The picture was taken during a Texas-based anime convention in 2012, ... The Kappa Twitch emote is the face of Josh DeSeno, one of the members of Justin.tv.

This Twitch staple was created after American streamer Mychal "Trihex" had his picture clicked while attending the A-kon 23 anime convention in 2012. The emote captured Mychal's excitement, and ...

One of the oldest and most popular global emotes on Twitch has been removed from the service after Twitch said "the face of the emote encourag[ed] further violence after what took place in the ...

Now Twitch has given itself a strange task: creating a new global PogChamp emote that carries the same meaning as the old one, but without depicting the face that for years has signified that meaning.

What it means: TriHard is an extremely popular yet controversial emote — and it has a detailed history.Based on a face made by streamer TriHex while at an anime convention in Dallas, the emote ...

Twitch has banned the popular PogChamp emote after the face of it, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, encouraged further violence. “We’ve made the decision to remove the PogChamp emote following ...

Twitch’s decision to ban PogChamp was made after the face depicted in the emote, professional Street Fighter player Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, published tweets Wednesday questioning whether ...

Twitch sparked outrage with a holiday emote promotion featuring a poorly rendered cat generated by artificial intelligence. According to a post in the r/LivestreamFail subreddit, Twitch announced ...

BibleThump was popular enough to earn a place in our 2020 rundown of Twitch emote meanings, a handy guide for anyone baffled by the flood of weird faces floating across their screens. "Roguelike ...

YouTube has created its own YouTube Emotes. These Twitch-like emotes work across all comment and live chat sections, and are available for anyone to use.

Starting today, December 6, 2022, YouTube Gaming viewers can use Twitch-inspired Emotes on the platform. The feature is explicitly targeted at gamers, given that YouTube's first sets of Emotes are ...