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A word posted when the the words “great!”, “super!”, “fantastic!” and other terms used to convey excitement or sudden joy either aren’t enough, not cool enough to use, or maybe even too long to type. It’s a shortening of pogchamp[1]; the name of an emote on Twitch. Incidentally, “Pog” is an initialism of ‘Passionfruit, Orange, Guava’ from the eponymous 90s playground game. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game[2]). There was an erroneous idea a while back that Pog originally meant ‘Play(er) of the Game’ which was roundly debunked as that usage came about much later, though that meaning has since stuck around.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PogChamp
2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game
r/POG is a community for people to share their collection of Milkcaps, Pogs, or Slammer Whammers.
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