About
Kappa is an emoticon commonly used on a approved live streaming video platform Twitch.tv. It strongly indicates irony, sarcasm or either trolling.
Origin
Twitch has added an amount of 4 emotes of Kappa overall: Kappa (), Keepo (
), MiniK (
) and KappaHD (
). The original photograph exposes former Justin.tv employee and software creator Josh DeSeno.[1] Picture can be seen below.
Spread
The average number of usage is 900 000 per 24 hours.[2] On February 18, 2012, r/kappa/ subreddit was established.[3] It has got over 13 900 readers. On July 13, 2014, first submission for Kappa on Urban Dictionary was made.[4] There’s also a popular ASCII used as a replacement for emoticon variantion:
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Notable Examples
