About

ForsenE is a Twitch emote depicting a warped image of streamer Forsen's face. In January 2018, the emoji became the most used emote on Twitch following a spam campaign by Forsen's viewers, who refer to themselves as “Forsenboys.” The emote is usually used as a form of spam or a way to annoy and troll on Twitch, especially by Forsen's fan base. The photo has frequently been used to create various photoshops and image macros, many of which have been submitted to the r/forsen subreddit.

Origin

The original unwarped image of Forsen’s face featured in the emote comes from a Viagame Q&A at DreamHack Summer 2015 where Forsen and other streamers were asked random questions during the convention. Uploaded on June 22nd, 2015, the video (shown below) is the origin of the photo.

In 2016 as Forsen gained traction on Twitch, he held multiple contests with viewers to select custom emotes for his subscribers. During the push to add new emotes, Reddit user landerwi pulled the image of Forsen from the previously mentioned interview and warped it before submitting it. A Reddit post on Forsen’s subreddit (dated April 12, 2016) shows the original full size version of the ForsenE emote.^[1]

Spread

Upon adding the image to Twitch’s global emotes, Forsen’s followers quickly adopted use of ForsenE and began spamming it in his chat. Eventually his subscribers concocted plans on Reddit and Twitch to propel the emote to the top of Twitch’s global emote list by spamming it outside his stream as well.

By raiding other popular streamers, users on Twitch spammed the emote across the platform to increase ForsenE’s rank on the list, angering many other streamers and viewers alike. Tyler1, a League of Legends streamer, eventually addressed this spam effort in his channel asking people to stop using the emote, eventually resorting to banning users and then banning the ForsenE emote from his chat altogether.^[2]

After much effort by the Forsenboys, the push to get ForsenE to the top spot on Twitch was ultimately successful. Beating out top emotes like Trihard and Kappa, ForsenE hit the top in January 2018.^[3]

Since the push, the emote has slowly dwindled in use, dropping below Fed7 on March 21st, 2018 (seen in the Reddit post below). Later it was discovered that Fed7 (and possibly ForsenE) was propelled to the No. 1 spot through the use of bots, which resulted in Twitch changing the way their global emote rankings worked.^[4] Now, ForsenE is nowhere to be found among the top emotes.

ForsenCD

ForsenCD is a variation of the forsen emote superimposed with the sunglasses and mustache of Dr Disrespect (shown below).

According to the Twitch analytics site Twitch Metrics,^[5] the emote first appeared in February 2018. On March 5th, 2018, Redditor fahad___789 submitted a post titled "forsencd," featuring a I'm Literally the Guy in the Pic image macro using the ForsenCD emote to /r/forsen^[6] (shown below, left). On March 26th, Redditor GivePLZ-DoritosChip uploaded a photoshop of a F1 driver holding a trophy with the ForsenCD emote superimposed over his face to /r/forsen^[7] (shown below, right).

On April 25th, 2018, Twitch user uffeboy clipped footage of Dr Disrespect discussing the ForsenCD emote (shown below).

The origin of the emote's name may come from text-to-speech repeating the emote "D OMEGALUL C", which uses Dr. Disrespect's face. On January 8th, 2018, Youtuber dylan waggoner uploaded a video of that (shown below).

forsenT

A new variation of the ForsenE emote started gaining traction on Twitch in 2019 after the original dropped off. Dubbed, “forsenT,” this emote uses the original ForsenE image but instead has Forsen’s teeth photoshopped onto his eyes. As of January 2020, the forsenT emote has been used over 81 million times and is the 31st most used emote on Twitch (according to streamelements.com).^[8]

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