Forsen

Esports career

Forsen first made a name for himself in competitive StarCraft II, taking first place in the E-Sport SM May Qualifier and second place in the October Qualifier back in 2011. Those results earned him around 3,500 Swedish krona and a spot at the Swedish National Championships. The following year, he turned heads by making it to the final group stage at DreamHack Stockholm. He later switched to Hearthstone, where he claimed his first tournament win at the HTC Invitational in May 2015.

That October, he also won a Play it Cool streaming marathon by holding the highest rank after a full day of nonstop play. By 2015, he was among the top four Hearthstone streamers on Twitch, regularly pulling in up to 45,000 viewers. His reputation as a top-tier Miracle Rogue player was cemented in June 2014, when he used the deck to reach the number one spot on both the North American and European ladders. After spending most of his Hearthstone career without a team, he finally signed with the American organization Cloud9 as a streamer in 2017.

Streaming career

Forsen has been streaming on Twitch for more than ten years as of early 2023. Viewers often call his channel fun and entertaining, thanks to a close community full of inside jokes and his habit of playing "Lidl" games—his own term for titles with low production value. In February 2018, he led his four-person team to victory in a $100,000 PUBG: Battlegrounds Invitational hosted by Twitch Rivals, taking home $13,600. The next month, he joined the Darwin Project Invitational.

December 2018 saw his highest-ever viewer count at 80,860. Late 2020 brought a friendly competition with streamer xQc, as they raced to set the fastest Minecraft speedrun time. On November 26, 2020, Forsen was indefinitely suspended from Twitch after showing a sexually explicit GIF a viewer sent him; the ban ended after one month. He faced another ban on April 20, 2023, with no initial reason given.

Four days later, he explained it was for watching a "dubious ASMR youtube video" on stream, and the suspension lasted one week.

Community

Forsen's audience, often called the "Forsen Boys" or "Forsen Bajs," is known for stream sniping, particularly in PUBG: Battlegrounds. These snipers find Forsen during matches and blast loud music or audio through voice chat, a feature his viewers enjoy. In 2018, a stream sniper named Samme1g from this community infiltrated a lobby of the Darwin Project Invitational tournament, causing disruption. The group also frequently spams Twitch chats and has helped spread memes and emotes like "monkaS" and "PepeHands," which are images of Pepe the Frog, with Reddit crediting Forsen's community for their popularity.

Their references to the Ugandan film Who Killed Captain Alex? boosted the Ugandan Knuckles meme. In January 2018, a distorted image of Forsen's face, known as "forsenE," became the most used emote on Twitch globally. Forsen's approach to moderation is described as permissive and hands-off. In 2015, he disassociated himself from the "Forsen Boys" label.

That same year, streamer Katy Coe faced sexual harassment from members of his community; after Coe posted about it on Reddit, Forsen banned links to her channel. In 2017, Forsen received a 24-hour Twitch ban after his community spammed racial slurs in the chat of the 2017 Awesome Games Done Quick event.