After ten days of announcing the streamer who would be featured as the daily PogChamp emote, Twitch has decided it will no longer be identifying the chosen content creator on its Twitter page, making the emotes even more confusing. This not only brings less attention to the featured Twitch streamer but also fails to provide a way to identify them, making it all but pointless to be the daily PogChamp emote.
Many long-time Twitch users will associate "PogChamp" with the face of Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez whose likeness was used for the OG PogChamp emote before its removal. Twitch made the decision to remove Gutierrez's version of the emote after he encouraged more violence to occur following the attempted insurrection of the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th. Twitch expressed that it still wanted to continue the usage and tradition of PogChamp and would take community suggestions for the future of the emote. One community member suggested the PogChamp emote feature a different creator every time it is used, and Twitch adopted a slightly modified version of this idea. Starting on January 8th, the PogChamp emote began changing every 24-hours.
In addition to the daily change, Twitch began announcing the new featured streamers on Twitter bringing attention to their stream and communities. However, earlier today, Twitch tweeted that it would no longer be announcing the daily PogChamp on Twitter, but that users would have to check Twitch chat from now on to see the new daily emote. When Twitch announced the featured creator, it was a great way for more users to discover their community. Now, there is virtually no way to identify the featured streamer as the emote itself does not display their name. The only way someone could identify the streamer is if they are already a member of that person's community.
Seeing how some of the daily PogChamps were treated, this may be an intentional move on Twitch's part. Many viewers on the platform became disgruntled with Twitch for removing the OG PogChamp emote and took out their aggression on the featured creators. Some of the daily PogChamp streamers received racist and homophobic messages across their social media platforms as well as hacking and doxing attempts. While the discontinuance of the daily PogChamp tweets makes it near impossible for viewers to identify the featured streamer, the heinous actions of many viewers may be the reason behind it.
It is understandable that Twitch wants to protect its streamers from hateful conduct, but now it feels pointless to be featured as the daily PogChamp. With no way to properly identify the featured creator, it would make more sense for Twitch to implement the community's original idea of having a different face appear every time the PogChamp emote it used. This would eradicate any need to identify creators individually, and would create a feeling of an actual crowd reacting to a play rather than the same person making a silly face 1,000 times.
Source: Twitch
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