Sure, there’s a bit of “look at this wacky youth thing” in the New Yorker piece, but I think the it also captured the breathtaking speed with which Fortnite became a schoolyard phenomenon. The game went from nothing to the new hotness that every child in America had to play in a matter of weeks. That’s stunning to people in the industry and us, let alone some parent that wasn’t really paying attention to their kids videogames.