Sometimes Twitch makes adjustments to what language is allowed. All of these specific ways of communication are monitored by moderators. There are many emotes to choose from that belong to specific streamers and communities. Twitch is very much in control of what they want to put out on the platform and what they want to represent. This caused outrage among many Trump supporters.įigure 2: Twitch announces that they will no longer have the PogChamp emote available to use on its platform Twitch's use of language During the ‘storming of the Capitol’ four people died, one of them being a woman who got shot by a Capitol Police officer. The goal was to stop Congress from certifying that Joe Biden will be the 46th President of the United States. His supporters listened and marched to Capitol Hill where they broke through the barricades and destroyed the glass on the Capitol’s doors. " You’ll have to show strength and you have to be strong" were the words Trump used to address the way the crowd and himself could take back the government in a future election (Jacobo, 2021). On the morning of the 6th of January, the Republican party held a ‘Save America’ rally where thousands of Trump supporters showed up to listen to the President speak. How is it that Twitch controls so much of what can and cannot be said on the platform? When does this turn into censorship? Is there a way for us to change or even control the power the platforms hold in their hands? The Death of PogChamps But where is the line with censorship in these situations? In this article, I will analyze Twitch’s and other social media platforms’ responsibility in our online culture.
This often leads to certain users and phrases being blocked. When users - both passive and active - damage this presence, the platforms need to make changes to fix this image. In our day and age, it matters more and more what presence companies have online, especially companies like Twitch that focus on the online world of streaming.
Political discourse is talked about a lot on the internet and is a big part of our online culture. So when the streamer tweeted a response to the riots at the Capitol that was not aligned with Twitch’s stance on it, he faced repercussions for it. Since Guttierez is literally the face of the meme, it matters to Twitch how he portrays himself on the internet. These two elements combined make the meme ‘pog’, ‘poggers’ or ‘pogchamp’ complete. The face that he makes was from an older video in 2010 where he responded to the camera almost being knocked over. This meme - that is used when something surprisingly great happens - was born when Street Fighter streamer Ryan Guttierez (Gootecks) played a game called ‘Pogs’ and said ‘Pog Champions’. On January 7th 2021, Twitch tweeted that the streaming platform will no longer support the well-known PogChamp emote.
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