique and crazy games didn't pay up, you could have gone the route of having some cash cows. Red vs blue is right there

[@mxmtoon]

awesome video gabi and chad

[@Koopkiris]

It's pretty crazy that Fortnite is turning 7 this year. Say what you will about it, but when looking at the decisions Fortnite has made over the years compared to other liveservice games, Fortnite is one of the only games that has put in the work to deserve to still be popular. Like, Warzone deleted every item players had bought for 3 years and just shrugged it off in a week! Fortnite has done a really good job of keeping the game fresh and interesting, and actually respecting their players

[@MRJMXHD]

Yeah they've been keeping their fans happy. Good way to stay in business.

[@WellMeaning]

It’s like the lebron james of battle royale

[@GreatBooksProf]

Really loved this video Gabi (and chad chad)! My wife and I are in our 40s. Our young kids invited us to play Fortnite with them a couple years ago. And now my wife and I play more than the kids do! We occasionally play squads as a family, or a couple of us will play duos. And just like you, we’re a zero build family. I think you’re absolutely right that this game has a much broader audience than the typical first-person shooter.

[@bleachywarhol]

when these two get together i find myself having a renewed sense of hope for humanity. please keep existing girly's

[@AspiringSheepHerder]

Ngl I love that it seems like the devs have free reign over the project. From a development perspective fortnight is a piece of art

[@AudioReplica2023]

Ninja: I dont play with steaming girls Me here having way more fun watching this two play in a 20min video than hours of streaming of Ninja

[@alexisjordan9055]

Anyone else remember that one PSA with the cracked egg where they warned us about our brains on Fortnite? Truly tragic and moving 😔😔😔

[@aud1598]

As a woman in my twenties who played Fortnite for the first time this year- I love it. Takes me back to playing cod with my brother when we were kids and it’s a lot of senseless screaming while a team of 4 lvl 150+ takes out your squad of players all below lvl 100

[@Nafeels]

I dunked on Fortnite BR when it first released (hell, still do today tbh) but I was there playing with my uni buddies and having good times. I love you mentioned the fact that it’s not taking itself seriously like so many other “grey” gun games was why it caught on until today, because it totally is! At one point, I played through S1 on a 3rd gen i7 laptop barely running 20 FPS because it’s funnier when I’m double shotgunning a poor bloke while my laptop was getting an aneurysm. I promised myself I won’t commit to a single microtransaction again but when the Peter Griffin skin came out promises are meant to be broken after all. Epic may have their share of problems but this ain’t it. Thank you for reminding me to play this game again.

[@JSGRanks]

I literally reinstalled Fortnite YESTERDAY after not having played it for 4 years, and next thing I know this video gets released

[@alejandrososa3168]

I'm reinstalling it right now 😂

[@zstar1284]

Anyone else notice Gabi left her microphone on the whole time after 14:19 ☝️😭

[@Amberly.Tejsingh]

I love when Danny Gonzalez and Kurtis Connor collab.

[@Anna-SophieKorbler]

Who’s who😂

[@billycheezburg]

I started playing last August. I love the game, but not the person I’ve become 😭😭

[@botoleyc3763]

I needed this collab so bad ❤

[@slothboop]

This is so true, it fell off for a couple years and I think the celebrity endorsements were cringe at times. But now I play it and it’s so fun to play with my friends that I haven’t seen in months. Bonding thru Fortnite, if you will.

[@augustoraugust7493]

Okay, now you two should create a Duo channel because I need more of this

[@tehbeernerd]

The most influential game of the 2010s (because it influenced the business models of most games that came after it)

[@SlimeyGuitarStrings]

Minecraft was 2010s too.

[@TheChilaxicle]

Along with the business models, the menus. Just about every free-to-play game released now has menus that are eerily similar to Fortnite's lol

[@stevenlerner5515]

i love u both so much, yall are amazing. gabi and chad need to be a series..... please make a podcast.... just once a week :) can not wait for next one

[@alid0505]

1:26 omg it’s CHAD CHAD

[@mizzenmax]

(not really)

[@sleeepyshadow3828]

"DID SOMEBODY SAY FORTNITE!?!??"

[@WilfredoWolganG]

I’m here from the year 2028. 2017 really was 11 years ago… I feel old.

[@kyibobpeb]

I laughed so hard watching your game play scenes. I love u guys 😂😂😂

[@ladybugspritz]

my phone somehow was on 2x speed, took me a minute into the video to realize it maybe wasn’t an artistic choice by gabi

[@gorillazcash]

starts playing and have been genuinely fixated on fortnite for the past 9 months and have gotten excited every time i’ve heard u mention it in previous videos so thank you for this. and also thank you zero build for existing

[@noodlesofoodles]

19:09 if you told someone ten years ago that there’d be a game called Fortnite where you can create your own mini game in which you have to level up your skibidi toilet so you can become sigma enough to rizz up the NPCs of Ohio City, they’d probably have you 5150’d lol

[@towelociraptor]

Tbh someone needs to be 5150d for this existing

[@SpineRipper93]

2 months ago I redownloaded Fortnite just to scratch my guitar hero itch after remembering Harmonix was purchased by Epic Games and that they were working on a music mode. Bought the guitar and everything. Had so much fun playing the one mode for literal hours. Then the next day a few days later I tried out Rocket Racing. Same thing happened, just addicted to the rank mode and no lifed it. I’ve gotten my best friend to play with me and we both dropped our previous game for Fortnite. I’m 31 years old and I like going home to have fun and not sweat online. I rarely even touch the battle royale mode. Fortnite is love. Fortnight is life.

[@ZeroAlligator]

My friends and I use Fortnite to unwind and talk about our days together after work. It’s something to do while decompressing. It’s definitely fun out of ten content.

[@jamesb9894]

A BURBACK style channel featuring Gabi and Chadchad pretending to be twins would be incredible

[@Hassan.Khadair]

Omg TheRush1000 from your gameplay footage is probably so cool and talented 👀

[@TheSuperBlaa]

@@Hassan.Khadair can confirm

[@jayden6666]

Someone said Chad Chad is just trying to take over channels and this video just proves that

[@Rubicon-23]

This video is absolute chaos and I love it.

[@SparkleTheater]

Save the World was the first mode they created, they actually started working on the BR after they released it. STW is why I got into Fortnite in the first place!

[@chrisburns514]

Crazy to think I was crankin’ 90’s before it was cool @ 22 years old, and now at 29, Epic’s got their meaty hooks in me again with Fortnite Festival

[@maykaaa2185]

i yearn for more chad chad and gabi fortnite footage

[@sasuke10010]

Yay fire collab with Chad Chad

[@SomebodyYouUsedToKnow-l8p]

oh how fast time flies, the fact that 2017 was 11 years ago makes me think I may have time traveled

[@astrogirllo]

ngl this video is very helpful. i’m 22 and work with kids, i understand most of their interests (most things kids like were popular when i was younger or just whatever is popular now) but i just never got into fortnite and now the lore is too deep. i also don’t wanna play it either

[@jonathanturner8243]

Ninja is the Mike Pence of gaming.

[@danielhart2851]

love the collab! yall work so well together

[@TheSuperBlaa]

Would you suggest that everyone plays this game on a Nintendo switch console?

[@JoshDare]

Omg is this THEsuperblaa??

[@kevinmackler]

my girlfriend never played video games at all growing up and now she plays fortnite more than i get to game at all, thanks to the new chapter + no build its a beautiful turn of events

[@jackquebis8402]

20:14 every overwatch player

[@lenalemisfit]

Petition to get more Gabi and Chad just playing games together content

[@Zortomm]

I can't wait to buy the 1800 vbucks Gabi Belle epic skin

[@Marlene-r2g]

You really had me for a second before I went „waaaaaait I’m not 22“

[@ToxikcLOUDx]

They don't call it aim bot because the circle around the star is hit box lmao. You're shooting a meteor everytime

[@lisacrawshaw]

I started gaming just 2 months ago as my boyfriend gave me his Xbox as he didn’t use it anymore (he uses PlayStation) because he wanted to teach me how to game so we can play video games together and I love this game. I was terrible at first but I’ve gotten a lot better already. And I’ve spent too much money on it already 😭

[@mgnlz809]

Name A More Iconic Duo. I'll wait.

[@stretchmonster]

Peanut butter and jelly.

[@DonnieHanby]

I love both Gabi and ChadChad and I need more collabs between you two.

[@ahearneo1]

What is the song that plays from 7:08 to 7:30???? thankyoou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TennessseTimmy]

What do you mean? We love being angry, playing games like deadlock is so much fun, I get to yell at the game being broken and also at my teammates being stupid because its a new game and still in early development

[@mrniceguy5]

Bro, you guys should defo play horror playthroughs.

[@Jossunnys]

This is the best crossover in recent history

[@MurshaGames]

BRIGADEIRO SONG MENTIONED !!!!!!

[@TheOddDuckDesigns01]

CONGRATULATIONS ON 1 MIL GABBIIIII

[@graceleeg]

epic gamer crossover moment FTW!! XD

[@duckibon]

I didnt realise how much i needed only gabi to take on this commentary, thank u

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

Man i remember the day it came out....i was playing it 2 days later after release....i can still hear the default emote in my head

[@greenfox42]

1:56 you two together makes me so happy

[@holacomooduh]

i love them sm

[@skyboimc]

i think you're the first person to put HOT TO GO and SKRILLEX BANGARANG in the same video 😭

[@silvereyed]

im a janitor at a highschool, and every time i see on a whiteboard the question "what is something you want?" or "what is something youre thankful for?" or a question along those lines, there is always at least one answer that says "fortnite vbucks". the rot is braining yall

[@dollinterrupted]

lol oh nooo kids play video games the world is ending ❄️❄️❄️

[@silvereyed]

A little background on me before this gets misconstrued, i’m 24, going on 25 in a few weeks. Born in late 1999. I’m a huge gamer and even dipped my toes into fortnite when it first blew up. I don’t think playing fortnite is wrong, however I do believe that if fortnite vbucks is an answer to a question thats supposed to be deep and retrospective, I think thats a little too much brainrot😂

[@davidwilliamson4559]

Nice. I love when Danny Gonzalez and Kurtis Connor collab :D

[@PetorGriffen7815]

Id argue the competitive scene is what kept fortnite alive for quite awhile during its "fall". The lan events were HUGE (fortnite World Cup). As someone who actively played during this time, this is what to me really kept the game alive, until covid messed a lot of it up and they went full collaboration mode.

[@bean10149]

I read the title as “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” I don’t know how that came up in my head.

[@nohintshere]

i mean, hot to go plays in the video

[@HiDDENk00l]

Not only can you make mashups with the songs, the game literally has its own version of Guitar Hero made by the same developers (because Epic Games bought out Harmonix) and it's so fun

[@Prederick]

Fortnite is a game I have no interest in ever playing, but it's appeal is so obvious and it's so shockingly well-crafted, and I often enjoy watching videos of other people screwing around in the ridiculous fantasy-scape it creates, so this is great.

[@marycoffelt3041]

Sometimes I feel like my brain is broken because I am one of the few people I know that enjoys playing league even if the game is going poorly. I just enjoy playing the game

[@stevenlerner5515]

naw gabi this is sooooooooo deep. love ur content so much and i know its hard to keep making them but thank you for keep going, thanks for being amazing and quite funny

[@SkittleToucan]

OMG I WANTED THIS COLLAB FOR LIKE... A FEW DAYS NOW 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@xdecatron2985]

Anytime Gabi and Chad do a video together, it’s a good time

[@areyrii]

Loving this collab style fr 11/10 editing 💪

[@chromebull884]

This is just like Godzilla meeting King Kong but both are normal sized people

[@Никодим-м9ъ]

The goofy way you two talk while playing makes me so happy!

[@katiekotok505]

My new fav duo

[@ME2shepard]

The chapter names are one of the best things about Gabi vids

[@yesh9290]

16:44 Its all fun & games when you're playing hide & seek with friends, until the teletubies lock in at the end...

[@haikult]

chad chad and gabi belle in one video?? my two favorite commentary youtubers??? 🤯🤯

[@Starsongzz]

8:00 I thought he was a Fortnite original character or a reference to something, I had no clue he was a real dude

[@agoniavr]

The thought that, if Epic didn’t randomly stumble upon Fortnite, we would have another Unreal Tournament still haunts me to this day

[@Finn_1080]

been waiting for this collab for years