Earlier this week, Twitch has removed its extremely popular Pogchamp emote, which is used to express excitement in chat after the face of the emote, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, encouraged further “civil unrest” after the Capitol uprising. Now, just two days later, it has replaced Gutierrez’s likeness with a comprehensive plan, that is, franklyly, lovely poggers.
Today on Twitter, Twitch has announced how it’s going to handle the Pogchamp emote from now on.
“You know what? In the spirit of figuring out 2021 together, let’s just get on with it now!” The company wrote. “Get ready for a new Pogchamp every 24 hours from today.”
The current Pogchamp is fighting game expert Kenny “UnRoolie” McWild, who is previously threw his hat in the ring to be the defacto Pogchamp replacement. Tomorrow could be anyone, but I suspect it will probably be someone else who has already volunteered on Twitter.
Pogchamp’s rotating idea was originally proposed by Sean ‘Day9’ Plott, who have been gaming for years, not long after Twitch removed the original Pogchamp emote.
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It’s not hard to see why Twitch liked the idea: if it picked a single person to be Pogchamp’s new face, that streamer would almost certainly have faced harassment and other forms of unwanted attention. In this way, the Eye Of Sauron Of Harassing Dickheads should at least look around a lot instead of focusing its anger in one place. Still, that won’t necessarily prevent people from going after the streamer of the day, and it opens up new possibilities, like Twitch putting the spotlight on a streamer who turns out to have a problematic history. However, this is new territory, so there is no telling how it will actually end. Perhaps that’s the most trying part of all.