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Twitch removes PogChamp emote after star encourages ‘further violence’ at Capitol Hill

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Jan 6, 2021 7:12 PM
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After showing support for the capitol hill mob during today's demonstration, Gootecks famed "Pogchamp" emote has been banned by twitch for inciting violence among other things.

https://www.polygon.com/2021/1/6/22218059/pogchamp-twitch-removed-emote-ryan-gootecks-gutierrez-trump-capitol-hill



Gootecks been goin off the deep end lately but idk about this one.
youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
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Jan 6, 2021 7:14 PM
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reactionary move from Twitch im sure in later times it will be back again
Jan 6, 2021 7:22 PM
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Politicians have absolutely no grasp or understanding of meme culture. This seems extremely dumb tbh.
Jan 6, 2021 7:22 PM
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because it totally makes sense that an emote incites violence, 10/10 logic
Jan 6, 2021 7:25 PM
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Oh boy, this is just like the Pepe and 👌/ok hand sign controversies all over again..............
Jan 6, 2021 7:49 PM
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Jan 6, 2021 7:57 PM
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Why are people surprised? I never expected a company from San Francisco to take any intelligent or rational decisions.
Jan 6, 2021 8:02 PM
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GOOD!

Anyone calling for violence and fascism needs to be taken down immediately.

Fascism only dies with FORCE....there will be ZERO compromise with these fucking people.

Start MASSIVE BANS if necessary.

Jan 6, 2021 9:38 PM
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Pogchamp!! Nooooooo!!

presses F to pay respect

I'll blame the politicians for this treason and tyranny.

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Jan 6, 2021 9:42 PM

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--ALEX-- said:
GOOD!

Anyone calling for violence and fascism needs to be taken down immediately.

Fascism only dies with FORCE....there will be ZERO compromise with these fucking people.

Start MASSIVE BANS if necessary.



LMFAO.

Remove a emote because it PROMOTES FASCISM!

You should probably take a break from mal.
Jan 6, 2021 9:49 PM

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literally who and why should i care?
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Jan 6, 2021 9:50 PM

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Cool, i've already lost any sort of respect towards Gootecks a while ago, dude's an embarassement.
Jan 7, 2021 7:41 AM

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Kayle_x_Morgana said:
--ALEX-- said:
GOOD!

Anyone calling for violence and fascism needs to be taken down immediately.

Fascism only dies with FORCE....there will be ZERO compromise with these fucking people.

Start MASSIVE BANS if necessary.



LMFAO.

Remove a emote because it PROMOTES FASCISM!

You should probably take a break from mal.

The guy whose face they used for the emote was promoting further violence. Specifically he was calling for revenge for the person who was shot by the Capital police. This isn't really different than when they removed BlessRNG because the guy openly admitted to abusing his girlfriend. If the guy who the emote is based on turns out to be a douche get rid of it.
Jan 7, 2021 7:47 AM

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That's not very poggers twitch

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Jan 7, 2021 7:52 AM

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GamerDLM said:
Kayle_x_Morgana said:


LMFAO.

Remove a emote because it PROMOTES FASCISM!

You should probably take a break from mal.

The guy whose face they used for the emote was promoting further violence. Specifically he was calling for revenge for the person who was shot by the Capital police. This isn't really different than when they removed BlessRNG because the guy openly admitted to abusing his girlfriend. If the guy who the emote is based on turns out to be a douche get rid of it.
Thanks for the context. At first I was really confused at how a stupid meme was correlated to radical conservative groups but this makes sense now.
Jan 7, 2021 8:02 AM

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GamerDLM said:
Kayle_x_Morgana said:


LMFAO.

Remove a emote because it PROMOTES FASCISM!

You should probably take a break from mal.

The guy whose face they used for the emote was promoting further violence. Specifically he was calling for revenge for the person who was shot by the Capital police. This isn't really different than when they removed BlessRNG because the guy openly admitted to abusing his girlfriend. If the guy who the emote is based on turns out to be a douche get rid of it.


So now when everyone spams poggers emote it means "I support Trump, more violence!"
Yeah asinine just like I said
Jan 7, 2021 8:04 AM

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Kayle_x_Morgana said:
GamerDLM said:

The guy whose face they used for the emote was promoting further violence. Specifically he was calling for revenge for the person who was shot by the Capital police. This isn't really different than when they removed BlessRNG because the guy openly admitted to abusing his girlfriend. If the guy who the emote is based on turns out to be a douche get rid of it.


So now when everyone spams poggers emote it means "I support Trump, more violence!"
Yeah asinine just like I said

No they're redesigning the pogchamp emote except they're not using an asshole as the base. They literally posted that they recognize the spirit of the emote as a hype emote but they don't want that guys face associated with their service.
Jan 7, 2021 8:12 AM

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A fucking asshole don't deserve to be celebrate as an emote, fuck him and and everyone like him.
heh.
Jan 7, 2021 8:57 AM

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Nobody really has the person himself in mind when posting PogChamp emotes, much less celebrating him, but I'm ok with its removal if the site thought it's too interlinked with the person's individuality. I personally disagree, but I can respect it.
Jan 7, 2021 8:58 AM
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rohan121 said:
Politicians have absolutely no grasp or understanding of meme culture. This seems extremely dumb tbh.


Twitch = politicians?

And you're saying *they* have a poor grasp of how things work?

This is a corporation showing a very good understanding of how legal liability works. They pulled this, because if they don't show that they voluntarily remove violent content then their industry will end up being regulated under entirely non-voluntarily legislation.
Jan 7, 2021 9:00 AM

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I absolutely despise the pogchamp emotes but its a meme come on really?
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Jan 7, 2021 9:03 AM
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AphoticPassion said:
I absolutely despise the pogchamp emotes but its a meme come on really?


It's a corporation covering their ass.

They don't want to be seen as amplifying a coup attempt right before the change of political power, otherwise that power will come after them and they'll end up with sweeping legislation that curtails their corporate freedom. There's definitely going to be a conversation about the crazy stuff going on and how to avoid future crazy stuff. Social media companies don't want to end up on the "amplifying crazy" side of the debate when that happens.

They don't care about the meme.

It's also the same with how Twitter started disputing Trump's tweets. A big part of that was that Trump's defeat was very likely given the polls, so the major corporations want to be in the good books for the incoming administration - they probably wouldn't have done that if Trump was predicted to go to landslide victory, for example if his handling of the pandemic was better than the dumpster fire it turned out to be.

Blocking or labeling tweets as "disputed" in itself didn't do anything, wasn't intended to do anything. And they only started doing it when it was too little too late to affect Trump's actual chances. It just sets the narrative that such-and-such corporation are team players after the changeover.
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Jan 7, 2021 9:59 AM

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Come on, it's fun seeing chat spam emotes



Images of a dude ain't hurting nobody.
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Jan 7, 2021 10:20 AM

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Opticflash said:
Come on, it's fun seeing chat spam emotes



Images of a dude ain't hurting nobody.

5 of those are on bttv which is unaffiliated with Twitch, they're only removing the 4th one which is a global emote on Twitch and they're redesigning it to not use that guys face.
Jan 7, 2021 11:11 AM

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I'd like all twitch emotes removed everywhere please, emojis on top of that. do it before the newer generations further devolve into using pictograms in place of words. every time I hear twitch speak irl, I get very disappointed.
Jan 7, 2021 11:44 AM

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Now I'm starting to fully believe Dr Disrespects saying that Twitch never told him the real reason why he was banned. They just removed one of the most popular emotes without any approval of community
Jan 7, 2021 12:25 PM

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Slawadia said:
I'd like all twitch emotes removed everywhere please, emojis on top of that. do it before the newer generations further devolve into using pictograms in place of words. every time I hear twitch speak irl, I get very disappointed.


Spamming emotes only is mainly a Twitch thing calm down
Jan 7, 2021 1:45 PM

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Opticflash said:
Slawadia said:
I'd like all twitch emotes removed everywhere please, emojis on top of that. do it before the newer generations further devolve into using pictograms in place of words. every time I hear twitch speak irl, I get very disappointed.


Spamming emotes only is mainly a Twitch thing calm down


Boomer take my guy. It isn't just a twitch thing anymore. Very annoying and cringe when I see Fortnite middle schoolers call their new vape poggers and shit. So cringe.
youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
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Jan 7, 2021 2:07 PM

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ohml said:
Opticflash said:


Spamming emotes only is mainly a Twitch thing calm down


Boomer take my guy. It isn't just a twitch thing anymore. Very annoying and cringe when I see Fortnite middle schoolers call their new vape poggers and shit. So cringe.

Why the fuck are you hanging out with cringe Fortnite middle-schoolers? Kinda sus.
Jan 7, 2021 2:34 PM

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PsychoticDave said:
ohml said:


Boomer take my guy. It isn't just a twitch thing anymore. Very annoying and cringe when I see Fortnite middle schoolers call their new vape poggers and shit. So cringe.

Why the fuck are you hanging out with cringe Fortnite middle-schoolers? Kinda sus.


lol. I don't hang out with them. I do see them though when I go outside and shit. Do you?
youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
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