The popular pogchamp emote was banned after the person depicted in it published tweets’encouraging further violence’ following a riot at the US Capitol.

The move follows statements from the face of the emote encouraging further violence after what took place in the Capitol today.’it has a big place in Twitch culture. However, we ca n’t in good conscience continue to enable use of the image’.

The pogchamp emote was removed following statements from the face of the emote encouraging further violence. The emote was seen in the Capitol today.

Pogchamp emote is one of the oldest on Twitch and is widely used by viewers to display excitement in stream chats.’poggers’ has taken off as a general meme expressing surprise over the last few years.

Professional Street Fighter player Ryan’gootecks’ Gutierrez published tweets Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, pro-trump protesters stormed the Capitol building, delaying a vote to certify the results of the 2020 election.