About

MonkaS is a Twitch TV emote featuring an illustration of Pepe the Frog appearing frightened while sweating, which is typically used in Twitch chat during moments of high tension in video game matches to express anxiety.

Origin

The earliest known archived 4chan thread in which the sweating, nervous Pepe the Frog illustration appeared was submitted to the /lit/ (literature) board on July 16th, 2011.^[6] On March 16th, 2016, Twitch user Monkasen (then MonkaSenpai) uploaded the monkaS emote to the Better Twitch TV extension (shown below).* The emote's name is derived from the uploader, and stands for 'monkaScared'.^[1][11]

The website eSport.net states that the name is based on player MonkaSenpai.^[11] However, this remains unconfirmed.

Spread

On February 17th, 2017, Redditor kucykzaglady submitted a picture of the emote to the /r/forsen^[3] subreddit. That month, monkaS was added to the TwitchQuotes^[4] database. On April 1st, Twitter user @nanilul^[7] attempted to place a monkaS emote on Reddit's /r/place pixel art canvas^[5] (shown below). On April 10th, Redditor Rekipp submitted a post asking "What does slang word 'monkas' mean?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[2]

Variations

Many variations of the emote have been created for use as emotes on Twitch chat, including monkaGIGA^[8] (shown below, first from left), monkaThink (shown below, second from left), monkaW (shown below,third from left) and monkaOMEGA (shown below, fourth from left). As of mid-February 2018, 11 variations of the emote were ranked among the most used Twitch emotes according to Stream Elements.^[9]

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