It’s the end of an era. The rights to one of Twitch’s most iconic and beloved emotes, Bible Thump, will expire on Sept. 30, despite the creator’s willingness to come to an amicable solution with Twitch to keep it on the streaming platform.

In a perplexing post from Twitch on X (formerly Twitter) on Sept. 25, the streaming platform announced the “sad news” that the “rights to our beloved emote expire” on Sept. 30, after being one of the most popular “crying face” and “sadness” emotes for the past 11 years. But fans aren’t buying Twitch’s sad facade and want to know why the platform doesn’t “simply renew the rights then” or “work with Edmund McMillen,” the creator of the Bible Thump emote, to come up with a solution.