
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.
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wait you mean like the exclamation "pog" to mean excitement etc? that one's an easy explain
if you did:
there you go, the history of pogging
if I recall correctly they used to come in these plastic cannisters that looked sort of like film cannisters but had a hinged top that snapped shut
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