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COGGERS is an animated Twitch emote and a variant of the ‘POGGERS’ emote. COGGERS is an emote in Twitch chat and a blend of two words (portmanteau), POGGERS and COG. Poggers is a Pepe-themed Twitch emote of Pepe with a surprised facial expression used to express excitement or pleasant surprise, which was inspired by the PogChamp emote. COGGERS and POGGERS can be used interchangeably and can often be seen spammed during hype moments like outplays by streamers or significant moments during esports tournaments or exciting game announcements, etc.
COGGERS Emote in Twitch chat origins
According to Streamerfacts.com, COGGERS’ origins can be traced back to the origins of Pepe the Frog in 2005 when Matt Furie uploaded the Boys Club comic to MySpace and PogChamp, one of the oldest emotes on Twitch and the face of streamer Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez. PogChamp came out on Twitch in 2015 and became one of the most popular emotes on the site before its subsequent ban. Variations of the emote such as POG and POGGERS came up after the rise in popularity of the Twitch emote. In 2017, an animated version of COGGERS was uploaded by users to BetterTTV. BTTV, also known as BetterTTV, is a third-party browser extension that allows viewers to use emotes and animated spots in Twitch chat. COGGERS has risen in popularity over the last three years and has been enabled for use on over 22,000 Twitch channels. While it is often spammed together with POGGERS, it isn’t nearly as popular. Streamer Facts reports that while POGGERS is the 50th most used BTTV emote on Twitch, COGGERS is still to make it to the top 100 most used Twitch emotes.
PogChamp’s ban
In January 2021, PogChamp, one of the emotes that inspired COGGERS was banned by Twitch due to Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez’s controversial tweets regarding the violence that occurred during the US Capitol attacks.
In a subsequent tweet, Twitch said, “We want the sentiment and use of Pog to live on – its meaning is much bigger than the person depicted or image itself– and it has a big place in Twitch culture. However, we can't in good conscience continue to enable use of the image.”
