Would one of you young hatchlings who is up on the slang of today be so kind as to update your weird old Aunty Peggy as to what “poggers” means, possibly with some comments on which particular subculture/cartoon/etc this word comes from?

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@anthracite it comes from this twitch emote, called "PogChamp", which is used to comment a particularly cool or impressive moment

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nazi symbolism 

@noiob @anthracite hey, just wanted to add the "poggers" is actually a pepe derivative of "PopChamp" rather than being slang for the original emote

i wrote about this a bit ago here: mastodon.sleeping.town/@xenon/

re: nazi symbolism 

@xenon @anthracite pretty sure most people don't use it for that (and many people use pepe without being nazis)

re: nazi symbolism 

@xenon @anthracite but I'm not super in with twitch culture anyways

re: nazi symbolism 

@noiob @anthracite if you lookup "poggers" it's entirely pepe, and all definitions of it involve the pepe derivative

and i'm sure there are non nazis that use pepe unknowingly, but that doesn't make it ok

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