# ForsenE 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. ## Origin 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, 2015[6]. 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, 2016[3]. - **Platform:** Twitch / Reddit (fan campaign) - **Creator:** landerwi (Reddit) - **Date:** 2016 ## 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 channels[1]. 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 2018[5]. 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 rankings[5]. ## How to Use 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. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is ForsenE? 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[1]. ### Where did ForsenE come from? The base photo was taken from a Viagame Q&A at DreamHack Summer 2015[6], 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[3]. ### 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[1]. ### How do you use ForsenE? On Twitch, viewers type the emote in long repeated lines during streams and raids[1], while on r/forsen the image is photoshopped onto athletes, celebrities and movie scenes[5]. ### Is ForsenE still popular? The original emote fell off the global charts in March 2018 after Twitch adjusted its rankings over bot abuse[2], but the forsenT variant was still at 31st globally with over 81 million uses as of January 2020[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/29/16938042/forsen-emote-twitch-ugandan-knuckles-meme]() 2. [https://kotaku.com/you-likely-never-saw-twitchs-most-popular-emote-1825898916]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/forsen/comments/4eflew/original_full_size_forsene/]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/7smlol/forsene_is_now_most_used_twitch_emote/]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/forsene]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRhUYVXGH88]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/forsene Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library