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The Death of Pog by Shiven Sharma, Ewell Castle School It is the end of an era in Twitch Gaming History. On the 6th of January 2021, the PogChamp Twitch emote was removed from the site. This emoticon was highly regarded among the Twitch fan base and one could argue that it was even embedded into the very lore of the Twitch.TV website. In order to gain a further understanding into why Pog was such an impactful phrase, look at my other published article on this site titled “Pog: A Study in Colloquialisms”. For those of you who understand the connotations behind the phrase, read on to discover why it was removed.
On January 6, 2021, a large number of sitting President Donald Trump’s supporters left a speaking event in which Trump once again accused President-Elect Joe Biden of cheating him out of the election win. They mobbed and stormed the US Capitol Building where Electoral College votes were set to be counted to confirm Biden’s victory, overpowering the police that actually intended to keep order and endangering the staff and legislators therein. During these events, a female rioter was shot and killed. Following calls for further violence in the wake of her death, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez’s popular “PogChamp” emote on Twitch has been permanently removed.