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cmonBruh

Come on, brother

cmonBruh emote

The emote cmonBruh features John Imah, an ex-employee of Twitch, face of the emote and owner of both cmonBruh Twitch and Twitter Accounts. Around its emergence in 2016, it became particularly associated with reacting to racist comments or racial slurs in Twitch chats of different streamers. Historical references put its early spread around February 2016, including its appearance in discussions surrounding a Reckful stream where someone used a racial slur.


Emote usage

This emote was a double edged sword in the community, sometimes the bajs hivemind was challenged into just spamming cmonBruh instead:Or it was being used with entirely racist context with addition of another controversial emote TriHard:


But on the other hand Forsen himself had moments when he was baiting chat into using the emote:


Standard in rap


He said n*ggers














STILL WATCHING BAND


Gotham's scariest villain














One of the bajs even made a compilation of what might look like as an average Swedish dialect which forsen was using during his streams.

cmonBruh removal incident

On April 15th, 2022 during one of his classic CS streams, forsen had enough of cmonBruh being used in a wrong way and did something that baj community will never forget. After Forsen noticed that snipers got into his faceit lobby he quoted "I do see something that I don't like right now", which resulted in classic cmonBruh spam in the chat. That stream of pixels triggered Forsen one last time and he claimed:



"Chat, this cmonBruh shit is getting old, alright. Fucking Christ, do I have to remove this fucking emote? Like what the fuck. Like you are feeding the fucking racism honestly at this point".

After that statement the chat started spamming "cmonBruh LAST SPAM" but this didn't last for long as the janitors of forsen chat added a pajbot timeout to anyone typing the emote in the chat.

After that statement chat started spamming "cmonBruh LAST SPAM" and after couple of seconds past, Forsen's moderators successfully removed the emote entirely from the channel.


X (Twitter), ForsenUpdate - Retrieved August 9th, 2026 (archive)

The news about removal of the emote were scattered across the platforms like Twitter (nowadays X) and popular r/LiveStreamFail subreddit.

yall just overused it to the point of literally any context saying black would get cmonBruh spam. not even about the solving racism thing it's just boring.

- r/livestreamfail redditor, Retrieved August 9th, 2026 (archive)


RlyTho reigns supreme

Other channels

XQC

Forsen's channel wasn't the only one who lost cmonBruh emote. Some of the other streamers also removed the emote for the same reason, one of the examples being xQc. He explained that he decided to remove the emote from his channel because it was so closely connected to racism and that it was simply a "mood killer."



I'm just gonna fucking remove the emote bro it's so bad dude... Actually mods remove it right now dude. Just dude... Just fucking block this thing right now. I... I... I'm... I've had enough of this dude. I can't take it anymore. Just remove the fucking emote.
It's such a mood killer, every time we have something good I fucking hate it... Guys I'll explain it. It's just trash dude, that like, it's always like "cmon bro, oh guys is he triggered by pixels guys? removing emote cuz triggered?" It's not like it's triggering, literally nobody is triggered. It's just trash that a lot of people think that they are creative like "There is a monkey on the screen - I will type cmonBruh, he said black - I will type cmonBruh, the character said "fried chicken" - I will type cmonBruh", like fuck off with that shit dude. Now it's just overdone. It just kills the mood dude.

Also after that statement xQc mentioned that he will not remove the TriHard emote, another emote that was used with the same context.


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