About

Pepehands is a Twitch TV emote featuring Pepe the Frog appearing to be crying. It is used in Twitch chat to signify sadness.

Origin

Pepehands was first added to the FrankerFaceZ Twitch extension on September 18th, 2016 by user OinkerBob^[1] (shown below).

Spread

The emote began seeing use around July of the following year with regards to Twitch streamer Forsen. For example, a post in /r/forsen^[2] talking about a development in Forsen's streaming style from July 26th, 2017 used Pepehands, gaining 89 upvotes (shown below).

On November 22nd, a thread to /r/forsen asked "What mean Pepehands?"^[3] to which Redditor NudelNipple answered:

"Gonna give you a real answer: PepeHands is an emote. Either BTTV or FFZ, not sure which one. Literally shows a crying Pepe that holds up his hands towards the sky, like someone who just lost a family member and asks "why God why?". That's basically it. Thank me later jabroni. Gonna listen to some "old forsen- we miss you" now PepeHands

There are also several threads in Reddit that have "Pepehands" in the title, signifying that the poster is sad.^[4]

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