About
“Kreygasm” is an emoticon featuring a portrait of Twitch streamer Kreyg,[8] which is often used in chats on the video streaming service to indicate an intense feeling of elation or pleasure.
Origin
The exact origin of “kreygasm” is unknown. According to a Twitter exchange with Twitch employee Hassan Bokhari[2] held in July 2014, Kreyg submitted the original kreygasm photo to the video streaming service several years prior (shown below).
On September 3rd, 2011, a thread about Twitch emoticons was updated with several new faces that had been added, which included the kreygasm face.[6]
Spread
On July 10th, 2013, a Facebook[5] page titled “Kreygasm” was launched. On August 15th, a document containing an ASCII art version of the kreygasm face was uploaded to Pastebin[3] (shown below).[3] In October, the ASCII was highlighted on the Twitch ASCII blog.[4]
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On August 8th, 2014, the tech news blog Mashable[7] mentioned the kreygasm face in an article about Twitch chat emoticons. On October 5th, YouTuber Tomasla uploaded a video titled “SingSing – Kreygasm,” featuring footage from the game Defense of the Ancients 2 in which the video game streamer Sing Sing moans during after performing a winning move (shown below). On October 9th, Urban Dictionary[1] user Rawrchi submitted an entry for “kreygasm,” defining it as an emoticon used to “show intense emotion similar to an orgasm.”
Search Interest
External References
[1]Urban Dictionary – kreygasm
[2]Twitter – Hassan Bokhari
[3]Pastebin – Kreygasm ASCII Twitch TV
[4]Blogspot – Twitch ASCII
[6]Twitch – Twitch Emotes
[7]Mashable – Twitch Emoticons