Citations:Kappa

English citations of Kappa

Symbol

• 2015 October 21, David Goldenberg, “How Kappa Became The Face Of Twitch”, in FiveThirtyEight‎^[1]:

  I was studying Josh DeSeno’s face while he tried to explain what makes it so important. I certainly wasn’t able to tell by looking at him Kappa

• 2017, Colin Ford, Dan Gardner, Leah Elaine Horgan, Calvin Liu, a. m. tsaasan, Bonnie Nardi, Jordan Rickman, “Chat Speed OP PogChamp: Practices of Coherence in Massive Twitch Chat”, in CHI'17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems‎^[2], page 860:

  02:06:43 UncensoredA: actually u will see that trump is way worse
  02:07:09 Iresfield: no Trump will the best Kappa

• 2016, Eric Chow, “Crowd Culture & Community Interaction on Twitch.tv”, in University of Vaasa‎^[3], page 66:

  Yellowtm: 322
  Ravorse: 322
  Exooodus: Kappa 123
  Thejollyviking: 322

• 2017 March 10, Apisit Chatarsa, “The sexualization of women on Twitch”, in Medium‎^[4]:

  Anefodiasmenos: ill come there to Teach you some wikipidia Kappa

• 2017 April 4, Jose Vilches, “Twitch launches its own game store to take on Steam”, in TechSpot‎^[5]:

  BrandonFoooooo: not laggy at all Kappa

• 2015, Julia William Becker, “Twitch & the Social 2.0”, in UAL London College of Communications‎^[6], page 21:

  F****a: Froggen is benched from today's game Kappa

See also

• 7.3 million additional attestations of the Kappa symbol, logged from the Twitch Plays Pokémon stream

Interjection

• 2015, Jędrzej Olejniczak, “A linguistic study of language variety used on twitch. tv: desriptive and corpus-based approaches.”, in Redefining Community in Intercultural Context‎^[7], page 332:

  The community members of a given broadcast create short, nonsensical and deliberately ungrammatical stories which they later attempt to circulate. Those stories will normally end with "please do not copy-pasta Kappa" (which is a false request not to "copy paste", i.e. reproduce them). The successful ones are very quickly adopted: other users copy them and send them as their own messages.

• 2017, A. J. Pellicone, “Performing play: Cultural production on twitch.tv”, in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global‎^[8], page 12:

  The chat is also responding, giving her encouragement or lightly poking fun at her when she dies. A friend from high school who goes to a different college says, "Classic Jen skill right there, Kappa [Kappa is a universal twitch emoji which is used to represent sarcasm]," and she reads Andrew's comment aloud back to chat and light-heartedly responds with, "Shut up Andrew, I've seen you play shooters before."

• 2019, “Why Gaming Needs MADMONQ”, in Analys‎^[9], page 29:

  Twitch is love, Twitch is life. Kappa

Not durably archived

• 2018 July 8, Matt Zagursky, Twitter‎^[10]:

  My mom is complaining that I'm not tweeting enough. Does this count? #Kappa

• 2012 August 28, Lukáš Mojžíš, “First topic Kappa”, in twitch-api‎^[11] (Usenet):

  Just wanted the group to not be empty Kappa

Verb

• 2018 February 9, Nathan Grayson, Kotaku‎^[12]:

  As the stream went on, Forsen reined in his initial reaction, saying that he believes he’s made a good effort to quell his community when it’s gotten out of hand. His chat didn’t entirely agree, with some posting the kappa emote, which implies irony. “I don’t know why you’re kappa-ing,” Forsen said.

Noun or Proper noun (name of the symbol)

• 2017, Max Wirestone, The Astonishing Mistakes of Dahlia Moss‎^[13]:

  DON'T DO IT!!! said Twitch chat, with all caps and exclamation points and Kappas, which are these screaming disembodied heads that are hard to explain because they don't make a lot of sense out of context.

• 2017, Roland Li, Good Luck Have Fun: The Rise of eSports, →ISBN:

  Kappa has become shorthand for trolling and sarcasm.

  (this one could be considered a mention)
• 2017, Ted Kwartler, Text Mining in Practice with R, →ISBN, page 108:

  In contrast, Figure 4.11 is a “kappa” emoji used in chat transcripts on gaming sites like www.twitch.com to also convey sarcasm. According to knowyourmeme.com/memes/kappa, the kappa emoticon is used 900,000 times per day on Twitch and is a likeness of an early employee that created the chat client. The kappa emoji popularity has been sustained on the platform because sarcasm is expressed often in the gaming community.

• 2017 December 15, Adam Starkey, “The man behind the emoticon: Josh 'Kappa' DeSeno on becoming Twitch's biggest icon”, in Metro:

  The particular photo in question is the Kappa emote (Twitch’s version of emoticon), an icon used by players on the streaming platform to express sarcasm or irony, which is now used over one million times everyday.

• 2019 February 8, Nathan Grayson, “Kid-Friendly Twitch Streams Aim To Be The New Saturday Morning Cartoons”, in Kotaku Australia:

  Players first voted to beam Twitch’s popular “Kappa” emote to the rocks, but while it made for a funny scene, the rocks only grew grouchier and more dedicated to their set-in-stone goal of not moving as a result.