![]() Twitter user RealMizkif replied with one such example that same day, receiving over 24,000 likes and 350 retweets in 40 hours (seen below). Within the same thread announcing Twitch's removal of PogChamp, several users began pushing for KomodoHype to replace the emote. On January 6th, 2021, during the storming of the Capitol Building, Gootecks (whose face is the PogChamp emote) posed a question on his Twitter account regarding the woman who was shot and killed by police during the storming of the Capitol Building, resulting in Twitch then announcing on its Twitter that they’d made the decision to ban the emote (shown below). On June 26th, Redditor CloudNEINHitler posted another example of the emote used in a meme to the /r/xqcow sub, receiving 143 upvotes in six months (seen below, right). One such example was posted by Redditor RiksuM on June 11th, 2020, to the /r/xqcow subreddit, receiving 311 upvotes in six months (seen below, left). Īlthough the emote was largely dwarfed by more popular emotes on Twitch, the image was widely discussed around the web after its introduction and even appeared in several memes. The photo was added to Twitch as an emote sometime in 2015 where it became an expression for hype or excitement during intense moments of streams, although it was also used sarcastically in the opposite fashion (seen below). A thread featuring actor Benedict Cumberbatch on /r/photoshopbattles also saw an edited version (shown below, right). One such example of an edited version being created early on comes from Deviant Art user vkdragonfire who posted a variant to look like Smaug the dragon on November 8th, 2013 (shown below, left). The image was spread around online for several years through memes, Photoshop edits and numerous threads on the /r/photoshopbattles subreddit where it was edited into various images. ![]() ![]() According to the image-search site TinEye, the original photo appeared on on April 16th, 2008, though the site has since been taken down. The image used in the emote originates from a stock photo of a Komodo dragon opening its mouth wide that was first posted online sometime in 2008 (seen below). ![]()
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