A Hololive catchphrase and reaction-image pair from a 2020 Usada Pekora stream, where "rrat" means an unverified VTuber narrative and "ogey" is the dismissive reply.

Where did Ogey Rrat come from?

From Pekora's April 11, 2020 Metal Gear Solid 3 playthrough, in which she said "Okay, rrrat!" after killing a rat and picking up a Russian ration.

What does Ogey Rrat mean?

"Rrat" is 4chan /jp/ slang for a fan narrative or conspiracy about a VTuber, after the October 2020 "can't spell narrative without rrat" post, and "ogey" is used to brush that narrative off.

How do you use Ogey Rrat?

Reply with "ogey" or the distorted Pekora face to any shaky VTuber rumor, following the joke rule that every ogey has an equal and opposite rrat.

Is Ogey Rrat still popular?

It became a staple of 4chan's /vt/ board once that board launched in 2021 and stayed a recurring Hololive in-joke through at least late 2021, with posts like the Yagoo ogey-orb GIF clearing 8,900 upvotes.

Ogey Rrat

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Published November 9, 2026

Ogey Rrat traces to an April 2020 Hololive stream where VTuber Usada Pekora killed a rat in Metal Gear Solid 3 and exclaimed "Okay, rrrat!" after grabbing a Russian ration. Fans on 4chan's /jp/ board clipped the moment, and by October 2020 "rrat" had drifted from onomatopoeia to shorthand for Hololive fan narratives and conspiracy posts1 2.

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Overview

Ogey Rrat works as a two-part Hololive in-joke. "Rrat" became fan slang for any unverified narrative, rumor or lore theory about a VTuber, and "ogey" is the dismissive reply, usually paired with a warped, wide-eyed crop of Pekora's face used as a reaction image1. The joke runs on a mock-physics law that circulated on /vt/ and later landed on Urban Dictionary, "for every Ogey there must be an equal and opposite Rrat"3.

A typical post pairs a tinfoil theory about a VTuber's real identity or past with an ogey reaction, or does the reverse and labels a VTuber themselves a "rrat," as fans did with Hakos Baelz given her mouse-themed design1. Edits range from the plain cropped face to deep-fried, stretched or multi-eyed ogeys depending on how absurd the rrat is1.

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Origin & Background

Platform

YouTube (clip source) / 4chan /jp/ (viral spread)

Creator

Usada Pekora; Unknown

Date

2020

On April 11, 2020, Hololive VTuber Usada Pekora streamed her first playthrough of Metal Gear Solid 3, and nine minutes into a subtitled highlight reel from Peko Subs she can be heard saying "Okay, rrrrat!" after killing a rat and picking up a "R.RAT" Russian ration item1 2. Konami developed Metal Gear Solid 3; Pekora is the source of the clip, but the "Ogey Rrat" meme format itself came from anonymous reposters, with the earliest WebM shared on 4chan's /jp/ board on April 27, 20201.

YouTuber Ryuko T-72 uploaded the stream excerpt on July 23, 2020, and on August 26, 2020, channel 35Prime reposted it under the title "Ogey Rrat," one of the first appearances of that exact spelling4. The "narrative" meaning showed up later: on October 11, 2020, an anonymous /jp/ user posted that you "can't spell narrative without rrat," welding the two ideas together1.

How It Spread

The clip circulated on /jp/ through spring and summer 2020 before jumping off 4chan. On September 4, 2020, a Reddit user posted an r/Hololive meme showing Pekora taking a fast-food order and cooking a rat, one of the earliest appearances outside the chan boards1. On November 2, 2020, YouTuber viedo gaems uploaded a Potion Seller edit starring two warped ogeys arguing over narratives5, and on December 12, 2020, u/BiggestGuyUUUU posted a reaction-image version to r/okbuddyhololive1.

Once /vt/ split off from /jp/ in early 2021, the catchphrase became a board-defining joke. Urban Dictionary entries for "Ogey" and "rrat" went up on March 24 and April 27, 2021, respectively, codifying the "equal and opposite" rule3. A short-lived competitive clicker site, ogeyrr.at, tracked total "ogey" and "rrat" button presses and was quickly broken by autoclickers, with each counter passing 20 million in March 2021 and 40 million by April before the site went offline1.

Derivative posts kept the format alive through 2021. The Facebook page Usada Pekoraposting ran a "stages of Pekora becoming a rat" meme on July 16, 2021, that drew over 2,700 reactions1. On August 18, 2021, u/John_The_Autist posted a Piper Perri edit casting Hakos Baelz as the rrat among Hololive's cat-eared members, which reached over 3,000 upvotes, and on October 3, u/SomeCoolkidguy's GIF of CEO Yagoo holding a floating ogey orb crossed 8,900 points1.

Timeline

2020-04-11

Usada Pekora streams her first Metal Gear Solid 3 playthrough, the source of the "Okay, rrrat!" line.

2020-04-27

Earliest known WebM of the clip is posted on 4chan's /jp/ board.

2020-08-26

35Prime reposts the YouTube clip as "Ogey Rrat," one of the first uses of that spelling.

2020-09-04

R/Hololive meme pictures Pekora cooking a rat at a fast-food counter, an early spread outside 4chan.

2020-10-11

An anonymous /jp/ poster writes "can't spell narrative without rrat," fixing the fan-theory meaning.

2020-11-02

YouTuber viedo gaems posts a Potion Seller edit with two warped ogeys.

2021-03-24

An Urban Dictionary entry for "Ogey" codifies the "equal and opposite rrat" law.

2021-10-03

A Yagoo-with-ogey-orb GIF on r/Hololive passes 8,900 upvotes.

How to Use This Meme

Fans typically reply "ogey" (often with the distorted Pekora image) to any post floating a "rrat," meaning a shaky rumor, lore theory or conspiracy about a VTuber's identity or behavior. Common convention is to escalate the ogey edit's distortion in proportion to how absurd the rrat is, and to call a VTuber herself a "rrat" when her design or persona fits (as fans did with Hakos Baelz)1.