The story
Blend of dog + October 7th, from the fact that the incident took place on October 7th, 2025. The name also references the October 7 attacks, which occurred two years earlier in 2023.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dogtober 7th
Today it means: Synonym of Collargate (“a 2025 controversy within the Twitch community involving Turkish American streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker, who was accused of using a shock collar on his dog Kaya”) Full definition →