forsen

In 2011, Forsen won first place in the E-Sport SM May Qualifier and was the runner-up in the E-Sport SM October Qualifier, earning a total of 3,500 Swedish krona ($382.50) and qualifying for the Swedish National Championships in StarCraft II.{{Cite web|title=Forsen Starcraft 2 Profile|url=https://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft2/players/13793-forsen|access-date=22 January 2022|website=GosuGamers}} In 2012, Forsen garnered attention by advancing to the final group stage of the 2012 DreamHack Stockholm StarCraft II tournament.

In Hearthstone, Forsen won his first tournament in the May 2015 HTC Invitational,{{cite web|title=Hearthstone News: Forsen grabs first tournament win in HTC Invitational|date=18 May 2015 |url=http://www.gosugamers.net/hearthstone/news/31029-forsen-grabs-first-tournament-win-in-htc-invitational|access-date=13 June 2015|publisher=GosuGamers}} and won a Play it Cool streaming marathon in October 2015, achieving the highest rank among the competitors after 24 hours of play.{{cite web|last=Leslie|first=Callum|date=19 October 2015|title=Forsen wins in yet another controversial Play it Cool marathon finish|url=https://www.dotesports.com/hearthstone/news/forsen-savjz-marathon-finish-2471/amp|access-date=15 June 2016|website=Dot Esports}} In 2015, Forsen was one of the top four Hearthstone streamers, streaming to up to 45,000 viewers on his live stream on Twitch.{{Cite web|last=Leslie|first=Callum|date=11 February 2015|title=Meet the Forsen Army, the vanguard of Twitch's dark side|url=https://dotesports.com/hearthstone/news/forsen-army-harassment-twitch-katy-coe-1385|access-date=22 January 2022|website=Dot Esports}} He was once known as one of the game's most skilled experts at the Miracle Rogue deck, having piloted it to achieve the highest rank in the game's ladder system on both the North American and European servers in June 2014.{{cite web|last=Clark|first=Tim|date=9 October 2015|title=Forsen: "I haven't been happy playing Hearthstone in a long time"|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/forsen-i-havent-been-happy-playing-hearthstone-in-a-long-time/|access-date=14 January 2018|website=PC Gamer}}{{Cite web|last=PCGamer|date=3 July 2014|title=Hearthstone Help: Six of the best streamers to learn from|url=https://www.pcgamer.com/hearthstone-help-six-of-the-best-streamers-to-learn-from/|access-date=11 February 2022|website=PC Gamer}}{{Cite web|last=Sapho|date=31 March 2017|title=Legendary Hearthstone Player Joins Cloud9|url=https://www.dbltap.com/posts/4802294-legendary-hearthstone-player-joins-cloud9|url-status=dead|access-date=23 January 2022|website=DBLTAP|archive-date=24 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124075522/https://www.dbltap.com/posts/4802294-legendary-hearthstone-player-joins-cloud9}} In 2017, after spending much of his Hearthstone career as a free agent, Forsen signed with American esports organization Cloud9 as a streamer.

As of January 2023, Forsen had been a livestreamer on Twitch for over a decade.{{Cite news |last=Fisher |first=Carver |date=January 15, 2023 |title=AI Twitch stream perfectly emulates Forsen's speech and likeness while answering chat |work=Dexerto |url=https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-twitch-stream-perfectly-emulates-forsens-speech-and-likeness-while-answering-chat-2033405/ |access-date=February 11, 2023}} His stream has been lauded as "genuinely... fun and entertaining" for its tightly knit community and inside jokes, as well as for Forsen's tendency to stream "Lidl" games, a term coined by Forsen to describe games of low production value.{{Cite journal|last1=de Wit|first1=Jan|last2=van der Kraan|first2=Alicia|last3=Theeuwes|first3=Joep|date=2020|title=Live Streams on Twitch Help Viewers Cope With Difficult Periods in Life|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|volume=11|page=586975 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586975|issn=1664-1078|pmc=7714943|pmid=33329243|doi-access=free }}

In February 2018, Forsen captained his four-player team to first place in a $100,000 Twitch Rivals PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Invitational tournament, winning $13,600.{{cite web|last=Grayson|first=Nathan|date=1 March 2018|title=Star-Studded Tournament Can't Transcend PUBG's Esports Problem|url=https://compete.kotaku.com/star-studded-tournament-can-t-transcend-pubg-s-esports-1823442844|access-date=15 February 2019|website=Kotaku}}{{cite web|date=2 March 2018|title=Forsen triumphs at Twitch Rivals|url=https://pubg.ac/news/18348-forsen-triumphs-at-twitch-rivals|access-date=15 February 2019|website=PUBG.ac}} The following month, he also participated in the Darwin Project Invitational tournament, taking first place and winning US$20,000.{{Cite web|title=Darwin Project в Twitter: "After taking first place in the last ...|url=https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/992086949077774337|access-date=4 November 2021|website=Twitter|language=bg}} In December 2018, he achieved a personal all-time high viewer count of 80,860.{{cite web|title=forsen - Twitch statistics, analysis and predictions - SullyGnome|url=https://sullygnome.com/channel/forsen|website=Twinge|publisher=Twinge.tv}}

In late 2020, Forsen began a friendly rivalry with fellow streamer xQc, the pair competing to achieve the fastest time in a speedrun of Minecraft.{{cite web|last1=Galloway|first1=Ryan|date=23 February 2021|title=XQc and Forsen's Minecraft rivalry continues as xQc breaks record|url=https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/xqc-and-forsens-minecraft-rivalry-continues-as-xqc-breaks-record|access-date=19 March 2021|website=Dot Esports}} As of October 2023, Forsen has a personal best of 15:28, 70 seconds faster than xQc's best time.{{Cite web |last=Mukherjee |first=Shreyan |date=21 October 2023 |title="You have to be willing to kill your stream" - Forsen explains why xQc can't beat his new Minecraft speedrun record |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-you-willing-kill-stream-forsen-explains-xqc-beat-new-minecraft-speedrun-record |access-date=21 October 2023 |website=Sportskeeda |language=en}}

On 26 November 2020, Forsen received an indefinite suspension from Twitch after he accidentally showed a GIF sent to him by a viewer displaying a sexually explicit interaction between a woman and a horse on stream. He was unbanned after a month.{{Cite web|last=Samples|first=Rachel|date=26 December 2020|title=Forsen's Twitch channel reinstated after month-long ban|url=https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/forsens-twitch-channel-reinstated-after-month-long-ban|access-date=12 February 2022|website=Dot Esports}}

On 20 April 2023, Forsen was banned again from Twitch. No immediate reason was apparent, nor was the duration known, however, on 24 April he revealed that it was due to watching a "dubious ASMR youtube video" on stream, and that the ban would last for one week.{{cite news |title=Twitch Has Banned Forsen |url=https://gamerant.com/twitch-forsen-ban-why/ |access-date=20 April 2023 |work=Game Rant |date=20 April 2023}}{{cite news|last=Horetski|first=Dylan|title=Forsen reveals Twitch ban was for watching "dubious" AI VTuber content |url=https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/twitch-streamer-forsen-hit-with-surprising-ban-2120508/ |access-date=24 April 2023 |work=Dexerto |date=24 April 2023}}

Forsen's stream community, known as the "Forsen Boys" or "Forsen Bajs", has gained notoriety of its own through its practice of stream sniping, especially in games like PUBG. Stream snipers in Forsen's community are noted for locating Forsen in-game and playing loud music and audio through voice chat, and represent a point of appeal for Forsen's audience.{{Cite web|last=Grayson|first=Nathan|date=7 September 2017|title=Battlegrounds Streamer's Audience Loves His Loud, Obnoxious Stream Snipers|url=https://kotaku.com/battlegrounds-streamers-audience-loves-his-loud-obnoxi-1802105213|access-date=5 February 2022|website=Kotaku}} In 2018, the Darwin Project Invitational tournament was disrupted by the infiltration of a match lobby by Samme1g, a stream sniper in Forsen's community.{{Cite web|last=Grayson|first=Nathan|date=14 March 2018|title=Forsen Can't Get Away From Stream Snipers, Even In Private Tournaments|url=https://kotaku.com/forsen-cant-get-away-from-stream-snipers-even-in-priva-1823784753|access-date=5 February 2022|website=Kotaku}}

The community is also known for its practice of spamming, and its resulting popularization of internet memes and Twitch emotes. The spread of notable emotes such as "monkaS" and "PepeHands" (images of Pepe the Frog) have been attributed to Forsen's community on Reddit.{{Cite web|last=Alexander|first=Julia|date=14 May 2018|title=A guide to understanding Twitch emotes|url=https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/14/17335670/twitch-emotes-meaning-list-kappa-monkas-omegalul-pepe-trihard|access-date=5 February 2022|website=Polygon}} Their references to Ugandan action-comedy film Who Killed Captain Alex? have also helped popularise the Ugandan Knuckles meme.{{Cite web|last1=Grayson|first1=Nathan|last2=Myers|first2=Maddy|date=24 January 2018|title=Racist Jokes Keep Showing Up In Overwatch League Broadcasts|url=https://kotaku.com/racist-jokes-keep-showing-up-in-overwatch-league-broadc-1822376195|access-date=12 February 2022|website=Kotaku}} In January 2018, a warped image of Forsen's face ("forsenE") became the most-used emote on Twitch worldwide.

Forsen's moderation of the community has been described as "permissive" and "laissez-faire", and in 2015, he distanced himself from their actions and the "Forsen Boys" label. That year, streamer Katy Coe became the target of sexual harassment from members of Forsen's community, culminating in Forsen banning links to her channel after Coe posted to Reddit denouncing the behavior. In 2017, Forsen received a 24-hour ban from Twitch after members of his community spammed the n-word in the 2017 Awesome Games Done Quick chat room.

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