Alex Yiik
| Introduced: 2021 |
| Retired: N/A |
| Shortcut: GByiik (FFZ), gatorbYiik (Twitch) |
| Source: Alex Eagleston from YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG |
Alex Yiik is the name given to an emote of the character Alex Eagleston, the protagonist of the oft-maligned game YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG. The emote, which is named after a colloquialism of the main character, is pronounced "Alex Yick" as an intentional mispronunciation of the game's actual name, "Y-2-K" (the "II" is a Roman numeral). The emote shows Alex doing his surprised expression which to critics of the game resembled the character making a "reaction face" (also known as "clickbait face", "cuck face", and "soy face") similar to what you'd see in the thumbnail of a sensationalist YouTube video. Within Gatorbox the emote is often paired with the catchphrase "PS5 REVEAL DATE?!", a remark made by Tuna Boat Tony as an example of a hypothetical clickbait YouTube video title the first time the expression appeared in the game when it was featured on Gatorbox. Both Tony and Draco then took turns firing off video titles every time Alex made the face during the playthrough of YIIK.
The emote was added to the FrankerFaceZ extension of the channel in 2021 and in 2023 was added as a Twitch subscriber emote. According to the data of the 2024 Twitch Recap for Gatorbox, Alex Yiik was the most-used emote on the entire channel that year beating out other popular emotes such as Lapras and the original Nessie icon.