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Kappa

Kappa Meme

Status:
Confirmed
Year:
2011
Origin
Twitch
Kappa

Kappa

Meme
Part of a series on Twitch Emotes
Status:
confirmed
Origin: Twitch
Year: 2011
Type: Emoticon

Added Feb 26, 2015 at 01:12PM EST by Miluk.

Updated Dec 31, 2019 at 04:43AM EST by andcallmeshirley.

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About

Kappa is a graphic emoticon commonly used by trolls as a postscript to a sentence to convey sarcasm on the live streaming video platform Twitch; it's popularity has also lead to the emoticon being used as a form of spam.

Origin

The Kappa emote is based on a grey-scale photograph of Josh DeSeno[1], then an employee of Justin.TV working on the chat client, which was uploaded during the early days of Justin.TV, along with others emotes based on JTV employees.[5][6][7]


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Spread

As of February 2014, the emote is used 900,000 times on average per day;[2] by June 2015 this had already increased to around 1 million times on average per day. Twitch has added a total of four emotes featuring Kappa: Kappa (), Keepo (), MiniK () and KappaHD (); another unique Kappa titled KappaRoss (Bob Ross headgear head forehead hat ), featuring the original with Bob Ross' hair, was added in October 2015 in celebration of Twitch Creative. On February 18th, 2012, r/kappa/ subreddit was established.[3] It has got over 13,900 readers. On July 13th, 2014, first submission for Kappa on Urban Dictionary was made,[4] and on October 13th, the top definition of the "Kappa" emote was submitted by R4D1AT10N.

KappaClaus

In December of 2015, Twitch introduced the KappaClaus emote,[8] a version of the Kappa emote with a Santa Claus hat on his head (shown below). The emote has typically seen an increase in use around December.[9]


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KappaPride

KappaPride is a Twitch emote featuring Kappa with a rainbow background used to affirm or inquire about one's homosexuality. A thread about the emote was posted to Bungie forums[10] in October of 2015. In October of 2015, a study by FiveThirtyEight[12] found that the emote was the second most-used emote on Twitch behind regular Kappa. On November 15th, 2016, Urban Dictionary user defined it as "Rainbow version of twitch emote Kappa. Can be used to affirm or ask about someone's homosexuality."[11] There are several variations on the image available on Twitch.[13]


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