Jebaited

2016emoteclassic

Published September 2, 2026

Jebaited is a Twitch global emote showing FGC organizer Alex Jebailey grinning upward, added to the platform in September 2016. It quickly became chat's default reaction whenever a streamer, viewer, or opponent got tricked, spawning a signature Twitch copypasta and one of the most-spammed bait callouts of the late 2010s.

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Overview

Jebaited is the Twitch global emote of Alex Jebailey, the founder of the fighting-game tournament series CEO Gaming, pictured mid-laugh looking upward1. Chat spams it the moment a streamer walks into an obvious trap, a viewer falls for a joke, or an opponent lands a hard read in a fighting game2.

The emote reads as both a taunt and a confession. Post it after you get baited yourself, or fire it into chat the instant someone else does. Outside Twitch, the word carries over as a verb, with Urban Dictionary defining it as getting tricked or bait-and-switched, often around gaming pay-to-win reveals or chat pranks3.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitch
Creator
Alex Jebailey
Date
2016

The Jebaited emote was added to Twitch as a global emote in September 2016, using a photograph of CEO Gaming founder Alex Jebailey grinning with his head tilted back1. Jebailey had been a fixture of the fighting-game community for years through the CEO event series, and the still image was pulled from that scene before Twitch pushed it site-wide4.

How It Spread

The emote's chat usage locked in on September 23, 2016, when the copypasta "Kappa outdated / Pogchamp overrated / Long have we waited / Now we Jebaited" was added to the Twitch Quotes database4. Within weeks it was the default callout for any bait play across FGC, Dota and shooter streams.

On October 16, 2016, YouTuber AdmiralBulldog uploaded a Dota 2 clip titled "Bulldog Jebaited Aegis Steal," pushing the term into MOBA highlight vocabulary5. A few days later, on October 20, streamer TimTheTatman tweeted the copypasta to his followers6, and on October 23 a Redditor asked /r/OutOfTheLoop what the emote even meant, a sign it had outrun its origin7. On October 25, Jebailey himself leaned in by tweeting a tiled desktop wallpaper of the emote with the hashtag #Jebaited6.

Jebailey later took the bit into the real world at AEW's Fyter Fest on June 29, 2019, losing a fifteen-minute hardcore match to Michael Nakazawa that used a fight stick, a GameCube controller and arcade buttons as weapons4.

How to Use This Meme

Typical usage is a single word or the emote alone, dropped in Twitch chat the instant a bait play lands. Common convention is to spam it in response to a streamer dying to an obvious trap, a chat member falling for a joke question, or a fighting-game player getting hard-read on a whiff punish2. The copypasta version, ending in "Long have we waited / Now we Jebaited," often includes the emote at each line break4.

Frequently Asked Questions

Jebaited

2016emoteclassic

Published September 2, 2026

Jebaited is a Twitch global emote showing FGC organizer Alex Jebailey grinning upward, added to the platform in September 2016. It quickly became chat's default reaction whenever a streamer, viewer, or opponent got tricked, spawning a signature Twitch copypasta and one of the most-spammed bait callouts of the late 2010s.

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Overview

Jebaited is the Twitch global emote of Alex Jebailey, the founder of the fighting-game tournament series CEO Gaming, pictured mid-laugh looking upward1. Chat spams it the moment a streamer walks into an obvious trap, a viewer falls for a joke, or an opponent lands a hard read in a fighting game2.

The emote reads as both a taunt and a confession. Post it after you get baited yourself, or fire it into chat the instant someone else does. Outside Twitch, the word carries over as a verb, with Urban Dictionary defining it as getting tricked or bait-and-switched, often around gaming pay-to-win reveals or chat pranks3.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitch
Creator
Alex Jebailey
Date
2016

The Jebaited emote was added to Twitch as a global emote in September 2016, using a photograph of CEO Gaming founder Alex Jebailey grinning with his head tilted back1. Jebailey had been a fixture of the fighting-game community for years through the CEO event series, and the still image was pulled from that scene before Twitch pushed it site-wide4.

How It Spread

The emote's chat usage locked in on September 23, 2016, when the copypasta "Kappa outdated / Pogchamp overrated / Long have we waited / Now we Jebaited" was added to the Twitch Quotes database4. Within weeks it was the default callout for any bait play across FGC, Dota and shooter streams.

On October 16, 2016, YouTuber AdmiralBulldog uploaded a Dota 2 clip titled "Bulldog Jebaited Aegis Steal," pushing the term into MOBA highlight vocabulary5. A few days later, on October 20, streamer TimTheTatman tweeted the copypasta to his followers6, and on October 23 a Redditor asked /r/OutOfTheLoop what the emote even meant, a sign it had outrun its origin7. On October 25, Jebailey himself leaned in by tweeting a tiled desktop wallpaper of the emote with the hashtag #Jebaited6.

Jebailey later took the bit into the real world at AEW's Fyter Fest on June 29, 2019, losing a fifteen-minute hardcore match to Michael Nakazawa that used a fight stick, a GameCube controller and arcade buttons as weapons4.

How to Use This Meme

Typical usage is a single word or the emote alone, dropped in Twitch chat the instant a bait play lands. Common convention is to spam it in response to a streamer dying to an obvious trap, a chat member falling for a joke question, or a fighting-game player getting hard-read on a whiff punish2. The copypasta version, ending in "Long have we waited / Now we Jebaited," often includes the emote at each line break4.

Frequently Asked Questions