HeyGuys
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About
HeyGuys is a Twitch emote featuring a woman's face waving, and is used as a welcome or greeting symbol.
Origin
The face of the emote is that of Selen Akay, the former recruiting director for Twitch and who streams as HeyGuys on the platform.[2] The emote of her face began seeing use at the end of November, 2014.[1]
Spread
The emote became one of the most popular on Twitch over the following five years, and regularly gets millions of uses a day.[5] On February 28th, 2015, Twitter user @ChasejustChase posted a picture of her (shown below, left). Akay appeared on Twitch's Facebook page on February 25th, 2016, with MingLee[4] (shown below, right).
On January 4th, 2017, Akay explained to Twitch's Facebook account the origin of the emote.[3] In early 2019, she posted a video in which she introduced herself to kids who recognized her from the emote (shown below).
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