POGGERS is a Better Twitch TV emote showing Pepe the Frog with a surprised, wide-mouth expression, used in Twitch chat to react to hype moments in a stream[2].

Where did POGGERS come from?

It was submitted to Better Twitch TV on February 23rd, 2017, as a third-party BTTV emote and grew out of Twitch's PogChamp culture[2].

What does POGGERS mean?

It means excitement or hype, essentially a stronger, meme-flavored version of "pog" or PogChamp, often typed after a big play or surprise[4].

How do you use POGGERS?

In Twitch chat with BTTV installed, users spam the emote after a clutch play, and in text people write "poggers" as an interjection meaning "that's awesome"[3].

Is POGGERS still popular?

It is still a common Twitch chat emote and was enabled in over 160,000 channels by October 2020, though its ironic use outside Twitch got so heavy that r/okbuddyretard banned the word in May 2020[2].

POGGERS

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Published September 22, 2026

POGGERS is a Twitch emote showing Pepe the Frog with a wide-mouthed surprised expression, submitted to Better Twitch TV in February 2017 as a Pepe-flavored alternative to PogChamp. It grew into one of the platform's most-used reaction emotes and eventually leaked out of Twitch chat into general internet slang.

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Overview

POGGERS is a BTTV emote showing Pepe the Frog with an exaggerated open-mouth stare, mimicking the excited face of the older PogChamp emote1. Viewers spam it in Twitch chat after big plays, clutch moments, or any on-stream surprise, and the same energy carried over into text form where typing "poggers" or "pog" means roughly "that's hype"2.

The emote sits in the same family as MonkaS and other Pepe-based Twitch reactions, and it spawned a small dictionary of variants including Woggers, OMEGAPOGGERS3, and COGGERS. Outside chat, people use it as a written interjection, sometimes ironically, and it eventually detached from streaming entirely, showing up in unrelated tweets, replies, and shitposts4.

Origin & Background

Platform

Better Twitch TV (BTTV emote) / Twitch chat (viral spread)

Date

2017

The emote, stylized in all caps as POGGERS, was uploaded to Better Twitch TV on February 23rd, 20172. BTTV is a browser extension that adds third-party emotes on top of Twitch's native set, so POGGERS was not an official Twitch emote at launch, viewers needed the extension to see it. The uploader is not publicly identified and the artwork is a cropped, redrawn Pepe face, so the meme's creator is best listed as unknown2.

By October 2020, KYM noted the emote was enabled in over 160,000 Twitch channels2, making it one of the most widely installed BTTV Pepe variants of that era.

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