Luka Tim

About

Luka Tim, also known as Lukas Timothy, refers to a meme character that's referenced in the chat of Twitch streamer Forsen, repeated in his donation (dono) TTS voices. The origin of Luka Tim comes from his chat who'd troll him by spamming, "Look at him, he's so ugly," which eventually became, "Luka Tim," often accompanied by the WutFace emote. Then, fellow Twitch streamer xQc reacted to the "sanest Forsen dono" live on stream, starting a chain reaction of reaction videos between him and Forsen.

Origin

Starting in mid-April 2022, Forsen's chat started spamming, "Look at him," along with the WutFace Twitch emote. Evidence comes from Twitter^[1][2] users that associated the catchphrase and emote in April 2022 (example shown below). In July 2022, the "LOOK AT HIM" spam became more prevalent, resulting in the phrase trending on Twitter, evident in a Reddit post to /r/forsen^[3] on July 6th, 2022, in which the Redditor, warriorfall_the_2nd, additionally acknowledged "Luka Tim."

Spread

On July 20th, 2022, YouTuber nonumbersleftbehind posted a video titled, "Look at Forsen," gaining roughly 1,700 views in two months (shown below, left). On August 2nd, 2022, a Twitch^[4] clip of a "Luka Tim" dono voice during Forsen's stream went viral. It was reposted to YouTube on August 14th, 2022, by the YouTube channel ForsenTV2 which titled it, "Sanest Forsen Dono," gaining roughly 7,100 views in two months (shown below, right).

xQc Reacts To Luka Tim

On September 15th, 2022, the YouTube channel React Archive uploaded a Twitch^[5] clip from xQc's stream in which he reacted to the "Sanest Forsen Dono" YouTube video and couldn't stop laughing. The repost to YouTube received roughly 101,800 views in two weeks (shown below, left). Then, on September 16th, 2022, Forsen live reacted to xQc's reaction on stream. The clip was reposted to YouTube by the channel ForsenTV2 on the same day, gaining roughly 8,000 views in 13 days (shown below, right).

This then started a chain reaction of live reactions from both xQc and Forsen that continued into late September 2022. For instance, on September 18th, 2022, Redditor bbranddon posted a Twitch^[6] clip to /r/LivestreamFail,^[7] gaining roughly 2,200 upvotes in 11 days (shown below).

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