Pretty soon, Twitch users will no longer be able to express their sadness with the BibleThump emote. According to Twitch, on September 30th, its rights to display the popular crying pink blob will expire after over a decade of being one of the foundational Twitch emotes along with Kappa, FrankerZ, and Pogchamp.
The BibleThump emote comes from The Binding of Isaac, a 2011 roguelike created by Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl. In the game, you play as Isaac who must make his way through procedurally generated dungeons fighting demons and monsters in order to escape his fanatical, homicidal mother. The game, based on the biblical tale of the same name, frequently features Isaac curled up in a ball sobbing as tears stream down his fleshy pink face, and thus the emote was born. BibleThump is frequently used as a way to express sadness or frustration, and it’s been a global Twitch emote since 2013.
That decadelong run is apparently coming to an end as Twitch says its rights to the image expire in a couple of days. However, McMillen says might not have to end this way.
“I’m not in control of the new Twitch policies so it’s really up to them.”