Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The people have spoken. After a month that saw a number of different content creators on Twitch ...

Following the January 6 storming of the US Capitol, the former face of the famous PogChamp emote, Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez, made several inflammatory tweets regarding the related death of Ashli ...

The PogChamp emote has been in a weird place since Twitch made the call to remove the original image associated with the emote. After making comments encouraging violence in Washington D.C. during the ...

Twitch’s chat has played host to 35 different variations of the staple “PogChamp” emote over the past 35 days, and now, it’s going to be up to the community to vote on the future of the meme. The ...

Omega ‘Critical Bard’ Jones was about to enter the Twitch history books. “In the beginning, it was great,” Jones recalls of becoming the face of PogChamp, the streaming platform’s ubiquitous ...

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. On Friday, the Twitch community voted to crown a new face for PogChamp — and ...

It’s not every day you hear about an enormous platform like Twitch swatting the face of one of its most popular emotes clean off and rendering the president’s account indefinitely inert, as it did in ...

Twitch viewers have elected a new PogChamp. On Friday, KomodoHype, a meme-worthy Komodo dragon, became the new face of the PogChamp emote after a monthlong tryout period. The streaming company ...

Last week, Twitch deleted the face of its extremely popular PogChamp emote, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, after he called for further violence at the Capitol just after a mob sacked the building. In the ...

Despite various gaming companies and platforms trying to end racism, the industry is still filled with familiar stories of people suffering from hate, such as the case of Twitch streamer Omega ...