The face responsible for PogChamp, a popular emote, spurred civil unrest using social media. Twitch announced that PogChamp, a very prominent face of the gaming culture, is removed from the live streaming service called the Twitch. This decision appeared after Ryan Gutierrez, a real-world fighting game figure used social media for encouraging further violence following the events at Capitol today.
Many Top Personalities Also Expected To Ban PogChamp
After Capitol Hill was taken over by the supporters of Trump and calls for impeachment from huge political figures, Gootecks told his gaming followers to not stop the violence that raged throughout January 6th. The personality also took the woman’s name who died amidst the violent takeover and further encouraged his gaming followers to watch a video regarding her passing. Many top personalities of gaming declared that they will be either banning this PogChamp emote across their channels or asking Twitch for taking action against the emote.
On Wednesday night, Twitch, a company in San Francisco banned the emote. Users won’t be able to use this emote on their service. Twitch was also reached by Polygon for comments. According to StreamElements, PogChamp became the 5th most-used emote on that live streaming site. While the company acknowledged its legacy, it stated that the emote is a massive part of their Twitch culture, however, the platform won’t be able to enable the emote with a very good conscience.
Twitch also mentioned that they would be working on designing an emote as famous and hyped as PogChamp alongside the community. Gutierrez became famous previously while spreading absurd conspiracy theories. The community guidelines of Twitch prohibit violence in their platform as well as encouraging violence outside their live streaming service. In 2020, Twitch managed to update the guidelines of harassment for banning the flag of the Confederates along with many other tweaks regarding politics on its service.
