YEP

About

YEP is an emote on Twitch depicting the face of Pepe the Frog with a slight smile and bulging eyes. Frequently spammed by users on the platform, often with no context, the emote is commonly used as a form of trolling and spam to annoy either streamers or other viewers.

Origin

The image used for the emote is an old variant of Pepe the Frog, which dates back to 2005. This specific version of Pepe surfaces on 4chan^[1] on August 21st, 2013, from the /tg/ Traditional Games board when user Grognardling uploaded the image in a thread.

Within Twitch, the emote (seen below) was submitted to FrankerFaceZ^[2] for the first time by user yaYEET_xD on December 15th, 2019. According to the website’s stats, the emote is used in 1,503 sets. In early February 2020, the extension BetterTTV^[3] highlighted "YEPPP" on their "Trending Emotes" page and listed 57 channels using the emote.

Spread

In late 2019 and early 2020, the YEP emote saw increased usage on Twitch as it was added to more channels where users began spamming the emote repeatedly.

During a stream on January 26th, 2020, from xQcOW’s channel (one of the bigger streamers with over 2 million followers), YEP can be seen being spammed by various viewers taken from this screenshot of the chat here.

After the chat was flooded with uses of YEP, a deleted Redditor then posted to the r/xqcow^[4] subreddit on January 27th petitioning the removal of the emote, which received 18 comments, mostly of other users spamming “YEP.”

On Twitter, several streamers can be seen using the emote in various tweets, but it’s especially seen from other users on the platform as a way to reply to these posts. One example of this can be seen on NymN’s Twitter^[5], where the emote is commonly uploaded by his followers.

YEP COCK

As YEP continued to spread, the emote was often accompanied with the text “COCK” following directly after it. Seen in a clip from streamer Reckful, he and Dr. K began to discuss why this phenomenon was happening and what it meant. Viewers of the stream then began to rapidly spam the emote and accompanying text, seen in the clip below.

On November 29th, 2019, Redditor^[6] agenttud explained use of the phrase. They wrote:

To my understanding, it evolved from the offline ping/notification of the titlechange bot. Initially, everybody spammed " FeelsGoodMan Clap ", with some people adding dots (.) to spam (known as "dotspamming" or "spamming with dots OMEGALUL" OMGScoots ), since you can't send the same message twice in a row in the browser chat. People with Chatterino started to also add them ironically (since they are not required on Chatterino).

When TeaTime was added, it became FeelsGoodMan TeaTime , then Okayga TeaTime and Okayge TeaTime respectively (when those emotes were added). The "COCK" and other words became a thing because people started using other words (like "dot") with the combo to "spam", especially because bajs love everything gachi.

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