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.
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.