Sadge: disappointment, or a running joke
Sadge covers everything from a real disappointment to a running joke. How to tell which one you are looking at before you build a clip around the burst.
What Sadge is
Sadge is a downcast Pepe and the most common disappointment token in modern Twitch chats. It displaced FeelsBadMan almost everywhere, and in doing so it lost some of the older token's sincerity: it is used ironically at least as often as it is meant.
What chat is doing when it fires
Because it carries both registers, the burst alone does not tell you which one is happening. A chat that is genuinely deflated and a chat that is ribbing someone for missing an easy shot produce spikes that look much the same in a replay.
Before you cut the clip
The tie-breaker is the audio. If the person streaming sounds deflated too, the burst is sincere and the clip is a reaction; if they are laughing, it is a bit, and that is a different edit with a different caption on it.
How Reelium reads it
- A message carrying Sadge is counted as a emotional reaction.
- Only the emote counts. Typing "sadge" as plain text is not read as emotional on its own.
- A message that also carries laughter or hype or surprise is counted as that instead. Each message counts once.
- A window is read on its strongest single category rather than the sum of all four, and a burst from one account is discounted against the same burst from many people.
FAQ
What does Sadge mean?
It means chat is disappointed, either sympathetically or mockingly. It is the most common way a modern Twitch chat marks a bad outcome.
Is Sadge always sincere?
No, and that is the main thing to know about it. A large share of its use is playful, so a burst on its own does not establish that anything sad actually happened.
Other emotional reactions chat uses
- FeelsBadMan — FeelsBadMan: the older, more literal Sadge
- PepeHands — PepeHands: chat's rarest and heaviest reaction
- Madge — Madge: chat marking a rant, not a moment