TwitchSpeak 2024: Slang Glossary
1 min readFeb 7, 2024
Glossary of terms for “boomers” and the non-chronically-onliners.
- 5Head: means “very smart.” can be used both sincerely, to praise a streamer’s intelligence, and sarcastically, to mock a streamer’s stupidity.
- Baited/Jebaited: Means to be deceived.
- Boomer: Baby-boomer or senior-aged individual
- Dono: Short for donation.
- Gyat: Another variation of ‘God D***’ or used alongside the word d*** eg; ‘Gyat D***’
- Kappa: An emote on Twitch.Tv that can represent sarcasm, puns, jokes and is usually used at the end of an ironic or sarcastic sentence.
- MonkaS: An emote on Twitch typically used in Twitch chat during moments of high tension in video game matches to express anxiety
- On God (ong/on G): “I swear to God” or “As God as My Witness”
- POG/PogChamp/Poggers: An emote on Twitch.tv that’s usually used to symbolize hype or excitement.
- Raid: A raid is when a streamer sends their viewers to another streamer’s channel. Streamers often conduct raids at the end of their streams
- Rizz — Shortened word for Charisma eg; “‘your name’ has so much rizz”
- Sadge: Can mean sadness or disappointment, usually ironic
- Sigma: A successful self-reliant person, one step above an “alpha.”
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