Is the Fortnite Kamehameha Battle bus elimination clip real? Explained

Although it has been a month since Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3's conclusion, players still remember it fondly. The season was no less than a revival of Epic's Battle Royale. Impressive collaborations with Lucas Films, Naruto, and Dragon Ball established it as one of the best seasons till date.

The Fortnite x Dragon Ball collaboration introduced new mythics like Kamehameha and Kintoun. While players were running about beaming at their opponents, one player used Goku's signature attack on an entire Battle bus and won a Victory Royale in a matter of seconds, or at least this is what the viral video depicts.

Sadly, the viral Kamehameha elimination clip was doctored. It is a compound clip of many staged clips, ingeniously weaved together to render the effect of obliterating an entire Battle Bus. In the words of the clip's creator, it is fake.

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Fortnite creator ingeniously trolled the community

Back in Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3, a clip started gaining traction on TikTok. In the clip, a player used Kamehameha on the spawn island and timed it just right to eliminate everybody on board, winning a Victory Royale within the first few seconds of the match.

Posted by the popular content creator Aid, the video soon went viral and garnered over 20,000,000 views and 2,500,000 likes within the first 48 hours. It was later posted on other social media platforms and was soon picked up by many news and esports websites.

Once the hype around the video had simmered down, the YouTuber took it upon himself to share with the community how he went about creating the most viral Fortnite clip of Chapter 3 Season 3. While it is doctored, the clip does represent the creativity and resourcefulness of the creator and perhaps the gullibility of the average content consumer.

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How the video was made

Aid has shared an interesting video enumerating the steps behind the making of his viral clip. The video illustrates his sheer genius and also paints the complex processes that go into making a video, which can pander to a specific vertical and its consumers. Here is a succinct breakdown of the video:

• The most important part of the video was to get Kamehameha on the spawn island. The creator exploited a Fortnite glitch that enabled tents on the spawn island. Aid, in a match, stashed the mythic inside a tent and later retrieved it on the spawn island.
• To key out Kamehameha, the creator used the mythic against a backdrop of green foliage to facilitate easy chroma keying of the beam.
• To mimic the Victory Royale animation, the creator entered a custom match with his friend who later abandoned the Battle bus, leading the creator to a victory.
• To key out elimination notifications, the creator used a custom Fortnite Creative map with floor traps and green-colored walls. He also created a few custom ones to mimic the animation.
• When all of this was done, the creator then hired a professional to animate the Kamehameha attack on the Battle bus and stitch all these parts together to create a linear timeline of events.

The video was then posted on TikTok, and with the help of some other famous creators, Aid was able to expedite the process.