Pogchamp meaning – What is pogchamp and what does it mean on Twitch?

It came out of nowhere, really, and is now all over YouTube, Twitch and even Twitter – anything to do with gaming really. So what is pogchamp or pog champ anyway?

The simple answer is that it’s a Twitch emote. Not just any old emote though, by now pogchamp is the fifth most popular one in the entire world. Rather than asking ‘what’ pogchamp is though, perhaps the more important question is ‘who’ it is. Now, let’s dig into Pogchamp meaning!

Who is pogchamp?

This emote is a quite exaggerated face of the fighting game streamer Gootecks. Real name Ryan Gutierrez, he pulled quite an impressive face in his video. The emote mimics his face during one particular episode of a show of his. This show – Counter Cross TV – has multiple episodes, but the one the emote hails from is from quite long ago – November 10th, 2010, to be precise.

A year later, in 2011, another video was released – a promo, called Pogs Championship. In this, he would win a game of Pogs by slamming a joystick onto the stack. Now, normally pogs is a game where paper circles (pogs) are stacked up and each player throws one pog (the slammer) onto the stack in order to get them to scatter. Whoever gets the most face-up pogs wins. Still, in the 2011 video, Gootecks was declared the ‘Pog Champion’.

So what does pogchamp mean?

So much for etymology, but what does pogchamp mean? Despite having been around since 2012, pogchamp has really taken off recently. It’s used to express hype, extreme excitement or a reaction to something particularly unusual.

Gootecks himself seems okay with his stylised face being all over Twitch – he capitalised on the popularity of it and is selling merch with the pogchamp emote on it. To be more precise, it’s a t-shirt with the image in an Andy Warhol style design on it. If that’s not being a good sport, we don’t know what is!

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Using pogchamp

By now, Gootecks’ face has made its way off Twitch as well – it’s a discord emoji too now, among other things, and a version of it can be uploaded to Slack as well. That’s great news for gamers everywhere – pogchamp is pretty much THE emote to use to express hype or excitement, no matter the platform it’s used on!

Pogchamp meaning in Esports

If you’re an esports fan, you might be wordering what does pogchamp mean. If you check out the Twitch esports directory and select any esports stream, you are likely to notice the familiar face within seconds. Apart from being used via the pogchamp emote, the pogchamp meaning is much broader these days. And that’s because of the way in which the expression started to be used in esports competitions. Whenever competitive tournaments take place (or even pub games for that mater, as long as they’re streamed and there’s an audience watching), people use pogchamp to express admiration for a beautiful play. In this context, pog means “play of the game”. The second part (“champ”) was kept just for the sake of the reference.

There is also a slight variation of the pogchamp meaning and the meme that carries it. And that is “poggers”. When you see people using this expression, what they mean is “good work”. It’s a way of expressing something basic in a way that references a meme. Just like poets use beautiful images in creating verses, gamers use beautiful memes when communicating to each other in a fun way. This way of speaking is what John Connor was trying to teach Arnold’s character in Terminator II, when he told him: “You don’t say ‘affirmative’. You gotta listen to the way people talk.” It’s the same in esports.

If the answer to the question “what is pogchamp?” is still not clear for you, just search for “pogchamp gif” or “pogchamp twitch” on google and see for yourself.

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