Twitch emotes are small emoji-like icons that you can use in any Twitch streamer’s chat room. Twitch streamers with enough viewers can upload their custom emotes for subscribers to use. If you download the third-party extension BetterTTV, you can access dozens of new Twitch emotes for free. In this article, you’ll learn about some famous Twitch emotes.
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Twitch emotes, explained:
Twitch emotes are tiny pictures that, just like emoji, each have their meaning and connotation. And although some have an obvious use, most of them are pretty obscure. You can send an emote on Twitch to quickly convey to a streamer and fellow chatters your emotional reaction or opinion; whatever your mood, there’s probably a suitable emote.
A few dozen emotes are available to everyone on the site; these are called “global” emotes. Once a channel gains a certain amount of subscribers, they gain the ability to add their exclusive emotes that only subscribers can use.
Some emote are only available to users who have Amazon Prime. And others require you to install an extension called BetterTTV.
Using emotes:
To send an emote, simply type the name of the emote. For instance, to send the Kappa to emote, you’d type out “Kappa” and hit send. You can also, type a colon, start writing the name of your emote and then selecting the emote from a drop-down list that will appear as you type.
Failing that, you can click the smiley face icon in the chatbox to get a list of every available emotes. Just click one to add it to your chat message.
Most popular twitch emotes:
To help you get started, there’re 120 emotes that are free to use in addition to any custom emotes you create in the future. The most widely used twitch emotes are Kappa, pausechamp , Jebaited, 4head, TriHard, and BabyRage. Pause champ meaning is emote for building up an exciting moment or to create suspense.
Some of the most popular emotes require you to use a browser extension called Better TwitchTV, or just BetterTTV for short.
How to get more Twitch emotes with BetterTTV?
To use BetterTTV and get access to more Twitch emotes, you need to download the BetterTTV extension for your web browser, Chrome. Once you’ve downloaded it:
- Head to any Twitch chat and select the “Chat Settings” gear icon in the bottom-right corner, by the stream chat window.
- Select “BetterTTV Settings” from the Chat Settings menu.
- In the BetterTTV settings, make sure the “BetterTTV Emote Menu,” “BetterTTV Emotes,” and “BetterTTV GIF Emotes,” and “FrankerFaceZ Emotes” are all set to “On.”
You’ll now be able to use new BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ “Global” emotes on every channel. Every Twitch streamer can also add up to 15 “Channel” emotes that anyone with BetterTTV can use in their chat.
How to make your own Twitch emotes?
Along with global and BetterTTV emotes, every Twitch channel can submit its own custom emotes for subscribers to use. They’re one of the unique ways that viewers can show their love for the channel.
However, to upload custom emotes; your Twitch channel needs to reach “partner” or “affiliate” status. Once there, you can take advantage of the tools provided in the Twitch Creator Dashboard to upload unique emotes.
Twitch affiliates can have one emote for all subscribers, and two emotes each for $9.99 and $24.99 tier subscribers.
Twitch partners start with six emote slots, but that number can increase up to 60 as they earn more subscribers. Once you’ve unlocked an emote slot, you get to keep it forever, even if you lose subscribers.
Conclusion:
A Twitch emote is a smart way that you can use to build a relationship with your streamers and ultimately grow your brand. They can make it less challenging to become more popular and they can take on the form of a gift that your viewers will love. By sharing custom emotes with your viewers, they will be more inclined to support your channel and react to what is going on during your stream.
FAQs
How long does twitch take to approve emotes?
While Twitch offers to emote options to affiliates and partners, only partners in good standing will have their emotes automatically approved. All emotes for partners and affiliates not in good standing will go through Twitch’s manual review process. Twitch doesn’t mention how long the review process takes.
What is Kappa emote?
Kappa is the name of emote used in chats on the streaming video platform Twitch.
