Twitch

popularised ~2015-present · 50 terms catalogued

Twitch chat is the single most prolific source of post-2015 internet slang. Emotes (PogChamp, KEKW, monkaS, OMEGALUL) generated whole vocabularies that escaped the platform via Discord, TikTok, and gaming subreddits. If you see all-caps mid-sentence, it probably started here.