This is not necessarily true. Both Pepp and Peepo are based on popular Twitch emotes. I’ve used those low res emotes as templates for all of the packs (except commissioned work which is mostly my original creation).

“Pepp” didn’t have a name before I made the pack. All the emotes have names (as can be seen on my channel — those names are original and not made up by me), but the character itself wasn’t named before I did