# Raise Your Dongers Raise Your Dongers is a Twitch chat catchphrase and emoticon coined in 2013 by League of Legends streamer Michael Santana, better known as Imaqtpie. Born from his nickname for the champion Heimerdinger, "donger," the phrase became one of the defining Twitch emoticon copypastas of the early streaming era. ## Origin Michael Santana, better known as Imaqtpie, streamed League of Legends and often picked the champion Heimerdinger, whom he nicknamed "donger," setting "dongsquad" as a password for his Twitch subscribers[4]. Fans began spamming the term in his chat next to the code "420"[1]. On April 8, 2013, Santana tweeted using the hashtags "#dongsquad" and "#FrankerZ," pushing the joke past his channel. The rally cry itself landed on June 17, 2013, when he posted "ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ raise your dongers," pairing the catchphrase with the arms-up emoticon that would define it[4]. - **Platform:** Twitch (chat spam) / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Michael Santana (Imaqtpie) - **Date:** 2013 ## Overview The full spam form is "ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ raise your dongers ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ," an ASCII figure with both arms raised, flanking Santana's catchphrase[1]. Twitch users blast it in chat during hype moments, especially on League of Legends streams, treating it like a group cheer where everyone throws their hands up. The meaning of "dongers" is unclear even to fans, and that ambiguity is part of the joke[2]. Related tags like "#dongsquad" and the "dong squad 420" spam came from the same Imaqtpie chat, mashing his subscriber password with the older "420 blaze it" bit[1]. Together they formed a chunk of the shared Twitch chat vocabulary that traveled to other streamers' channels. ## How to Use Users typically type or paste "ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ raise your dongers ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ" into a Twitch chat, Discord, or forum during a hype moment, often stacking multiple copies to flood the channel. The two arm-raising emoticons flanking the phrase are the visual signature, since the joke is the group hand-raise motion. Common variants swap "raise your" for "raise ur" or trade "dongers" for a related in-joke like "dongsquad." ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Raise Your Dongers? Raise Your Dongers is a 2013 Twitch chat catchphrase and ASCII emoticon "ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ raise your dongers ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ" tied to League of Legends streamer Michael Santana, aka Imaqtpie[1]. ### Where did Raise Your Dongers come from? It grew out of Imaqtpie's Twitch chat, where fans spammed "dongsquad" as his subscriber password before the emoticon version spread beyond the channel[1]. ### What does Raise Your Dongers mean? The precise meaning is unclear, and the vagueness is part of the joke; fans treat it as a hype call mimicking a group hand-raise[2]. ### How do you use Raise Your Dongers? Users typically paste "ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ raise your dongers ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ" into a Twitch chat or Discord during a hype moment, often stacking copies to spam the channel[1]. ### Is Raise Your Dongers still popular? The phrase peaked in mid-2013 alongside Imaqtpie's League streams, with derivatives like DumiPL's "The Raise of the Donger" capping its viral run[3]. ## References 1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150919191047/http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3386486]() 2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150919191052/http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3571797]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAR4e8aEY2w]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/raise-your-dongers]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/raise-your-dongers Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library