SourPls

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About

SourPls is a Twitch emote featuring a man dancing. It only works with the Better Twitch TV plug-in for web browsers. It is used to denote celebration or dancing on the part of the poster.

Origin

The SourPls GIF comes from a YouTube video posted April 17th, 2007 by user SourNotHardcore (shown below).

One of the earliest mentions of the emote online came January 28th, 2014 by Twitter user @HiredHelp,^[1] who pointed out how excess use of the emote rendered the chat unreadable (shown below).

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On December 7th, 2014, an inquiry about the meaning of SourPls was posted to the subreddit /r/Twitch.^[2] On March 19th, 2015, the emote was defined on Urban Dictionary as "An animated Twitch emote of somebody dancing, that only works with the Better Twitch TV plugin."^[3]

TOP DEFINITION sourpls An animated Twitch emote of somebody dancing, that only works with the Better Twitch TV plugin. sodapoppin Has Come Online Chat: SourPls SourPls SourPls

In July of 2015, interest in SourPls spiked as several users speculated that BTTV had removed SourPls.^[6]^[7] However, this was untrue. BTTV had recently implemented an update where a user would have to manually turn on GIF setting to make GIFs appear.

On October 26th, 2015, Streamer News mentioned the emote in a tutorial on using BTTV.^[4] Blogger CharlieStMonica^[5] did the same in February of 2017.