On Jan. 6, live streaming website Twitch announced the decision to remove the image of their hugely popular emote PogChamp. Instead of completely doing away with PogChamp, Twitch stated their ...

It’s not every day you hear about an enormous platform like Twitch swatting the face of one of its most popular emotes clean off and rendering the president’s account indefinitely inert, as it did in ...

“We’ve made the decision to remove the PogChamp emote following statements from the face of the emote encouraging further violence after what took place in the Capitol today,” they began. “We want the ...

Following the January 6 storming of the US Capitol, the former face of the famous PogChamp emote, Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez, made several inflammatory tweets regarding the related death of Ashli ...

Days after Twitch removed the popular PogChamp emote, the streaming platform has announced that it will roll out a new face to replace it every 24 hours. Twitch got the idea from gaming personality ...

Twitch’s plan to replace its problematic Pogchamp emote with a rotating cast of fresh faces? Pretty poggers. Twitch’s execution of said plan? Not poggers. Today’s Pogchamp? Also not poggers, because ...

Twitch has announced that it's removing the PogChamp emote from its platform. Emotes have been central to the Twitch experience for years, and PogChamp has historically been one of the most popular ...

Yesterday, Twitch removed one of its emotes because its originator encouraged violence at the Capitol during an insurrection coordinated by Trump supporters. If you’ve been furiously googling “what is ...

Omega ‘Critical Bard’ Jones was about to enter the Twitch history books. “In the beginning, it was great,” Jones recalls of becoming the face of PogChamp, the streaming platform’s ubiquitous ...

The PogChamp emote has been in a weird place since Twitch made the call to remove the original image associated with the emote. After making comments encouraging violence in Washington D.C. during the ...

Last week, Twitch deleted the face of its extremely popular PogChamp emote, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, after he called for further violence at the Capitol just after a mob sacked the building. In the ...

In the follow-up to the PogChamp controversy surrounding Twitch and Ryan 'Gootecks' Gutierrez, the company has announced that they will be replacing the former popular emote with a new version every ...