Inspired by other guides such as "How To Be One With Pasterino" and "Twitch.tv chat Etiquette" (RIP), this guide aims to serve as an updated resource for anybody wanting to learn the intricacies of Twitch Chat.

• Explain what "emotes" and "copypasta" are
  
• Explain the history and usage behind significant Twitch emotes
  
• Explain how to some emotes correlate to copypastas
  
• Explain some other stuff I can't think of right now

• Provide a library of copypastas. That's what "How To Be One With Pasterino" and numerous other resources are for
  
• Advise you on what streams to visit or pastas to spam. That's something you find out yourself.
  
• Encourage excessive use of memes. Last time somebody tried that they OD'd on and nobody in chat knew. Meme in moderation.

If you're not here for a thorough run-down of how chat works from the ground up, just search what you want to know with Control+F.


Without further ado,

twitch.tv is a website for gaming livestreams. All livestreams are accompanied by a chatroom beside it, free for anybody with a Twitch account to speak their mind.

• In streams with a viewer count under 100, chat usually a large room of simultaneous conversations.
  
• In streams with a viewer count around 1000, civil discussion can be had and is still 100% readable.
  
• In streams with a viewer count of several thousand, in the words of chat itself:
  

  chat moves so fast that nobody will know im gay

• In streams with a viewer count above 10,000 or more, chat becomes an anarchy of mostly unmoderated yelling, full of ripe dank memes ready for the copying and pasting.

twitch.tv's own guide to Chat Basics[help.twitch.tv]

That so-called "official" guide to chat basics doesn't even tell you to spam !

That's why this guide exists; to educate plebs like you in the ways of true Twitch Chat.

Depends on the situation. If chat is dead/slow, treat it like a standard IRC. If not, unleash the emotes/copypastas and hope somebody else in chat reposts.

Warning: Not all streamers/chats might appreciate the finesse of good emote/pasta use. Use in moderation.


Emotes are pictures in chat. Examples of this are , and

They can also be used to enhance a message.

WHERE ARE YOU NOW (losing team) FANGAYS?

They enjoy being spammed. Constantly if possible.

Hello, my name is Keepo and I want to ask you something. My friend Kappa needs your help. He wants to find some more Kappa friends. So please, spam Kappa as much as possible in the chat, so that my friend Kappa could find more of his Kappa friends. It makes a big difference, thank you!

Use them as they become relevant.

• Say when you're joking.
  
• Say when something sad happens.
  
• Spam when RTZ does something stupid

If the streamer / somebody in game chat explicitly says an emote, it is YOUR duty to spam chat together as a collective brain tumour


A block of text copied and pasted around by multiple people. They range from simple text messages to large walls of ASCII art.

ʕ ͡·ᴥ ͡· ʔ You've been visited by Hellbear Smasher of fortune. Clap your paws and copy paste this message 5 times without getting banned by mods and luck be with you for the next year ʕ ͡·ᴥ ͡· ʔ

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They can be found in many places on the internet, not just in Twitch chat. One of the most infamous copypastas is the Navy Seal copypasta[knowyourmeme.com]


For starters, something else that is already being spammed is easily repostable. But for a larger library of pastas, consult resources such as

• How To Be One With Pasterino,
  
• http://nocopypasterino.org/ ,
  
• Copypasterino.me - Twitch copypastas, ASCII, and Dongers![copypasterino.me] or
  
• The Best of Twitch Chat[www.thebestoftwitch.com]

If you're brave and willing to lose a few IQ points in exchange for making your own copypasta, you can use special font by visiting sites like

• Copypasta Builder[www.twitchquotes.com] or Messletters[www.messletters.com] which let you type in that dank meme font,
  
• http://fullwidthtext.blogspot.ca/ which only does text to ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ but loads the quickest,
  
• this ASCII archive[gist.github.com] or http://emojicons.com/ for those weird Japanese character-based faces, and
• "Do People Google my Copy Pasta?"[copypastacopypaste.blogspot.sg].

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Warning: If you see another person get timed out because of copypasta, hold your fire until chat starts moving faster. Faster chat makes it harder for moderators to get to you, unless you spam every 3 seconds as if you were asking to be banned.

Smaller channels with a low viewcount and slow chat will probably be unappreciative of any sort of pasta, let alone respond.

The longer and more disruptive of "muh chat experience " the pasta is, the more likely mods will take action. Unless their leader died in World War II

When chat only allows unique messages, spamming the same message repeatedly becomes prohibited, but can be easily circumvented by adding a few characters like numbers after your pasta.

GO STREAM ♥♥♥♥♥♥

GO STREAM ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 1

GO STREAM ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 2

do like above, that's , just don't do like below.

GO STREAM ♥♥♥♥♥♥

GO STREAM ♥♥♥♥♥♥

or you'll get

Your message was not sent because it is identical to the previous one you sent, less than 30 seconds ago.

When moobot is activated in chat (which it almost always is) you can be timed out for CAPSLOCK spam, which could be collateral for spamming emotes with lots of capital letters like ANELE. Spam wisely.

If somebody else reposts your pasta, you have succeeded! Well done! //

This is a well known rule on the Internet but since you're looking at a guide on Twitch chat I presume you didn't already know. Some strawpoll links are also fake, they could be screamers so be wary before you click one.

Another rule of the Internet. If someone is seriously threatening the streamer/somebody else in chat just mute him and forget the lowlife ever existed. Please don't encourage any more toxicity than we already have.

It just makes you look like a huge d-bag and idiot. It's not a copypasta if only one person uses it. Nobody appreciates this, as pointed out by the standard reply of "one man spam " and high chance of being timed out or even banned from the channel

A list of all default emotes is available here[twitchemotes.com]


This following list won't cover every single emote, just the ones that are significant enough in the average chat to be worth mentioning.

• 4Head
  
  Description: This is the face of a popular Twitch streamer. twitch.tv/cadburryftw
  
  Laughing face. Spammed whenever somebody lets out an infectious laugh. Coupled with other laughing faces like EleGiggle and SoBayed for maximum kek.
  
  
• ANELE
  
  Description: This is the face of Twitch Partnerships Lead Anele. twitch.tv/anele
  
  Looks like it's wearing a turban, therefore it's associated with anything to do with Middle Eastern people (eg. Suma1l or Techies)
  
  
• BabyRage
  
  A raging baby. Spammed when there is a squeaking noise that sounds like a baby.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiKIhBI688Y
  
  Mostly used to describe Arteezy
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAWVfbex5HY
  
  or in conjunction with PJSalt to describe immature salty rage
  
  
• BibleThump
  
  The face of Isaac, the titular character in the original Binding of Isaac
  
  Essentially used as a crying face, BibleThump can apply to any sort of emotional situation.
  
  Examples include:
  
  

  muh chat experience

  jia you

  LEPO LEPO

  
  
• BloodTrail
  
  Super Meat Boy, from Super Meat Boy.
  
  A thumbs up emote. Sometimes used when Bloodseeker gets picked but hardly ever gets used because it's not good enough
  
  
• BrokeBack
  
  Description: This is the face of streamer Alan. twitch.tv/seriousgaming
  
  Derpface. I'd say it's used together with stupid messages, but that statement applies to everything in chat
  
  
• CoolCat
  
  It's a cool cat. Spammed whenever somebody is wearing sunglasses. Otherwise it's a general use emote.
  
  
• DansGame
  
  Description: This is the face of Dan. twitch.tv/dansgaming
  
  Used to express disgust or identify yourself as a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ who likes AdmiralBulldog
  
  
• DatSheffy
  
  Description: This is the face of Twitch staff member Sheffy. twitch.tv/sheffy
  
  Cool guy. Cooler than CoolCat, even.
  Sheffy is known to watch some DOTA 2 streamerrs and chat will spam his face if they notice him.
  
  

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• deIlluminati
  
  Description: This is a promotional emote for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
  
  The Eye of Providence[en.wikipedia.org] known most as the logo for the obviously existent Illuminati. Occassionally used as a replacement for the letter "A" like in RV
  
  
• DendiFace
  Description: This is the face of Danil "Dendi" Ishutin a professional Dota2 player. The emote is a temporary https://twitter.com/Trancez0r/status/534501083796611073 prize given to the winner of the Twitch Doube Trouble tournament. Although Dendi's team didn't actually win the tournament, the prize was graciously(?) given to Dendi by the winner. https://twitter.com/Trancez0r/status/534501692285673472 . The code itself is reference to what trolls use for the WinWaker emote.
  
  Little copypasta history: "WinWaker = Dendi Face (no space)" used to be one of the most spammed pastas on any Dota 2 stream. This emote is a nod to that old joke.
  
  There is never a bad time to use DendiFace. Pairs extremely well with PuppeyFace
  
  
  
  

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  The best times are when Dendi himself is in the game, or there is a pudge in the game (but what's the difference am I right? )
  
  
  
  

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• DogFace
  Description: DogFace is the face of Kyle Pulver, an indie game developer that added :dogface: to Steam.
  
  In the same vein as WinWaker-DendiFace, "FrankerZ = Dog Face (no space)".
  Also looks like Zyori.
  
  
• duDudu
  
  Darude Sandstorm visualisation
  
  
• EleGiggle
  Description: This is the face of Twitch streamer Elegy of Games. twitch.tv/elegyofgames
  
  Extreme laughing, harder than 4Head. Usually added to the end of a hilarious joke to further emphasise how hilarious it was.
  
  
• FailFish
  Description: This is the face of streamer SpamFish. twitch.tv/spamfish
  
  Facepalm.
  Not exclusive to fails, it can also suit other embarrassing situations such as cringe.
  
  
• FrankerZ
  
  Most popular with the speedrunning community.
  
  
  
  
  
  In Dota 2 streams, it represents Puppey ( who has his own emote just like Dendi ). Gets spammed frequently during pauses, making reference to the notorious "Puppey Pause/Paws"
  
  
  
• HeyGuys
  
  Description: This is the face of Selen, director of recruiting at Twitch.
  
  Represents greeting. Chat gets flooded with these when somebody on stream or in chat says hi.
  Also applies to situations where a girl visible on stream.
  
  
• KAPOW
  
  Description: This is a promotional emote for the game Infinite Crisis.
  
  Onomatopoeia. Rarely used alone, it is almost always complemented by text.
  Examples include, but are not exclusive to:
  
  • VOD KAPOW ER
    
  • CY KAPOW ER
    
  • PI KAPOW ER

• Kappa
  
  Description: This is the face of Josh, a former Justin.tv employee. Kappa is generally used to indicate sarcasm or trolling.
  
  https://youtu.be/7sHfEJ4eNt4
  
  The defining Twitch emote. Never wrong to use/spam. The man this was modeled after also seems to enjoy the attention.[lazythunk.com]
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  Kappa variations
  • KappaPride
    
    Description: On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex couples can marry nationwide. You can read the full decision at: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf The rainbow coloring is a symbol of the LGBT pride movement.
    
    Kappa's older gay brother. Spammed whenever a suggestively homosexual interaction occurs.
    
    
  • KappaRoss
    
    Description: In honor of the late Bob Ross's 73rd birthday and the official launch of the Creative directory, Twitch created this emote - a mashup of Kappa and Bob's distinctive hair. Twitch also ran a non-stop marathon of all 403 episodes of "The Joy of Painting" on twitch.tv/bobross
    
    Another royal memeber of the Kappa dynasty. Its addition allows for creative pasta.
    
    

    Kappa My hair is a mess Let me fix it NotLikeThis That's better KappaRoss

    
    
  • Keepo
    
    Description: Keepo is Kappa stylized as the hero Meepo from DotA/DotA 2.
    
    Kappa's cheeky younger brother. Obviously spammed when there's a Meepo in the game.
    Occasionally, KOTL is called "Keepo of the Light"
  
  
• KevinTurtle
  
  Description: This is the face of Klutch, part of the Twitch moderation team. twitch.tv/klutch
  
  Black guy emote number 1.
  
  
• Kippa
  
  Kappa's distant cousin? Nobody really knows.
  
  
• Kreygasm
  
  Description: This is the face of streamer Kreyg. twitch.tv/kreyg
  
  Reaction when something sexual/shocking happens, like a clutch play or a hot grill.
  
  
• Mau5
  
  Description: The Mau5 emote belongs to music producer Deadmau5. twitch.tv/deadmau5
  
  Sighted when a streamer plays the 4 minute edit of Strobe because he's too big of a scrub to sit through the whole 8 minutes like a real man.
  
  In Dota 2, killing a tower while the other team is occupied, then fleeing as soon as they react to defend is known as "ratting". Most prominent in TI3, where the strategy shaped the outcome of the finals. Rat = Mouse, so chat spams when somebody is ratting.
  
  Also there was that drama about deadmau5 "ruining TI5" so it's probably more common now.
  
  
• MingLee
  
  Description: The face of Chris Mead, the Director of Partnerships EMEA at Twitch.
  
  Used to express sass, similar to Kappa and SoBayed.
  For future reference - during the first few days of MingLee's existence, chats everywhere were flooded with it, completely eclipsing any other emote (including Kappa).
  
  You'd see ♥♥♥♥ like
  
  

  FAT AND SINGLE READY TO MINGLEE

  
  and nothing else.
  
  It has since then (thankfully) declined in popularity
  
  

  "The MingLee - Kappa wars were a series of conflicts which took place on Twitch channels toward later-2015. The belligerents were the new King's men of MingLee fighting against the revoltists of former King Kappa.

  
  
• MrDestructoid
  
  Description: This is the mascot of the gaming website Destructoid. twitch.tv/destructoid
  
  Associated with anything electronic/robotic, especially heavy electronic music or faulty microphones.
  
  
• NotATK
  
  This guy
  
  Looks like Hao and Blitz, but can be used to represent any bespectacled Asian.
  
  
• NotLikeThis
  
  No source, just another facepalm/cringe emote.
  
  
• OneHand
  
  Description: This is the face of streamer EdwardStarcraft.
  
  Represents asians, or more specifically related to Dota 2, Merlini.
  
  
• OpieOP
  
  Description: This is the face of Jason Babo. Strategic Partnerships at TwitchTV and a Web Developer. twitch.tv/opie
  
  Represents fat people in general.
  
  Looks like XBOCT. May also be used to describe s4 because of the "4" meme (see below)
  
  
• OSfrog
  
  Description: This is a promotional emote for the Old Spice Nature Adventure where Twitch chat controlled a man's adventures in nature.
  
  Icefrog works on balancing Dota 2. Icefrog = frog = OSfrog.
  Spammed when somebody complains about OP/imbalanced things in-game.
  
  Update 20/1/2016: Twitch removed it saying that promotions expired
  https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/689612371359203329
  
  Update 21/1/2016: Twitch added it back
  https://twitter.com/twitch/status/689894221004730369
  
  
• panicBasket
  
  Description: This emote was voted into existence by the Twitch Townhall attendees during PAX Prime 2014. It is inspired by the phrase "PICNIC" (based on PANIC) spammed in chat when a stream goes offline during a broadcast.
  
  
• PipeHype
  
  Description: The PipeHype emote is of Pipe, part of the Twitch moderation team. It also looks a bit like Wil Wheaton. twitch.tv/pipe
  
  More importantly it also looks like Kuroky
  
  
• PJSalt
  
  Description: PJ stands for PeacefulJay, a Fighting Game Community (FGC) stream: twitch.tv/peacefuljay and Salt is a term used in the FGC to describe someone who is upset.
  
  

  Sodium, atomic number 11, was first isolated by Peter Dager in 1807. A chemical component of salt, he named it Na in honor of the saltiest region on earth, North America.

  
  More on the origin of salty[testyourmight.com]

• PMSTwin
  
  Description: This is the face of Twitch staff member & PMS clan founder Amber Dalton.
  
  Another grill emote.
  Also looks like Sheever or Zai.
  
  
• PogChamp
  
  Description: This is the face of streamer Gootecks. twitch.tv/gootecks
  
  These days, it seems like the humble PogChamp has completely forgotten its conception and is instead used to denote excitement or surprise.
  
  Also used to express intrigue with a little shock, like
  
  

  WTF 3 MERLINIS

  
  Use together with and to step up your emote game
  
  
• PraiseIt
  
  Description: This is the icon for the Helix Fossil item in Pokemon games. It became a meme as part of the TwitchPlaysPokemon streams.
  
  
• PuppeyFace
  
  Description: This is the face of Clement "Puppey" Ivanov a professional Dota2 player. twitch.tv/puppey
  
  
  
  Essentially the new FrankerZ, it is sometimes seen high fiving DendiFace. RIP Old Navi .
  
  

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• RalpherZ
  
  Description: This is the face of Ralph the dog of Twitch staff member Ernest Le. Brother of FrankerZ.
  
  RalpherZ is to FrankerZ as Keepo is to Kappa.
  Literally the underdog. Hardly sees as much use as his brother.
  
  
• ResidentSleeper
  
  Description: This is the face of Oddler. Oddler was doing a 72 hour Resident Evil marathon when he fell asleep about 66 hours into it. His stream with him sleeping became massively popular and at one point the viewer count even reached 13,000. twitch.tv/oddler
  
  Used when the stream gets boring, or continues late enough into the night that people get sleepy.
  
  
• RuleFive
  
  Description: This is the face of streamer Chuk. twitch.tv/whenchukattacks
  
  Also the face of Fear
  
  
• shazamicon (removed)
  
  Description: This is a promotional emote for the game Infinite Crisis.
  
  Spammed heavily whenever a Zeus is picked or gets a kill.
  Complements OneHand because Merlini is famous for his Zeus plays.
  
  

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• ShibeZ
  
  Description: This is a Dogecoin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin
  
  
• SMOrc
  
  Description: This is an icon from the game Space Marine.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0afN7mNdOV4
  
  Most prominent in chat when Ogre Magi was part of the meta. Otherwise spammed when people are making references to other games.
  
  
• SoBayed
  
  Description: This is the face of SONOS, Twitch staff member and streamer. twitch.tv/s0n0s
  
  Part of the holy trinity of sassy faces that are 4Head EleGiggle SoBayed.
  
  
• SwiftRage
  
  Description: This is the face of streamer Swiftor. twitch.tv/swiftor
  
  Shouting Face. Used to denote loud noises or cheering.
  (Note) Remember to put it in front of your message for extra style points
  
  
• TriHard
  
  Description: This is the face of speed runner Trihex. twitch.tv/trihex
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BLmPd4W-sY
  
  The preferred alternative to KevinTurtle. Black guy emote number 2
  
  
• TTours
  
  Twitch camera.
  
  Spammed during pro games when the cameraman misses some action.
  Also part of r V
  
  
• UncleNox
  
  Description: This is the face of Nox, part of the Twitch moderation team. Rumor is that he does not wear pants. twitch.tv/nox
  
  Looks like Loda.
  
  
• VaultBoy
  
  Description: This is a promotional emote for Bethesda's Fallout franchise. Vault Boy is the mascot for the fictional corporation known as Vault-Tec within the Fallout universe.
  
  Somewhat niche use. Chances are if you spot one outside of a Fallout stream, it's a Fallout reference.
  
  
• WinWaker
  
  Description: This is the face of speed runner CosmoWright. twitch.tv/cosmowright
  
  A real talent in his own right, but got overshadowed when the "WinWaker = Dendi Face (no space)" pasta caught on. However, after the addition of a real DendiFace, this emote saw more consistent use in Zelda related speedruns, which Cosmo is known for, and GDQ streams, which he has attended in the past.
  
  
• WutFace
  
  Description: This is the face of Twitch staff member Alex Mendez. twitch.tv/goldenboyftw
  
  Denotes confusion and fear, or "wut?". Can also apply to sudden or strange things happening.

Main site: https://nightdev.com/betterttv/

BTTV is an add-on installed within your browser, designed to enhance your stream viewing chat spamming experience

I can't say enough about the staggering number of improvements it makes. It has everything from a more readable chat to its own custom emotes. You know you want this.

1. Night mode chat that is actually readable
   
2. Ability to keep removed messages (that are most of the time safe links that bots remove)
   
3. Emote menu that allows a whole emote's syntax to be typed at once, also reveals emote syntax for newbs so no more looking like a pleb by typing GreyFace in chat
   
4. 
   
5. Blacklisted / Highlighted Keywords: to remove less desirable spam or notify you of your username being mentioned in chat

A list of BTTV emotes is available here.[nightdev.com] However, be warned that most of them are terrible and thankfully will never see the light of day.

Also some Halloween emotes were added in late October 2015 and removed after Halloween was over, but I'm too lazy to document them.

• CiGrip
  
  - Smoking/Blazing it.
  
  
• HailHelix
  
  - The Helix Fossil from the first TwitchPlaysPokemon run.
  - Better quality than PraiseIt
  
  
• KKona
  
  - idk it's just funny
  
  
• ConcernDoge
  
  - Doge meme.
  
  
• SourPls
  
  - Dancing. Always spammed when a good song comes on.
  - (Note) This may not show up if you do not have gif emotes enabled under BTTV settings.
  
  
• AngelThump
  
  - The custom antithesis to BibleThump
  
  
• haHAA
  
  - Shy Ronnie
  - An extreme version of EleGiggle / 4Head. Used in place of laughing emotes or when somebody laughs like Shy Ronnie
  
  
• GabeN
  
  - The face of the legendary Gabe Newell[en.wikipedia.org].
  
  
• bUrself
  
  - "be(e) yourself"
  - A niche pepe. Only spammed when there are bees or somebody on stream mentions this emote by name.
  
  
• FeelsBadMan
  
  - The most common pepe of all. Still valuable enough to spam in chat when needed, though.
  - A grown up BibleThump for times that are too horrible to just cry.
  
  more on pepes: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog
  
  
• FeelsGoodMan
  
  - The antithesis to FeelsBadMan, although its use rarely means the opposite of FeelsBadMan.
  Its relationship is similar to that of Kappa and Keepo, being the slightly more obscure but still loved emote.
  
  
• FeelsBirthdayMan
  
  - Tiny and underappreciated pepe
  
  
• KaRappa
  
  Visual parody of PaRappa
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaRappa_the_Rapper
  

  PaRappa the Rapper is a rhythm video game for the original PlayStation created by Masaya Matsuura and his NanaOn-Sha company. The game is remembered for its unique graphic design, its quirky soundtrack and its bizarre plot.

  
  
• KappaCool
  
  - Similar to DatSheffy and CoolCat, but it's also a Kappa
  
  
• Zappa
  
  - Zombie Kappa, not to be confused with Frank Zappa

wasting your money by Subscribing to a streamer gives you access to several mediocre at best chat features like the ability to talk in chat during nazi sub-only mode and use special sub emotes that can be used in any chat


Hell no, there are hundreds and each have their individual uses apart from the dozens of "krippW"s and the like. It's impossible to talk about every single one. Majority of them can be substituted with the default emotes and most of them barely see any use anyway so it'd be a waste of everybody's time to even discuss it.





On a serious note, if you actually want to support a streamer, follow them on Twitch and their social media or consider donating to them directly rather than subscribing to them. Subscription money goes through Twitch, which means the streamer ultimately ends up with a fraction of the money spent by the viewer.

When typing emotes out manually, ensure that they are spaced out properly, like

shazamicon \ OneHand / shazamicon

so it shows up properly as

\ /

If it were instead typed as

shazamicon\OneHand/shazamicon

it wouldn't parse properly and show up in chat looking exactly the way you typed it, bringing shame to your ancestors.

Thankfully BTTV's emote menu automatically adds spacing so you'll never look like an idiot again!


Combine several emotes in a single message for dankimum memeficieny, like

RAVE INVITED TO TI5 TO WASH TOILETS

or

R V

• grill
  
  Corrupted spelling of "girl". Ironic joke about immature men on the internet who drool at the first sight of a girl.
  
  
  
  
• dongers
  
  As hilarious as it is, its origin lies in League of Peasants so I'm not going to bother explaining it myself.
  http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/raise-your-dongers
  
  
• muh chat experience
  
  Usually said by a lone survivor of large amounts of spam
  
  
  
  
• Darude - Sandstorm a.k.a DUDUDUDUDU
  
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU
  
  Far more than simply a Twitch chat joke, let alone a meme. It's a culutral phenomenon that has found its way into everything from gaming livestreams to modern electronic dance music.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EpgsQVl_iQ
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esMnme69t2M
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiPrPK6zRsg
  
  But if you don't really care about it the same way I do, Sandstorm is a meme simply because it's old as ♥♥♥♥[en.wikipedia.org] and apparently it's the only answer when people ask "song name?" even when it's obviously not Sandstorm.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NeyR8qjpn0
  
  Darude is also well aware of his impact on eSports and has attended some gaming events to play an mp3 of Sandstorm live as well.
  
  How Darude feels making the only song in eSports[www.redbull.com]
  
  For DreamHack 2013 SC2 a.k.a dead gaem : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqZ3vWdGsEw
  
  For TI4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC35wa8ypNg
  
  It's also worthy to note that it shares its name with the completely unrelated DOTA2 hero Sand King's ability, Sand Storm[dota2.gamepedia.com]
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zZ2GzQoqDo
  
  
• ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ take my energy ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
  
  

  There's a japanese cartoon called Dragon Ball Z, where the main character, Goku, beats up a bunch of aliens, androids and genetic monstrosities. One of Goku's special moves for beating up the bad guys is the spirit bomb, which requires Goku to gather energy from every living thing, and then throw at the bad guy.
  In one of the final episodes, Goku has to convince the whole universe to give him enough energy to beat the last bad guy, And they all raise their hands in the air to give their energy.

  
  - /u/YouOnlyLiveFOREVER
  
  only really used for EternalEnvy or Cloud 9, since it's anime-related and EE is a huge weaboo.
  
  
• NICE LA
  
  Encouragement, simply meaning a complimentary "nice".
  
  "La" or "Lah" is a South-East Asian colloquialism used to bolster the tone in a sentence. In this instance, it is used to indicate the excited tone denoted by "nice", further emphasising its use as a form of encouragement.
  
  
• KA LE
  
  Common phrase used by Chinese players to point out in-game lag.
  
  
• jia you
  
  Chinese phrase meaning "come on!" or "go!".
  Popularised by rOtK's player profile video @ TI5:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drC-OfVk__c
  
  
• WAOW
  
  LD's overexaggerated cast @ TI3
  
  
  WAOW sign at TI5
  
  
  
• No one has ever done that in the history of DOTA
  
  Tobi hypes an old No Tidehunter play (RIP EE )
  Skip to 1m 32s for the quote
  https://youtu.be/MAWK5kNDDlM
  
  
• IT'S A DISASTER
  
  Tobi being tobi @ the first International
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd4TDvNQHds
  
  
• LIQUID ARE DOING IT / THEY'RE ALL DEAD
  
  Beyond the Summit intro:
  
  
  Direct quotes from the BTS intro that plays before matches. Dammit LD.

• WTF [number] MERLINI(s)
  
  During TI4 Group Stage, the analyst panel consisted of Chobra, Synderen, Merlini and Winter; a Dane and 3 Asians. The joke is that asians look alike, so it appeared to the casual observer that there were 3 Merlinis. More here
  
  
• ILL EAGLE
  
  arteezy makes some grill cry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_tsNMJ_P5c
  
  her fake crying makes her sound like she's saying "ill eagle" instead of "illegal"
  
  
• hey its me ur brother / sir its me ur brother
  
  hey: http://imgur.com/gallery/562v8W4
  sir: http://imgur.com/a/sNOYy
  
  the addition of "sir" to the original joke is a parody of pinoy/peruvian speaking, further emphasising how stupid they are
  
  
• WWWWWWWWWWWW ( a lot of Ws )
  
  Some streamers have a text-to-speech program that reads out donation messages. People can abuse this by repeating a long and annoying character like "W" or "^" (carrot) to disturb the streamer.
  
  
• ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE
  
  In late 2013, the DOTA 2 Halloween event Diretide got cancelled after a successful launch the previous year. Naturally, fans were outraged, and demanded for Valve/Volvo to "༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE".
  
  They may have taken the joke too far, however:
  
  https://www.change.org/p/valve-corperation-%E3%81%A4-%E3%81%A4-give-diretide
  https://www.reddit.com/r/Volvo/comments/1pp74t/wtf_volvo_why_no_diretide/
  https://www.reddit.com/r/Volvo/top/?sort=top&t=all
  
  
• Addressing Valve as "Volvo"
  
  A corrupted spelling of Valve, used in a demanding tone usually begging Valve to get something done.
  
  
• VAC
  
  Spammed when it looks as if cheats were used, implying somebody should be VAC banned
  More on VAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Anti-Cheat
  
  
• Easy bugattis / other expensive car brands
  
  Exaggeration of the "Thanks for easy rares" joke, which implies that a game is so heavily in favour of one team that betting on them would guarantee easy Rare items won. Expensive cars like bugattis being won imply that a large value was placed as a bet, and that the person is extremely confident in their team securing victory.

Stereotypically used by angry non-native English speakers who can't convey their emotions strongly enough in English.

You may encounter some of these anywhere on the Internet, from in in-game chat in your pubs to whiny forums using them ironically in order to joke about how stupid people who use these seriously actually are.

Note that some words are spaced out or censored manually by me so Steam's automatic censor doesn't cover up the entire word.

• Peruvian
  
  Now you, too, can have your own meagre knowledge of a foreign language, just like the scumbags themselves!
  
  
  • smash es mi pastor
    
    translates to: "Smash is my shepard"
    
    used by Peruvians who worship their only representative in competitive DOTA 2
    
    
  • p u t a madre
    
    translates to: "motherf---er". In Spanish, "p u t a" means f--- and "madre" means mother
  
  
• Russian
  
  With the worldwide takeover of the Communist regime, it's no surprise to see Cyrillic script anywhere on the Internet. Learn how to fight back in their native tongue with phrases like:
  
  
  • c y k a ♥♥♥♥♥
    
    pronounced "su-ka blee-ut"
    translates to: "b i t c h", "c y k a" holds meaning and "♥♥♥♥♥" exists to emphasise it
    
    
  • davai
    
    translates to: "lets go / come on / give it to me", depending on context
    
    
  • idi ♥♥♥♥♥
    
    translates to: "go f--- (yourself)"
    
    
  • ♥♥♥♥♥♥
    
    translates to: "f---ing", as in the English adjective
  
  
• Filipino / Pinoy
  
  
  • putang ina mo
    
    translates to: "your mother is a w ♥♥♥♥", from Spanish p u t a ‎(“p rostitute”) + Ilocano ina ‎(“mother”) + mo ‎(“your”)
    
    
  • wew
    
    means "wow": http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wew
  
  
• Chinese
  
  This is where I'd explain Chinese phrases, but they rarely get typed out in character because most computers don't have Chinese keyboard input installed.
  
  
  • 卡了 (ka le)
    
    pronounced "kǎ le"
    see "General Text Memes" for more info.
    
    
  • 加油 (jia you)
    
    pronounced "jiā yóu"
    see "General Text Memes" for more info.

• 322
  
  On June 16th, 2013, Solo received a lifetime ban from Starladder for betting fraud against zRage.[1] On the 21st, Solo was officially removed from RoX after admitting his involvement.[2]. Later, the ban was commuted to one year.[3]
  
  The amount that Solo won from betting against his own team was $322, although he never received the money. Since then, Dota commentators and viewers frequently use the phrase "322" to mock particularly bad plays, implying that it almost appears that the player in question is attempting to throw the game.
  
  Source: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Solo
  
  Sometimes referred to as "322 the dream".
  Also relevant when the score is 3-22
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is_35vwh-Z4
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etc5b1LoEnI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p-1ReMdJ6k
  
  this following one isn't exactly a 322 but still deserves a mention
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhyUsGKyrlM
  
  
  
  
• 644, 966, 1288 etc.
  
  These are multiples of 322 (2 x 322, 3 x 322 etc.), meaning multiple 322s have happened in a row, usually back and forth between teams. Although most people in chat don't have the mental capacity to do basic multiplication or keep track of the consecutive throws, so this is much rarer than normal 322.
  
  
• 4
  
  BTS aka Beyond the Summit rated XBOCT a 4/10 for his carry ability
  Means the same thing as
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6WZTcchttQ
  
  
  
  
  
• 17%
  
  Spirit Breaker's chance to bash. Most used when somebody skillfully gets multiple bashes in a row as Spirit Breaker or somebody unfortunately gets bashed multiple times in a row (and sometimes gets y over it)
  
  
• -2
  
  The text that hovers over a dying hero corpse when killed in the vicinity of a Silencer. Chat spams this to haunt the player over the eternally lost intelligence.
  
  
• +5 / -25
  
  Referencing MMR (matchmaking ranking) gain/loss, typically used like " -25 incoming " as a prediction of a loss.

• Arteezy
  • LMFAO wHo cAREAS HAHA Xd
    
    
  • PETER
    
    Another joke about his lack of age. It simulates a young Artour yelling for Peter aka PPD to help him, as a good support should.
    
    
  • Good jokes mate real funny See u at ♥♥♥♥ YOUJ
    
    
    
    He's also notorious for the horrible demon-summoning music on his stream
    
    
    
    No, not Demon.
    
    
    
    That's more like it.
    
    RTZ puts on trash like
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OiCYNDNV9k
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMgkt9jdjTU
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldN9fNhZcsQ
    
    If it weren't for how ironically he does it or how he manages to keep his stream entertaining by being , people would keep his stream muted 24/7.
    
    
  • con ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gratys u can buy null talis
    
    https://i.imgur.com/5WyOdWt.jpg
  
  
• DeMoN
  • Classic Jimmy
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2tY9BuPNxc
  
  
• EternalEnvy
  • (repeated); FURION CAN YOU TP TOP?
    
    EternalEnvy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fu3LSM0Rq4
    
    
  • (repeated); DROP YOUR STICK / AEGIS AND CHEESE / WE DO NOT HAVE ROOM
    
    EE again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye4AkBocrro
  
  
• n0tail
  • n0tail u r ♥♥♥♥♥♥ perfect m8
    
    https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1v8nk7/i_need_to_express_my_feels_for_n0tail_plz_listen/
    https://i.imgur.com/7edJXko.jpg
    
    
  • so smart
    
    n0tail, puppey and h4nni @ The Summit 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAor3v_dsSU
  
  
  
• Stay in the trees
  
  hyhy in the Free 2 Play documentary: https://youtu.be/UjZYMI1zB9s?t=3140
  
  
• Sheever ravage
  
  Referencing the multiple times Sheever hit nobody with Ravage
  youtube.com/watch?v=aXrsKUK9-vc
  
  
• urn reel moni
  
  quote from a betting site advertisment that used to play in between games on stream
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ2gzGWic64
  
  Also LD narrated in a more recent one that thankfully doesn't air any more
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29EG8ouR2Q8
  
  
• Icefraud
  
  Corruption of "Icefrog", the almighty deity of DOTA 2 who balances the game. Typically used with sarcasm to point out how he's made something imbalanced.
  
  
• Bruno is Icefrog
  Both of them (implying they were different people to begin with lol) have glaring similar traits, like being software developers and enjoying mangoes
  
  Further explanations: https://github.com/GlassGhost/BrunoIsIceFrog
  
  Even Google admits it
  
  
  
  More here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/35zr2z/bruno_is_icefrog_meme_timeline_of_undisputed/

unsorted reddit things:

more player quotes: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1w9r3l/words_of_wisdom/

basic streamer gimmicks explained: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/3hgph3/here_we_have_a_list_of_dota_streamers_and_their/

more on twitch etiquette: http://twitchetiquette[.]esy[.]es/
(can't post the link properly because steam thinks it's evil)

Emote per Minute tracker: http://kappa.ws/

Basic guide to Twitch emotes in DotA: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/3gujjn/basic_guide_to_twitch_emotes_in_dota/
in case it gets removed or whatever here's the image:


Discover new grills to watch on Twitch.: http://twitchgrills.com/
I don't endorse this but the layout is great. Also don't forget to click


Kappa Everywhere - Global Twitch Emotes[chrome.google.com]: Twitch emotes on any website in your Google Chrome. Also available for Firefox here[addons.mozilla.org]



Warning: using Kappa everywhere will translate the text on this page into emotes so you won't be able to see the regular text.

ReChat for Twitch™
Adds chat messages from the past to your favorite Twitch VODs: https://www.rechat.org/

For other DOTA2 related funnies: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeOaLxrhAKAC7ETscvmSoJuEUjTJ6RD46

If there is a meme that is not covered above, feel free to request it in the comments.

If you don't want to ask, then Google it.