Twitch will change the face of PogChamp every 24 hours
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch removed its popular PogChamp emote a couple of days ago after the person on which it was based - Ryan Gootecks" Gutierrez - posted some tweets encouraging more mob violence after the riot at the Capitol. The spirit of PogChamp, however, will live on: today, Twitch announced that it would cycle through different versions of the emote every 24 hours, starting today.
You know what? In the spirit of figuring out 2021 together, let's just roll with it for now!
- Twitch (@Twitch) January 8, 2021
Get ready for a new PogChamp every 24 hours, starting today. https://t.co/R16EyASsFx
The reason PogChamp was popular was because it was the site's global hype emote: when anything cool happened on Twitch, you could be sure to see people...