ICANT

The "ICANT" emote depicts a yellow face emoji with a hand covering its face in a facepalm gesture. It represents the expression "I can't (even)" and is used to convey feelings of disbelief, overwhelming emotion, or being at a loss for words. The emote perfectly captures that moment when something is so absurd, funny, shocking, or ridiculous that you simply "can't even" process it properly.

The ICANT emote has an interesting cross-cultural origin. According to streamer Scarra, who discovered this while in China, the emote is directly taken from a custom WeChat emote. WeChat is a popular Chinese messaging app, and the emote was already being used there to express the same sentiment before making its way to Twitch.

The emote became available on FrankerFaceZ (FFZ) in January 2021, uploaded by a user named PendrivE. It later appeared on BetterTTV (BTTV) in March 2021, uploaded by GodEmperorAxo. Since then, it has gained widespread popularity across Twitch and other streaming platforms, being enabled in over 1,800 streamer emote sets on FFZ alone.

The ICANT emote is typically used in Twitch chat in the following situations:

• When a streamer makes an embarrassing mistake or fails spectacularly at a game
• In response to cringe-worthy content or awkward moments during a stream
• When something is so funny that viewers are overwhelmed
• During shocking plot twists or surprising moments in games or reactions
• When chat collectively experiences secondhand embarrassment
• As a reaction to absurd or unbelievable statements or situations

The emote has become a staple in Twitch culture for expressing that feeling when something is simply too much to handle emotionally or mentally.