All about the Twitch Emote!

It must be said that images sometimes speak louder than words, which is why emoticons or emotes are very useful to express our feelings or expressions of the moment. On Twitch, emotes are widely used by viewers or streamers (people recording their performance online). You could thus express your anger, love, joy, denial or any other expression through Twitch emoticons. We will detail in this article how to access twitch emotes.

Global and custom emoticons

On Twitch, you will be able to access a category of emoticons called “global emoticons”, which are basic emoticons and obtained by logging into the platform for the first time. They are useful for the first conversations on the “chat” .

Custom emoticons are obtained when you subscribe to a streamer’s channel . By subscribing to their channel, you will have access to a number of personalized emoticons. They are also called subscriber emotes or twitch sub emotes , as they are obtained while subscribing to a partner channel.

A partner with a Twitch channel will be able to unlock more custom emoticons when the number of subscribers increases. As his popularity grows, so do the perks, and among them, the ability to share more emoticons representing his channel.

Steamers often get help from friends or followers (usually by doing contests) to choose the next emoticon to add to the list. You don’t need to know how to handle the brushes, you can always find someone to help you create twitch emotes.

Management of subscriber emoticons

Subscriber emotes, as described above, are emotes earned through subscribing to a Twitch channel. To be able to use them, you will only have to access your dashboard.

In the subscriber emoticons section, you will be able to access all the emoticons collected and classified by gender.

To be able to add emotes, you only have to click on the “add” button (+). This will automatically add them to your emoticon library.

Organization of emoticons

When your emoticons are added to your library, you can rearrange them, either by dragging them, or by entering their dedicated number.

When you change the location of certain emoticons, your dashboard will change the order of other emoticons. If you have a favorite emoticon, and you use it more than the others, instead of spending time looking for it among your list of emoticons, putting it in first place will be more useful to you and will save you money. time during your group chat conversations. On the other hand, the least used emoticons should be placed at the bottom of the list. The more you communicate with others, the more you will have an overview of which emotes will be most useful to you.

Change of location by drag and drop

To change the location of your emotes by swiping, you need to:

• Place your mouse over the desired emoticon;
• Click while holding down your mouse button on the emoticon;
• Drag your mouse to the desired location;
• Release your mouse pressure to save your move.

Change location by number (manual action)

There is a second method of moving emotes to your emote list, just:

• Click on the number affiliated with the positioning of an emote;
• Select the desired location;
• Click on the “enter” button to save your modifications;
• Repeat the same procedure for the other emoticons.

The emote library

Your library is your control panel for your emoticons, you can add, upload, delete, modify or move them . Your emotes are managed by your library.

Emotes pending approval will be displayed with a watch sign and your available emotes will be in clear.

For the twitch emote format to be accepted, it must be in .png format and with a pixel count between 112×112 px and 4096x4096px.

The more emote slots you have, the more you can add. The number of slots will depend on your status on the Twitch platform.

You will be able to manage their location, their deletion and their sorting thanks to the library and its many features.

animated emoticons

In addition to classic and frozen emoticons, you can create and add animated emoticons. They will either be in the form of a GIF or through the animated form of a classic emoticon .

Much more telling than the classic emoticons, their creation and addition will require specific slots for animated emotes.