It’s an expression of shock and excitement. It comes from a specific image that became a Twitch emote of the same name. If you look up “pog” or “pogchamp”, you should find the image. The face pretty much speaks for itself. It’s one of the staples of Twitch chat culture
The term has also evolved in everyday speech as essentially being equivalent to “sick” or “dope”
That’s true, but I believe in this case it’s a double meaning referencing a twitch streamer playing that game Pog, and the acronym “Play Of [the] Game”.
It’s an expression of shock and excitement. It comes from a specific image that became a Twitch emote of the same name. If you look up “pog” or “pogchamp”, you should find the image. The face pretty much speaks for itself. It’s one of the staples of Twitch chat culture
The term has also evolved in everyday speech as essentially being equivalent to “sick” or “dope”
I always thought pog was the thing in the 90’s where you would have to flip them and whatever flipped you got to keep.
That’s true, but I believe in this case it’s a double meaning referencing a twitch streamer playing that game Pog, and the acronym “Play Of [the] Game”.
It’s like when gg became I surrender or it’s gg, it’s lost.