Copium
what it means
A blend of "cope" and "opium", usually paired with a green gas-mask emote. It softens the accusation in "cope" into something more affectionate.
An imaginary drug you inhale to cope with a loss — a joke about self-delusion.
the origin story
A 2016 image of a rapper wearing a gas mask, adapted into a Twitch emote that spread through gaming and esports chat.
The Twitch emote made it enormously visible during esports broadcasts, where losing fanbases get spammed with it in chat. "Hopium" followed as the optimistic counterpart — inhaling hope rather than denial.
in the wild
They can still come back from this.
Pure copium.
I read the sequel is definitely happening.
That's hopium at best.
how to use it
- Gaming and esports chat
- Joking about a friend's unrealistic optimism
- Discussing fandom denial
- About genuine coping with hardship
- Where the drug reference would be inappropriate
- Professionally
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