It’s an expression of shock and excitement. It comes from a specific image that became a Twitch emote of the same name. If you look up “pog” or “pogchamp”, you should find the image. The face pretty much speaks for itself. It’s one of the staples of Twitch chat culture
The term has also evolved in everyday speech as essentially being equivalent to “sick” or “dope”
That’s true, but I believe in this case it’s a double meaning referencing a twitch streamer playing that game Pog, and the acronym “Play Of [the] Game”.
Twitch is a popular live stream platform, on it users can post emotes which have names. One of the oldest and most popular emotes is pogchamp, it used to be the face of a streamer who made the expression after winning a game of pog but he got banned for some controversial statements (typical right wing covid denial, jan6th apologia) and the emote was replaced with a lizard making a similar face. This has slowly bled into the mainstream just as the word pog or poggers.
The facial expression sums up it’s meaning, but it’s basically one of shocked happiness, you would use it if a streamer does something rare/lucky/skillful Luke sky-walker turning off his targeting computer but still destroying the deathstar is poggers. Getting an A on a multiple choice test despite guessing every answer is poggers.
Yes I’m pretty sure. Here is the video where the face for the :pogchamp: emote used on twitch comes from (if your confused it’s an outtake vid from Here). That emote was the one of the most popular emotes on twitch for a very long time, people would go onto other platforms and just type :pogchamp: and other twitch users would know what they meant. Eventually it was shortened to just pogchamp and then just pog. Here’s the oldest example of pogchamp I can find from 2013 when it first started migrating to reddit (video came out in 2011 and became a platform wide emote on twitch in 2012).
Also FWIW I would abbreviate Play of the Game to PotG.
Hmm, so I learned of pog in 2016 when my friends were into Overwatch, and pog was definitely used as an acronym from Play Of the Game (POTG is very clunky to say).
However, the PogChamp usage is from 2011, so the play of the game usage is either coincidental or an intentional decision on the part of Blizzard/Activision.
Most importantly, the POG in PogChamp does actually refer to the beverage disks. Weirdly enough, they were just a prop in an awkwardly acted ad for a gaming peripheral by a professional Street Fighter player/streamer. The actual usage of PogChamp probably started on 4Chan before appearing on Twitch, after which it spread.
Pog/poggers. I’m old but usually up on things as a long-time knight-of-new but this term slipped by me years ago and I never caught its meaning.
It’s an expression of shock and excitement. It comes from a specific image that became a Twitch emote of the same name. If you look up “pog” or “pogchamp”, you should find the image. The face pretty much speaks for itself. It’s one of the staples of Twitch chat culture
The term has also evolved in everyday speech as essentially being equivalent to “sick” or “dope”
It’s like when gg became I surrender or it’s gg, it’s lost.
I always thought pog was the thing in the 90’s where you would have to flip them and whatever flipped you got to keep.
That’s true, but I believe in this case it’s a double meaning referencing a twitch streamer playing that game Pog, and the acronym “Play Of [the] Game”.
Twitch is a popular live stream platform, on it users can post emotes which have names. One of the oldest and most popular emotes is pogchamp, it used to be the face of a streamer who made the expression after winning a game of pog but he got banned for some controversial statements (typical right wing covid denial, jan6th apologia) and the emote was replaced with a lizard making a similar face. This has slowly bled into the mainstream just as the word pog or poggers.
The facial expression sums up it’s meaning, but it’s basically one of shocked happiness, you would use it if a streamer does something rare/lucky/skillful Luke sky-walker turning off his targeting computer but still destroying the deathstar is poggers. Getting an A on a multiple choice test despite guessing every answer is poggers.
Is it really pogs that started this and not “Play Of the Game”?
Yes I’m pretty sure. Here is the video where the face for the :pogchamp: emote used on twitch comes from (if your confused it’s an outtake vid from Here). That emote was the one of the most popular emotes on twitch for a very long time, people would go onto other platforms and just type :pogchamp: and other twitch users would know what they meant. Eventually it was shortened to just pogchamp and then just pog. Here’s the oldest example of pogchamp I can find from 2013 when it first started migrating to reddit (video came out in 2011 and became a platform wide emote on twitch in 2012).
Also FWIW I would abbreviate Play of the Game to PotG.
Hmm, so I learned of pog in 2016 when my friends were into Overwatch, and pog was definitely used as an acronym from Play Of the Game (POTG is very clunky to say).
However, the PogChamp usage is from 2011, so the play of the game usage is either coincidental or an intentional decision on the part of Blizzard/Activision.
Most importantly, the POG in PogChamp does actually refer to the beverage disks. Weirdly enough, they were just a prop in an awkwardly acted ad for a gaming peripheral by a professional Street Fighter player/streamer. The actual usage of PogChamp probably started on 4Chan before appearing on Twitch, after which it spread.
POG = Play of the Game
It was used by people in the chat when watching video game streamers pull off an impressive play.
It just kind of morphed out of that to mean something awesome happened.