Twitch's New PogChamp Caught Up in Past Tweets Controversy
Following the January 6 storming of the US Capitol, the former face of the famous PogChamp emote, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, made several inflammatory tweets regarding the related death of Ashli Babbitt. As a result of these tweets from Gootecks,Twitch made the decision to remove the PogChamp emote, citing the potential of the social media posts to incite further violence. While Twitch’s decision to distance itself from Gootecks was widely praised by the community, there was a sense of sadness that removing PogChamp meant that the platform had lost a core part of its identity that was easily recognized across the various subsets present on the site....