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> I think you are overestimating how much of the popularity came from the FGC. I'm really not. PogChamp is Gootecks, host of Cross-Counter and FG player. The

> I think you are overestimating how much of the popularity came from the FGC. I'm really not. PogChamp is Gootecks, host of Cross-Counter and FG player. The meme is based on an ad they did for MadCatz Fight Sticks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkBDZ8Davvg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkBDZ8Davvg "BibleThump" started out as meme involving an incident with streamer Spooky and FG player Wolfkrone. http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7921h1cU41qcriw6o1_1280.png http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7921h1cU41qcriw6o1_1280.p... BibleThump resembled Wolfkrone in that image so literally thousands of viewers started spamming it with the text "spooby pls" on Spooky's chat whenever something went wrong, or the stream was going to end. That is why you'll often see people type "<topic> pls biblethump", eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df_C79cFhoM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df_C79cFhoM

crazypyro 11y ago
Right, but I'm saying past the origination of those emotes, I don't think a huge portion of their popularity is directly tied to the FGC. They grew out of the FGC, but they've long taken on meanings of their own across the entire site that have no relation to the FGC and center around what emotion the face represents.
- runevault 11y ago
  They've expanded to use outside the FGC, but I would be the FGC viewers who also watch LOL/DOTA/etc is what spread them to the rest of the streaming world. At least with PogChamp (hell maybe DansGame too even though it isn't TECHNICALLY Floe it might as well be at this point).