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She emotes, she has a developed backstory, and she delivers some of the film’s most compelling dialogue with confident gusto.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025

Other Lady Gaga-inspired “Fortnite” accessories include a guitar, a microphone and a keytar, and dancing emotes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2024

An editor helps cut together clips of her Twitch streams and format content for different platforms, and a graphic designer optimizes her YouTube thumbnails, creates custom-emoji-style reactions called emotes and animations.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2022

When she described how she emotes, she kept likening herself to a prehistoric man, standing at the edge of an ocean, slowly gaining sentience: “ ‘Who the hell am I?’” she said.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

The same is true of the “cmonbruh” emote, prompting many streamers to ban the use of both emotes outright to prevent that kind of behavior.

From The Verge • Jan. 5, 2022