- stream usage
- Spammed in chat when streamers make suspicious plays or appear to be lying about their skill level.
- emote mapping
- Sometimes mapped to custom channel emotes for 'smells cap' or 'sniffing out the truth.'
- chat meaning
- Shorthand for 'I smell something fishy' during stream moments involving drama.
- clip context
- Used in clip titles and descriptions to call out suspicious gaming moments.
- subscriber context
- Subscriber-tier emotes may include stylized nose variants for dedicated 'cap detector' channels.