How Do You Add Emotes on Twitch?
Twitch has some great emotes you can use in chat all over the platform, but creators are also able to add their own emotes. Emotes are added to Twitch through the Creator Dashboard, and they’re available to both Twitch Affiliates and Partners. If you just have a basic Twitch account, then you’ll need to level up to Affiliate or Partner status before you can add emotes. If your account is enabled to add emotes on Twitch, here’s how to do it:
When Can You Add Emotes on Twitch?
You get the ability to add emotes on Twitch as soon as you are accepted into the Affiliate program. Once you have Affiliate status, you can upload a limited number of emotes for tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 subscribers. Affiliates also gain the ability to add bit tier emotes, but only after a viewer cheers a specific quantity of bits. When you hit Partner status, you gain the ability to add emote modifiers to tier 2 and tier 3 emotes. You also get the ability to add cheermotes. Partners typically have the ability to add a lot more emotes than Affiliates as well, because Twitch increases the number of emotes you’re allowed to add over time as you hit milestones.
Can You Add Twitch Emotes Without Being an Affiliate or Partner?
The only way to add emotes to Twitch is to be an Affiliate or Partner. As a viewer, subscribing to your favorite streamers gets you access to their emotes, which you can use in their chat and the chats of other streamers. You also get access to a special set of emotes if you subscribe to Twitch Turbo. The other way to gain access to new emotes on Twitch is to use the Better Twitch TV browser plugin. If you’ve ever seen Twitch users type strange things like catJAM, PepeHands, or OMEGALUL in chat, those messages are being sent by users of the BTTV plugin. For example, instead of seeing catJAM in chat, users of the BTTV plugin see an animated emote of a cat. Here’s how to access BTTV emotes:
