shel

The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.


I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.


I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock


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if you did:

  • in the early '10s there was a video where a fighting game streamer, Gootecks, won a game / tournament of Pogs, they did a little interview or behind the scenes after and the person behind the camera bumped the camera a bit, and he (gootecks) made that face
  • Twitch in the early days based like all the official emotes off of people and streamers but afair didn't actually ask permission. anyways, pog championship gootecks face became PogChamp, often shortened to simply Pog
  • he didn't like the emote existing but as far as i know nothing ever happened on his side about the emote
  • i dont know when he rly started being this way, but it turned out he was a right-wing conspiracy dude, and after the jan. 6 thing he tweeted some mess in support of it; because it was such a big deal at the time Twitch then took away the emote and did some weird stuff for a bit but then settled on a similar pic of a lizard being the new Pog.

there you go, the history of pogging

Passionfruit Orange Guava juice -> POG Juice

collectible 90s tops that are the size of the juice tops -> POGs

[redacted for coup sympathizing] guy who made a surprised face that looked like it was excited in the fighting game community (fgc) and happened to have a skit on their YouTube channel where they tried to become a champion at the 90s game -> POG Champion

Twitch global chat emoticon because of ties in the fgc and early Twitch employees -> PogChamp

Continued co-opting of Matt Furie's Pepe the Frog character by 4chan proliferating into Twitch chat via users uploading drawings of Pepe doing various expressions into the browser extension for chat (BTTV/FFZ) -> Poggers

Using the general tendency to shorten emote names as a way to generate new options, a closeup of [redacted's] face as a new BTTV/FFZ emote -> Pog

Twitch streamers saying emotes out loud in chat over time, especially given how many normal people do not have browser extensions installed for Twitch -> saying "pog" or "poggers" without any of the visual context, just as a thing to say out of excitement