{"id":982495,"date":"2026-01-06T17:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iB8X6hhsL63JHwJ6Sjoj2S"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:45:18","slug":"twitch-is-dropping-the-popular-biblethump-emote-because-the-license-is-expiring-even-though-creator-edmund-mcmillen-says-hes-100-fine-with-them-renewing-the-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/twitch-is-dropping-the-popular-biblethump-emote-because-the-license-is-expiring-even-though-creator-edmund-mcmillen-says-hes-100-fine-with-them-renewing-the-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitch is dropping the popular BibleThump emote because the license is expiring, even though creator Edmund McMillen says he&#8217;s &#8216;100% fine with them renewing the rights&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The popular Twitch emote BibleThump is going away at the end of September, and it doesn&apos;t make a lot of sense. Twitch said in an announcement (via <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/twitch-biblethump-binding-isaac-emote-edmund-mcmillen-1851658915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kotaku<\/a>) that the emote is being dropped because of expiring licenses, but rightsholder Edmund McMillen says he&apos;d be happy to renew the license, but it&apos;s not up to him.<\/p>\n<p>BibleThump was popular enough to earn a place in our 2020 rundown of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/twitch-emotes-meanings\/\">Twitch emote meanings<\/a>, a handy guide for anyone baffled by the flood of weird faces floating across their screens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roguelike fans will recognize this emote from The Binding of Isaac,&#8221; we helpfully explained. &#8220;That is baby Isaac right there, with tears streaming down his face. Stream viewers bust out BibleThump when a profoundly sad, or profoundly precious incident crosses through the stream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Popular though it may be, it won&apos;t be around for much longer. &#8220;The end of the BibleThump Era (2013-2024) is nigh!&#8221; Twitch wrote on X. &#8220;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 &#8211; we\u2019re going to need a new emote to spam these feelings\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The end of the BibleThump Era (2013-2024) is nigh! On 9\/30, the rights to our beloved emote expire. \ud83d\ude2d While this is sad news, we know that all emotes go to heaven. SPEAKING OF SAD &#8211; we\u2019re going to need a new emote to spam these feelings\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitch\/status\/1839046682325168511\">September 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, that happens\u2014content disappearing because of expiring licences is nothing new in the world of videogames. But as the attached community note indicates, the situation took a weird twist when Edmund McMillen, the creator of The Binding of Isaac, said he was open to extending the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For those wondering what happened with the Bible thump emote, I&apos;m 100% fine with coming up with a good solution to keep or modify the emote but I&apos;m not in control of the new Twitch policies so it&apos;s really up to them,&#8221; McMillen <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/edmundmcmillen\/status\/1839059799755075608?t=xJYxlIIp5egTJE8gFfISDw&#038;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a>. He confirmed in separate posts that he still <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/edmundmcmillen\/status\/1839063755545784652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">owns the rights<\/a> to the emote, and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/edmundmcmillen\/status\/1839062765006442895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reiterated<\/a> that he &#8220;would be 100% fine with them renewing the rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, why isn&apos;t that happening? Some on X suggested, presumably ironically, that Twitch can&apos;t afford a new deal: Twitch is owned by Amazon, one of the biggest and most valuable companies in the world, but has reportedly <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/streaming\/twitch-employees-are-worried-the-service-could-become-a-zombie-brand-as-a-potential-third-round-of-layoffs-looms-but-luckily-ceo-dan-clancy-only-eats-medium-sized-dinners-during-international-trips-to-meet-streamers\/\">struggled to turn a profit<\/a>. That doesn&apos;t strike me as likely. I don&apos;t know how much a license for a single emote based on an old indie game would cost, but I can&apos;t imagine it would be a very big slice of Twitch&apos;s revenues. Others have speculated that Twitch wants to shift to emotes made in-house that it owns outright, which could be what McMillen was alluding to in his reference to &#8220;new Twitch policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, there&apos;s been no sign that a new deal might be made. It&apos;s possible that BibleThump could live on elsewhere, though. In response to Twitch&apos;s message about the expiring license, streaming platform Kick, the place that pays guys like <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/xqc-scores-unbelievable-dollar100-million-deal-to-start-streaming-on-kick\/\">xQc<\/a> and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/after-nickmercs-reveals-gambling-is-part-of-his-new-contract-xqc-admits-everybody-knows-i-am-paid-to-gamble-on-stream\/\">Nickmercs<\/a> mountains of money to do gambling streams and recently hosted notorious former Twitch streamer (he was banned for life in 2023 for &#8220;hateful conduct) <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/banned-twitch-streamer-adin-ross-gets-donald-trump-on-a-kick-stream-gifts-him-a-rolex-then-they-sit-together-in-a-trumped-out-cybertruck-listening-to-elvis-cant-help-falling-in-love\/\">Adin Ross<\/a> in a bizarre, baffling stream with Donald Trump, posted an image of the emote and a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KickStreaming\/status\/1839163286207541284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message<\/a> to McMillen: &#8220;We cooking?&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1055px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:122.09%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Wsgn5pJSb49mvTCSDAyMVn\" name=\"kick.png\" alt=\"We cooking?\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/twitch-is-dropping-the-popular-biblethump-emote-because-the-license-is-expiring-even-though-creator-edmund-mcmillen-says-hes-100-fine-with-them-renewing-the-rights.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1055\" height=\"1288\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Kick)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The reaction to Kick&apos;s tweet was almost universally negative, with multiple respondents asking McMillen not to take the deal. McMillen himself hasn&apos;t indicated whether or not he might be interested in a deal, but he did repost Kick&apos;s message. Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/streaming\/twitch-is-dropping-the-popular-biblethump-emote-because-the-license-is-expiring-even-though-creator-edmund-mcmillen-says-hes-100-fine-with-them-renewing-the-rights\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Twitch emote BibleThump is going away at the end of September, and it doesn&apos;t make a lot of sense. Twitch said in an announcement (via Kotaku) that the emote is being dropped because of expiring licenses, but rightsholder Edmund McMillen says he&apos;d be happy to renew the license, but it&apos;s not up to him. BibleThump was popular enough to earn a place in our 2020 rundown of Twitch emote meanings, a handy guide for anyone baffled by the flood of weird faces floating across their screens.\u00a0 &#8220;Roguelike fans will recognize this emote from The Binding of Isaac,&#8221; we helpfully explained. &#8220;That is baby Isaac right there, with tears streaming down his face. Stream viewers bust out BibleThump when a profoundly sad, or profoundly&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/twitch-is-dropping-the-popular-biblethump-emote-because-the-license-is-expiring-even-though-creator-edmund-mcmillen-says-hes-100-fine-with-them-renewing-the-rights\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":982496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[66,950],"class_list":["post-982495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-hardware","tag-streaming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Twitch is dropping the popular BibleThump emote because the license is expiring, even though creator Edmund McMillen says he&#039;s &#039;100% fine with them renewing the rights&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The popular Twitch emote BibleThump is going away at the end of September, and it doesn&amp;apos;t make a lot of sense. 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