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Twitch Removes ‘PogChamp’ Emote – Kotaku Australia
The popular PogChamp emote has been removed by Twitch, with the platform citing its recent use in encouraging “further violence”.
Twitch has removed the extremely popular Pogchamp emote from its service after the man featured in it, streamer Ryan Gootecks Gutierrez, tweeted some Extremely Bad Shit about the events currently unfolding in Washington.
Heres the tweet in question, in which Gutierrez directly calls for civil unrest for a #MAGAMartyr following a shooting that took place earlier in the day (he is referring to a woman shot and killed inside the Capitol Building).
A few hours later, Twitch made the decision to remove…
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