peepoShy

peepoShy is used to express feelings of shyness, embarrassment, awkwardness, or bashfulness in Twitch chat. It conveys a cute, innocent sense of being flustered or timid. The emote is often used when someone says something sweet, complimentary, or when chat wants to express wholesomeness. It can also be used ironically to react to awkward moments or when feeling secondhand embarrassment from something happening on stream.

peepoShy is a variant of the Pepe the Frog meme family, specifically part of the "peepo" series of emotes. It originated around 2017-2018 as part of the broader peepo emote collection on Discord and Twitch. The emote depicts a shy, blushing version of the peepo character (a cuter, more innocent version of Pepe) with pink cheeks, large innocent eyes, and hands covering the lower part of the face while peeking over something (typically depicted in blue). This particular variant became popular on platforms like BetterTTV, FrankerFaceZ, and 7TV, spreading across various Twitch channels as streamers and viewers added it to their channel emote collections.

Common situations where peepoShy appears include: when a streamer receives a compliment or donation with a sweet message; during wholesome or heartwarming moments on stream; when chat wants to express collective embarrassment or awkwardness; in response to flirtatious or romantic content; when someone in chat or on stream says something that makes others feel shy or flustered; during cute interactions between the streamer and chat; or ironically during cringe moments to express secondhand embarrassment in a lighthearted way.