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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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Spread
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]
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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.
Search Interest
External References
[1] Twitter – @HiredHelp
[2] Reddit – What Exactly Does Sourpls Mean?
[3] Urban Dictionary – sourpls
[4] Streamer News via Wayback Machine – Streamer News Guide: BTTV Global Emotes – What They Mean & When To Use Them
[5] CharlieStMonica – SourPls | Enhance your Twitch Chat experience with personal, shared and global BTTV emotes
[6] Reddit – What Happened to SourPls?
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