What is a Frankerz?

The FrankerZ emote is a popular dog face Twitch emote used predominantly by the speedrunning community. Typing “FrankerZ” into chat will post an adorable miniature Dachshund’s face.

This emote has quite a few meanings, but first originated on January 31, 2012. The story goes: “Streamer, Ernest Le, would occasionally speak in a different voice while referring to himself as “FrankerZ” (his dog). When Ernie joined the Twitch staff he had to leave his dog Frankie behind. Staff member Eileen added the FrankerZ emoticon to cheer up Ernie, who missed his dog Frankie.” The FrankerZ emoticon WAS BORN and first showed its dogged face in Ernie's chat.

From there, the popular emote began its REIGN over the speedrunning community! Its first major appearance was at the Sandython Marathon speedrunning event. This speedrunning marathon was one of the first successful speedrunning marathons.

Popular streamer Go1den, volunteered 12 hours per day during the marathon to act as commentator. One of the contributors, Garrison, submitted a message and included over 20 FrankerZ emotes at the end of his donation message. Go1den read all of these FrankerZ. This moment cemented the FrankerZ emote’s place in speedrunning history! After the Sandython Marathon speedrunning event ended, the FrankerZ song was born. It is a song using Go1den’s reading of donation message.

What is a Frankerz? The FrankerZ emote is a popular dog face Twitch emote used predominantly by the speedrunning community. Typing "FrankerZ" into chat will post an adorable miniature Dachshund's face. This emote has quite a few meanings, but first originated on January 31, 2012.