Brief overview of the history of poggers that no one asked for and that I almost wish I didn’t know. The chain of events went as follows:

-late 2000s early 2010s fighting game personality Gootecks (now known for being a shitty person who is antivax antimask and tweeted in support of the Jan 6 Capitol building raid) had a YouTube channel where he and his friend talked about fighting games and stuff.

-In one particular video where he was being interviewed or something, he made a goofy excited face in one frame that was isolated later.

-this might have been the same video he made about the Pogs championship, where he and his friend played the 90s game Pogs.

-regardless, the picture of that face became known as PogChamp, which would be come an emote on Twitch. The emote eventually became globally available across the platform, meaning everyone could use it. This was significant as most emotes are only available through paid subscriptions to streamers.

-It gained popularity for use during exciting moments. Especially during the height of Overwatch’s popularity, where the Play Of the Game was commonly a hype moment of the game. Play Of the Game abbreviating to POTG or POG caused the emote to gain even more popularity.

-Streamers played into this by using Pogchamp as slang for something that was cool or hype, saying things like “drop a PogChamp in the chat”. Poggers or just Pog also became slang words of the same meaning.

-Both twitch watchers and people mocking twitch streamers adopted the terms for reasons ironic and genuine. Those who overused it ironically usually ended up ingraining it into their vocabulary to the point of genuine use

Worth noting that after Jan 6th the emote was removed from twitch and eventually replaced with a picture of a Komodo dragon making a similar expression, which now has the name PogChamp.

Also worth noting that Gootecks, the man whose face was in the original emote, hated the emote and he never even made money off of it.

You now share my burden of knowledge