> I think you are overestimating how much of the popularity came from the FGC.
I'm really not. PogChamp is Gootecks, host of Cross-Counter and FG player. The meme is based on an ad they did for MadCatz Fight Sticks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkBDZ8Davvg
"BibleThump" started out as meme involving an incident with streamer Spooky and FG player Wolfkrone.
http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7921h1cU41qcriw6o1_1280.p...
BibleThump resembled Wolfkrone in that image so literally thousands of viewers started spamming it with the text "spooby pls" on Spooky's chat whenever something went wrong, or the stream was going to end.
That is why you'll often see people type "<topic> pls biblethump", eg.