ForsenE is a Twitch emote showing a warped image of streamer Sebastian 'Forsen' Fors's face, used mainly as a spam and trolling tool by his fan base.

Where did ForsenE come from?

The base photo was taken from a Viagame Q&A at DreamHack Summer 2015, and Reddit user landerwi warped it for a 2016 Forsen subscriber emote contest, posting the full-size version to r/forsen on April 12, 2016.

What does ForsenE mean?

It doesn't carry a literal meaning in chat. Forsenboys use it as a spam flood to annoy other streamers and claim territory, with the warped face itself as the joke.

How do you use ForsenE?

On Twitch, viewers type the emote in long repeated lines during streams and raids, while on r/forsen the image is photoshopped onto athletes, celebrities and movie scenes.

Is ForsenE still popular?

The original emote fell off the global charts in March 2018 after Twitch adjusted its rankings over bot abuse, but the forsenT variant was still at 31st globally with over 81 million uses as of January 2020.

ForsenE

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Published October 27, 2026

ForsenE is a warped Twitch emote of Swedish streamer Sebastian 'Forsen' Fors that his fans spammed to the number one spot on Twitch's global emote list in January 2018. The campaign irritated broadcasters like Tyler1 and later triggered Twitch to overhaul its emote ranking system after bots were caught inflating counts. By 2019, a follow-up edit called forsenT with Forsen's teeth photoshopped over his eyes took over as the fan base's preferred spam.

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Overview

On Twitch, ForsenE functions as a spam weapon more than a reaction image. Members of Forsen's audience, who call themselves Forsenboys, post the emote in rapid repetition inside his own chat and in raids on bigger channels1. Outside the chat slot, the warped face shows up in photoshops on the r/forsen subreddit, where users graft it onto athletes, celebrities and movie stills.

Several variants extend the base image. ForsenCD overlays Dr Disrespect's sunglasses and mustache on the warped portrait and became its own joke on r/forsen in early 20185. forsenT keeps the same photo but moves Forsen's teeth to where his eyes should be, producing a more grotesque version that the community rotated in once the original fell out of the global rankings5.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Twitch / Reddit (fan campaign)

Creator

landerwi

Date

2016

The source photo comes from a Viagame Q&A session filmed at DreamHack Summer 2015, where Forsen and other esports personalities answered rapid-fire audience questions. The clip went up on YouTube on June 22, 20156. The following year, as Forsen gained traction on Twitch, he ran contests inviting viewers to design custom subscriber emotes. Reddit user landerwi grabbed a frame from the Viagame interview, stretched and squished the face into its signature distortion, and submitted it. The warped version was posted at full size to r/forsen on April 12, 20163.

How It Spread

Once ForsenE entered Twitch's global emote library, Forsenboys organized spam runs on Reddit and in chat threads with one goal: drive the emote to the top of StreamElements' tracker. Raids into bigger channels flooded chats with lines of the warped face, and League of Legends streamer Tyler1 eventually banned both the users and the emote itself after fans swarmed his stream1. By late January 2018, StreamElements counted more than 360 million uses, topping Kappa and TriHard on the global charts1. A Reddit thread on r/LivestreamFail from that stretch marked the moment ForsenE hit number one4.

The reign was short. On March 21, 2018, the emote slipped under Fed7, a saluting image of OfflineTV streamer Fedmyster that most Twitch viewers had never actually seen in chat. Kotaku reported that Fed7's climb was propelled by bot traffic, which prompted Twitch to rework how it ranked global emote usage and threw ForsenE's prior numbers into doubt as well2. A spinoff called ForsenCD, pasting Dr Disrespect's sunglasses and mustache over the warped face, surfaced on Twitch in February 2018, with Redditor fahad___789 posting the first r/forsen entry on March 55. By 2019 the Forsen community rotated to forsenT, a teeth-over-eyes edit that StreamElements clocked at over 81 million uses and ranked 31st globally by January 20205.

Timeline

2015-06-22

The Viagame Q&A video from DreamHack Summer 2015, the source of the base photo, goes up on YouTube.

2016-04-12

Reddit user landerwi posts the full-size warped version of Forsen's face to r/forsen, the version that becomes the emote.

2018-01-29

Polygon reports ForsenE as the most used Twitch emote, with StreamElements counting over 360 million uses.

2018-02

The ForsenCD variant, with Dr Disrespect's sunglasses and mustache layered over the warped face, first appears on Twitch.

2018-03-05

Redditor fahad___789 posts an 'I'm Literally the Guy in the Pic' image macro using ForsenCD on r/forsen.

2018-03-21

ForsenE falls below Fed7 on StreamElements, part of a ranking shift Twitch later tied to bot activity.

2020-01

The forsenT variant sits at 31st most used Twitch emote with over 81 million uses, per StreamElements.

How to Use This Meme

In Twitch chat, viewers typically type :forsenE: in long repeated columns to flood the message window, especially during raids into other streamers' channels. On r/forsen, users commonly paste the warped face over the head of a public figure in a photoshop and post it to the subreddit, often paired with a one-line joke referencing something Forsen did on stream.