Russell Horning is a teenager who was born on December 19, 2001 and went viral for dancing with Katy Perry while she was performing atSaturday night Live” in 2017. He currently lives in Atlanta, USAwith her mother.
The young man better known as ‘the boy with the backpack gained a large number of followers from Instagram performing the dance. His popularity has led him to do charity work, and he has visited numerous underprivileged schools in America to hand out gifts such as new school supplies.
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Became known for the “Floss” dance
And although this subject is much debated, Russell Horning He claims to have invented the “Floss” dance, which consists of serious and rigid movements, while rapidly swinging the arms across the hips in a specific movement pattern. These peculiar steps led him in May 2017 to dance with Katy Perry the song “Swish Swish” on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL).
“I dance with a comedic purpose. I didn’t really start dancing until a couple of years ago. That’s when I started flossing in public at a church camp on the dance floor. It was nothing at the time; it didn’t even have a name. People who watched SNL made me famous,” Horning said.
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Files lawsuit against Epic Games for using his dance
The creators of the popular video game Fortnite faced another lawsuit. This time by the mother of Russell, Anetta. She filed proceedings against Epic Games and Take Two Interactive, where she claims that the two games had used the dance and profited from it unfairly.
However, in 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that the lawsuit had no legal merit as Russell he never owned the copyright to the dance. Finally, he and his mother withdrew the complaint.