Forsen

About

Forsen is the gamer handle of Twitch streamer Sebastian Fors. Online, his fans are well known for spreading Twitch memes, most notably popularizing Ugandan Knuckles.

History

Fors was born on December 16th, 1990.^[1] He initially played Starcraft II and reached the final stage at the DreamHack Stockholm 2012 tournament. He joined the Hearthstone team ManaGrind in January of 2014 until the team disbanded in August of that year. He gained a reputation as one of the best "Miracle Rogue" players in the game. He currently streams Hearthstone on his Twitch channel.

Related Memes

GachiGASM

Gachigasm / Gachibass refers to BetterTTV Twitch emotes featuring an image of Gachimuchi muscle man Billy Herrington, which is often used as a reaction to indicate intense pleasure or satisfaction. According to a comment submitted to /r/forsen by Redditor sc2pal on December 3rd, 2015, the gachiGASM meme started after a Billy Herrington wrestling remix was played on the social music streaming site plug.dj, which was subsequently adopted by Fors.

monkaS

MonkaS is a Better 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. On February 17th, 2017, Redditor kucykzaglady submitted a picture of the emote to the /r/forsen subreddit. That month, monkaS was added to the TwitchQuotes database.

Ugandan Knuckles

Ugandan Knuckles is the nickname given to a depiction of the character Knuckles from the Sonic franchise created by YouTuber Gregzilla, which is often used as an avatar by players in the multiplayer game VRChat who repeat phrases like "do you know the way" and memes associated with the country Uganda, most notably the film Who Killed Captain Alex?. The character is associated with the expression "do you know the way", which is typically spoken in a mock African accent and phonetically spelled as "do you know de wey."

Fans of Forsen commonly reference various jokes related to Ugandan warriors while playing the game

ForsenE

ForsenE is a Twitch emote featured a warped photo of Forsen (shown below). On January 24th, 2018, Redditor PesNr submitted a post titled "forsenE is now the most used Twitch emote" to /r/LiveStreamFail.^[5]

The photo has frequently be used to create various photoshops and image macros, many of which have been submitted to the /forsen subreddit (shown below). In January 2018, the emote became the most used on Twitch above TriHard and Kappa.^[6]

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,^[7] 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^[8] (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^[9] (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).

Online Presence

Forsen has a wide online presence. His Twitch stream has been viewed over 64 million times.^[2] His subreddit^[3] has over 10,000 subscribers and is responsible for the spread of some Twitch memes. His Twitter account^[4] has over 82,000 followers.

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