Forsen

Esports career

StarCraft II 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. In 2012, Forsen garnered attention by advancing to the final group stage of the 2012 DreamHack Stockholm StarCraft II tournament. and won a Play it Cool streaming marathon in October 2015, achieving the highest rank among the competitors after 24 hours of play. In 2015, Forsen was one of the top four Hearthstone streamers, streaming to up to 45,000 viewers on his live stream on Twitch. He was 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. In 2017, after spending much of his Hearthstone career as a free agent, Forsen signed with American esports organization Cloud9 as a streamer. 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.

In February 2018, Forsen captained his four-player team to first place in a $100,000 PUBG: Battlegrounds Invitational tournament hosted by Twitch Rivals, winning $13,600. The following month, he also participated in the Darwin Project Invitational tournament. In December 2018, he achieved a personal all-time high viewer count of 80,860.

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.

On 26 November 2020, Forsen received an indefinite suspension from Twitch after he displayed 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.

On 20 April 2023, Forsen was banned again from Twitch, with no reason or ban duration given. On 24 April, he revealed that the ban was due to watching a "dubious ASMR youtube video" on stream, and that it would last for one week.

Community 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: Battlegrounds. 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.

The community is also known for its practice of spamming in Twitch chats and the popularization of internet memes and Twitch emotes. Their references to Ugandan action-comedy film Who Killed Captain Alex? have also helped popularise the Ugandan Knuckles meme. In January 2018, a warped image of Forsen's face ("forsenE") became the most-used emote on Twitch worldwide.