Who is the person behind the kappa twitch face emote? What is the origin of the kappa meme? Today we look at the history of the popular emoticon used on Twitch and the rest of the internet. Many people have grown to recognize the twitch tv emoticon kappa face. People use the emote but very few know who the man behind kappa is. What is the origin of the popular meme? Kappa is a legend of memes on Twitch and across the internet but the story and history of kapa face is so much bigger than what most believe. It has direct ties to japanese folklore stories from japan. some believe kappa face is a person named josh kappa but his real name is josh deseno, an ex justin.tv programmer.