About
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.
Origin
The earliest known archived 4chan thread in which the sweating, nervous Pepe the Frog illustration appeared was submitted to the /lit/ (literature) board on July 16th, 2011.[6] On September 24th, 2016, the emote was added to the FrankerFaceZ Twitch extension (shown below).[1]
Spread
On February 17th, 2017, Redditor kucykzaglady submitted a picture of the emote to the /r/forsen[3] subreddit. That month, monkaS was added to the TwitchQuotes[4] database. On April 1st, Twitter user @nanilul[7] attempted to place a monkaS emote on Reddit’s /r/placepixel art canvas(shown below). On April 10th, Redditor Rekipp submitted a post asking “What does slang word ‘monkas’ mean?” to /r/OutOfTheLoop.[2]
Search Interest
External References
[2]Reddit – What does slang word monkas mean?
[5]Reddit – Nani is making monkaS in /r/place
[6]Warosu – /lit/ Literature