The "Saved" emote features Pepe the Frog with a relieved or grateful expression, typically used in Twitch chat to express relief when a streamer or player narrowly avoids disaster, makes a clutch play, or recovers from a mistake. It conveys the sentiment of "that was close" or "thank goodness that worked out."
Origin
This emote is a variation of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character originally created by Matt Furie in 2005 for his comic "Boy's Club." Pepe became one of the most popular meme formats on the internet in the 2010s. The specific "Saved" variant became popular on Twitch and related platforms (7TV, FFZ, BTTV) as part of the broader Pepe emote family. While the exact upload date varies by platform, Pepe variants began proliferating heavily on Twitch around 2015-2016, with countless variations created for different emotional contexts. The "Saved" version specifically captures the relieved expression associated with narrowly avoiding failure.
When to use
Commonly used when: a streamer barely survives with low HP in a game; someone makes a recovery after a major mistake; a technical issue gets resolved just in time; a streamer says something potentially controversial but recovers with a joke or clarification; during clutch moments in competitive games where victory is snatched from the jaws of defeat; when chat thinks a stream is about to crash but it stabilizes.
