Kick Seeks Rights to Popular BibleThump Emote Following Twitch’s Removal Announcement

Kick has shown interest in acquiring the rights to Twitch’s iconic BibleThump emote after the Amazon-owned platform announced its impending removal.

On September 25, 2024, Twitch disclosed that the BibleThump emote would be taken down at the end of the month due to the expiration of its usage rights.

“The end of the BibleThump Era (2013-2024) is nigh! On 9/30, the rights to our beloved emote expire. 😭 While this is sad news, we know that all emotes go to heaven. SPEAKING OF SAD – we’re going to need a new emote to spam these feelings,” they stated.

The end of the BibleThump Era (2013-2024) is nigh! On 9/30, the rights to our beloved emote expire. 😭 While this is sad news, we know that all emotes go to heaven. SPEAKING OF SAD – we’re going to need a new emote to spam these feelings…

— Twitch (@Twitch) September 25, 2024

Immediately, fans took to the comments to grieve the loss of this beloved emote, which originates from the popular 2011 indie game Binding of Isaac.

Isaac’s creator, Edmund McMillen, also shared his perspective, expressing interest in finding a “solution” to keep the emote available on Twitch.

“For those wondering what happened with the BibleThump emote, I’m 100% fine with coming up with a good solution to keep or modify the emote, but I’m not in control of the new Twitch policies so it’s really up to them,” he commented.

For those wondering what happened with the BibleThump emote, I’m 100% fine with coming up with a good solution to keep or modify the emote but I’m not in control of the new Twitch policies so it’s really up to them.

— 🜏 Edmund McMillen 🜏 (@edmundmcmillen) September 25, 2024

While Twitch will retire the emote before October, the Stake-owned streaming platform Kick reached out to McMillen, hinting their interest in acquiring it.

“We cooking?” they tweeted. McMillen retweeted this message soon after.

@edmundmcmillen we cooking? pic.twitter.com/hDACqoixr3

— Kick.com (@KickStreaming) September 26, 2024

Kick’s post was met with a wave of comments from fans expressing their desire for McMillen not to partner with the platform, and he has yet to respond to these comments.

It remains to be seen whether BibleThump will be revived as an emote on either platform or through a third-party emote service like 7tv.

This isn’t the only recent change from Twitch, which also announced on September 20 that they would begin informing streamers about the reasons for their bans by including clips of the violating content in their notification emails.

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