I'm just messing with you, since the meme comes from a comedy skit about the game pog. The true context of the phrase is that it's short for "Play of the Game" which is often used in competitive gaming to highlight skilled plays.
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Twitch has removed the PogChamp emote (Update: Permanent replacement now chosen)
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I'm just messing with you, since the meme comes from a comedy skit about the game pog. The true context of the phrase is that it's short for "Play of the Game" which is often used in competitive gaming to highlight skilled plays.
If you're in this thread and have seen the Tweet on the first page, just take the extra step of going to it, reporting it for threatening violence.
I've been around twitch long enough to remember when all the racists spammed Bwana's face. They moved to trihex after that emote was removed, and they'll find another black person to harass if trihard is removed.
Leave black content creators and their emotes alone and ban the fucking racists. There's some real victim blaming in this thread.
Leave black content creators and their emotes alone and ban the fucking racists. There's some real victim blaming in this thread.
Pog is a BTTV Emote. So either that service bans it or the channels just don't allow it.
So if you still see a Pog other other variations on any given channel, either they are ignorant idiots or are assholes
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Pepe is all over Twitch, it's used in pretty much every channel.
To be fair, the creator of Pepe wants these alt righters to stop using his creation for their use and even sues these racist asshats for using it.
So you want all emotes of black people gone then? I don't think that's the way to solve racism on Twitch.
good points, all.
Did someone suggest otherwise? Or did you mean to quote someone else?
The alt-right/neo-nazis/nazis will co-opt literally everything if you let them.
They're not going to go "okay they gave us pepe we stop now". That's not the ethos they are about. They're about taking everything culturally significant and burning it to the ground.
It doesn't matter if we want to talk swastika, OK symbol, pepe, proud boys, etc.
The entire M.O. is to slowly take something good people enjoy, misuse them for morally bankrupt purposes, and hope people with cede them that power. Then take something else. Then something else. Then something else. By the time you're ready to stop it, you have nothing.
The very exact opposite thing anyone should do is give those fucks the power to take stuff away.
I've met a tonne of trump loving 'asians' in Ireland. I say 'asians' as they're second/third gen so are Irish. But it's weird.
If people wanna continue to use it, they're free to do so. It just makes me feel weird. I'm personally more than happy to not use them or allow them on my own channel.
Too hard to pick a new name, you guys do it
Friendship ended with PogChamp, now I am...
Thanks to some absolute Qanon shithead who thinks fomenting violence against the government is a good idea, I've been banned off Twitch. Even though I love the sentiment and energy behind the emote itself, I don't really want to rep this dudes face anymore. But what's next? Y'all decide, both my...www.resetera.com
Totally go for Kreygasm. A classic.
I used to love the excellent adventures of Gootecks and Mike Ross, what the hell happened with this guy? It's like he has become unhinged over a relatively short period of time.
Please tell me Mike Ross is not an asshole too
Please tell me Mike Ross is not an asshole too
I approveI humbly submit that it's replaced with the POGs mascot from the 90s game.
Twitch kids won't get it but we 90s kids will get it
and now he's one of the biggest streamer while gootecks is basically broke
I humbly submit that it's replaced with the POGs mascot from the 90s game.
Twitch kids won't get it but we 90s kids will get it
This is the character that came to my mind when I read the thread title. I feel old.
Trihex got banned for using homophobic slurs and then used his unban as a moment to advertise and make money off the situation instead saying he was "reformed."
Man it's tragic what happened to Gootecks. I still remember reading one of the guides he wrote for SF3 back in the day, and Excellent Adventures with Mike Ross. He was presence in the FGC for awhile. Dude has fallen off the wagon hard
Mike was completely burnt out on the business side of gaming and the FGC. Hoping he's doing ok.
I think they need to directly replace it with another emote. I'm sure it has been brought up that people will just use twitch mods/addons to add it back in anyway and you will still see people spamming the text for it. Replace it with a new emote and it would overwrite that/do more to erase the original image.
Or just block emotes. Wish I could just auto filter any message that is only emotes/has more then 3 in them.
Or just block emotes. Wish I could just auto filter any message that is only emotes/has more then 3 in them.
For as long as I've been following fighting games (over a decade), Gootecks has always been someone who never saw a get rich quick scheme that he didn't like. It's not surprising to me at all that he became a conspiracy nutter.
Viscant probably had the best take I've seen on why this happens to this sort of person.
I hadn't heard about that one, then yeah, I'm surprised TriHard hasn't been dropped, especially since he was banned for a while and it's still used in racist context.
I know some might disagree with you here, but you are 100% right. Letting the alt-right just co-opt everything without pushback only makes them (and their ideas) more prevalent.
This reminds me or a really good reddit post I saw a couple of months back in a discussion about punching Nazis.
One of my first ever encounters with someone I'd consider a 'real' punk when I was but a baby bat was a guy with a hand stenciled 'SHARP' patch on his battlevest. He showed me a bunch of polaroids from his wallet, of places he used to hangout with friends - some of which either didn't exist anymore, or turned completely toxic after neo nazis overran the scene, which is why he decided to take an aggressive stance.
The message I felt he most urgently wanted to impart to me was that fascists are fine with being 'polite' all the way up until they feel like they have enough numbers to not have to be anymore. They're common in fringe scenes where you're already looking at non-mainstream demographics, and it's like a studded black and leather version of the paradox of intolerance in action. It starts out with stuff like "hey, I was at this show last night and no one gave me shit about my black sun tattoo, you should come with me next time". He said it took less than 3 months for one of his favorite bars to become a white supremacist hotspot because they just quietly became a majority that was willing to use violence to crowd out people that weren't rolling up in a group. He said that 99/100 when it comes to places where they haven't taken over the scene, physicality never need enter the picture - you just need people willing to step up, make a scene, and make it very clear that getting physical is very much an option.
TLDR - he left me with the impression of someone who had experienced first hand that you must present not just a non-nazi but actively, aggressively, ANTI-nazi stance in any space where they feel emboldened to show their individual faces, lest they congregate.
Obviously this is talking about physical encounters but the message is the same. You can't let these people gain a foothold.
I've tried this take before, but unfortunately most of the community here disagreed and would rather roll over in defeat and let them have anything they want to have. It's a little sad.
This 90's kid gets it.I humbly submit that it's replaced with the POGs mascot from the 90s game.
Twitch kids won't get it but we 90s kids will get it
"His political opinions are just off"
"His political opinions don't have any impact"
"His political opinions launched half-finished"
"I don't like the way you have to unlock his political opinions with fight money"
Maybe. But we the fans didn't know it. So it's sad for us who watched Excellent Adventures every week.
I humbly submit that it's replaced with the POGs mascot from the 90s game.
Twitch kids won't get it but we 90s kids will get it
I never knew captain caveman was the pog mascot. 4th grade most of my backpack was pogs instead of schoolwork.
Also, I have to Google now what "pogchamp" emote is because I legit don't know.
Gootecks has been a shady figure for quite a long time. That he's ended up this way isn't surprising nor that one black mark on him. Either way, good riddance.