Well see here little buddy, back in the 1980s you'd get this little cardboard circle with a variety of characters on it, and there was this whole game around building a tower and knocking these circles off the tower, but no one played the game. Hell most people refuse to believe a game with them existed. They were going to be the next big collectible before Pokemon brought back trading cards and beanie babies took over for anyone that didn't like cards.

Some pogs were also metal. For some reason.

Years later a weird asian man made a face and coincidentally got pog brought in the the common vernacular, but that's a different pog entirely, a pretender to the throne. Every day I lament that that asian man made that silly face, if only because it has obscured to the true nature of the pog.