Twitch will now have a different Pogchamp emote every 24 hours

Earlier this week, Twitch deleted their hugely popular Pogchamp emote, which is used to express excitement in the chat, after emote face Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, encouraged further “civil unrest” after the insurgency on Capitol Hill. Now, just two days later, he’s replaced Gutierrez’s likeness with an elaborate plan that is, honestly, pretty poggers.

Today on Twitter, Twitch has announced how it will handle the Pogchamp emote from now on.

“You know what? In the spirit of figuring out 2021 together, let’s go for now!” The company wrote. “Get ready for a new Pogchamp every 24 hours, starting today.”

Today’s Pogchamp is fighting game expert Kenny “UnRoolie” McWild, who had thrown his hat in the ring to be Pogchamp’s de facto replacement. Tomorrow could be anyone, but I’m guessing it’s probably going to be someone else who has volunteered on Twitter before.

The revolving idea of ​​Pogchamp was originally suggested by longtime game personality Sean “Day9” Plott shortly after Twitch removed the original Pogchamp emote.

It’s not hard to see why Twitch liked the idea: had he picked a single individual to be Pogchamp’s new face, this streamer would almost certainly have faced harassment and other forms of attention. undesirable. That way, the Eye of Sauron of harassing Dickheads must at least look around a lot instead of focusing their fury in one place. Still, that won’t necessarily stop people from taking on the streamer of the day, and it opens up new possibilities, like Twitch giving the spotlight to a streamer who turns out to have a problematic story. It’s new territory, however, so it’s unclear how that will actually play out. This is possibly the most poggy part of all.

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