Meet Kappa, the sarcastic Twitch meme and your new frenemy.
Meet Kappa.
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Kappa is an emote used on Twitch, a streaming platform where gamers gather to broadcast their gameplay to millions of viewers.
The grayed-out face belongs to a former Justin.tv employee named Josh. Justin.tv would later become Twitch Interactive when the streaming website decided to focus strictly on streaming video gameplay. Now, Twitch — purchased by Amazon in 2014 for $970 million — is one of the most popular sites on the Internet.
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Kappa is just one out of thousands of emotes on Twitch.
To use them on the website, you simply type a corresponding word (in this case, "Kappa") into the chat box. When you hit enter to send your message, an emote will appear in place of the word.
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But no other Twitch emote has transcended into the Pantheon of Memes quite like Kappa.
On Twitch alone, the Kappa emote is used roughly 1 million times a day on average, according to Twitch Emotes.
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