Poggers Pepe the Frog emote with excited open-mouthed expression

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.

How It Spread

Adoption tracked closely with Twitch's League of Legends and FPS communities through late 2017. A Twitter question about the emote's spread was posted by user Shafulyn on November 2nd, 2017, and a discussion thread appeared on r/leagueoflegends on December 25th, 20172. On January 28th, 2018, Urban Dictionary user Seltz posted a definition describing POGGERS as a PogChamp replacement for expressing hype after an impressive play4.

On July 15th, 2018, Twitter user cawayee posted a since-deleted viral tweet about a man replying to a nude with "poggers," which pushed the word out of Twitch chat and into general internet vocabulary2. From there the term drifted into ironic and absurd use, and the subreddit r/okbuddyretard eventually banned it on May 11th, 2020 because of how often it was showing up in low-effort posts2.

Spin-off emotes filled out the family. OMEGAPOGGERS, a zoomed-in high-intensity version, was uploaded to FrankerFaceZ as a separate third-party emote3, and Woggers and COGGERS followed the same joke of swapping the first letter for a new reaction flavor.

Timeline

2017-02-23

POGGERS is submitted to Better Twitch TV as a BTTV emote.

2017-11-02

Twitter user Shafulyn posts a question about the emote's spread.

2017-12-25

A thread about POGGERS is posted to r/leagueoflegends.

2018-01-28

Urban Dictionary user Seltz uploads a POGGERS definition.

2018-07-15

Twitter user cawayee posts a viral (later deleted) tweet about a man replying to a nude with "poggers," pushing the term outside Twitch.

2020-05-11

The subreddit r/okbuddyretard bans use of Poggers due to overuse.

2020-10

KYM reports the emote is enabled in over 160,000 Twitch channels.

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