Gootecks Pogchamp

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PogChamp is a classic Twitch global emote showing pro Street Fighter player Ryan 'Gootecks' Gutierrez making a shocked wide-eyed face pulled from a 2010 Cross Counter TV outtake. Added to Twitch in 2012, it became the platform's default hype reaction until it was removed on January 6, 2021 after Gutierrez tweeted about the Capitol storming.

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Overview

PogChamp is one of Twitch's oldest global emotes and shows pro Street Fighter player Ryan 'Gootecks' Gutierrez frozen mid-reaction with his eyes and mouth open wide1. In chat it works as hype spam, dropped when something clutch happens on stream, though viewers also lean on it sarcastically during dull or embarrassing moments to mock a streamer.

By January 2020, the emote saw around half a million uses per day on Twitch and spiked above a million on peak broadcast days4. As one of the platform's default global emotes, PogChamp shipped in every channel out of the box, and its constant chat spam pushed the shocked Gootecks face into gaming shorthand well beyond Twitch itself.

How It Spread

Once PogChamp was baked into every Twitch chat, it turned into the site's default shorthand for excitement and got spammed across almost every stream category. On January 3, 2016, u/ThatSchmoDude42 posted the first r/Twitch explainer walking newcomers through what the emote meant and linking the original clip2. Derivative emotes followed quickly: BetterTTV added POGGERS, a Pepe the Frog version, on February 23, 2017, and FrankerFaceZ user Amiccuz submitted PogU, a different still of Gootecks from the same 2010 video, on June 3, 20183.

The face picked up catchphrase spinoffs too, including 'My Little PogChamp,' which took off in a Facebook post from the page Smol on September 24, 2020 using Kill la Kill fan art. Twitch pulled the original emote on January 6, 2021 after Gutierrez posted on Twitter about the woman shot dead by police during the Capitol storming, with the platform saying his statements encouraged further violence4.

How to Use This Meme

Type 'PogChamp' in a Twitch or Twitch-adjacent chat during a hype moment to trigger the emote. The common convention is to wall-spam it during clutch plays, or drop it sarcastically when a streamer flops. Since the 2021 removal of the original, viewers often reach for POGGERS or PogU to fill the same role3.

Frequently Asked Questions

Gootecks Pogchamp

2010reaction imageclassic

PogChamp is a classic Twitch global emote showing pro Street Fighter player Ryan 'Gootecks' Gutierrez making a shocked wide-eyed face pulled from a 2010 Cross Counter TV outtake. Added to Twitch in 2012, it became the platform's default hype reaction until it was removed on January 6, 2021 after Gutierrez tweeted about the Capitol storming.

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Overview

PogChamp is one of Twitch's oldest global emotes and shows pro Street Fighter player Ryan 'Gootecks' Gutierrez frozen mid-reaction with his eyes and mouth open wide1. In chat it works as hype spam, dropped when something clutch happens on stream, though viewers also lean on it sarcastically during dull or embarrassing moments to mock a streamer.

By January 2020, the emote saw around half a million uses per day on Twitch and spiked above a million on peak broadcast days4. As one of the platform's default global emotes, PogChamp shipped in every channel out of the box, and its constant chat spam pushed the shocked Gootecks face into gaming shorthand well beyond Twitch itself.

How It Spread

Once PogChamp was baked into every Twitch chat, it turned into the site's default shorthand for excitement and got spammed across almost every stream category. On January 3, 2016, u/ThatSchmoDude42 posted the first r/Twitch explainer walking newcomers through what the emote meant and linking the original clip2. Derivative emotes followed quickly: BetterTTV added POGGERS, a Pepe the Frog version, on February 23, 2017, and FrankerFaceZ user Amiccuz submitted PogU, a different still of Gootecks from the same 2010 video, on June 3, 20183.

The face picked up catchphrase spinoffs too, including 'My Little PogChamp,' which took off in a Facebook post from the page Smol on September 24, 2020 using Kill la Kill fan art. Twitch pulled the original emote on January 6, 2021 after Gutierrez posted on Twitter about the woman shot dead by police during the Capitol storming, with the platform saying his statements encouraged further violence4.

How to Use This Meme

Type 'PogChamp' in a Twitch or Twitch-adjacent chat during a hype moment to trigger the emote. The common convention is to wall-spam it during clutch plays, or drop it sarcastically when a streamer flops. Since the 2021 removal of the original, viewers often reach for POGGERS or PogU to fill the same role3.

Frequently Asked Questions