

If you do find that you and your chat enjoying the new emotes and you want to step it up, I recommend first getting FFZ's paid version. You really only need to consider the "paid versions" once you feel that your chat becomes active enough to make it worth it. It will serve viewers just fine in most cases. If you are starting out or have a small channel, you can just focus on the "free versions" of these extensions. After adding emotes to your channel, anyone who comes into your channel and also has that respective extension installed will be able to use and see the emotes you chose. You can go to each of the extensions' websites and connect your Twitch account. With the recent rise in new streamers and viewers, I felt the need to make this mini-guide to bring everyone up to speed on what makes the site fun for many Twitch veterans.Īs a streamer, you are in charge of adding BTTV, FFZ, and 7TV emotes to your channel. It's allowing people to be more creative not only with the design of emotes, but also how people use the emotes in chats in different situations.įor me, when I enter a channel with little to no support of BTTV, FFZ, or 7TV emotes, I feel like half of the Twitch experience is missing. I'd even argue that the emotes that appear with these extensions are an important part of Twitch culture.īTTV has been the major player for Twitch emotes for years, but recently 7TV has begun to pick up popularity thanks to support for both wide and zero-width emotes. They will allow you to see " Pepega", " KEKW", " OMEGALUL", and " POGGERS" as emotes instead of words. The emotes from the extensions work alongside the emotes already built into Twitch like "LUL" and "PogChamp". However, probably the biggest reason for many people to use these extensions are for the emotes. I suggest checking out both and see which one you like the best. I personally use BTTV, but each have slight differences in options. BTTV and FFZ both have options that allow you to customize Twitch to your personal liking. If you use Twitch on your computer often either as a streamer or a viewer, this alone should be a reason to add it to your browser. Turning off auto-play of front page videos Pin messages with mentions to the top of your chat For example, they let you do things like: Some of these extensions allow you to customize Twitch to your liking. The number of users are taken from each of their pages on the Chrome Extensions Web Store: Twitch has 3 major browser extensions/add-ons. If you've seen people type out "Pepega", "KEKW", "OMEGALUL", and "POGGERS" in chat but all you see are words, chances are they are using a Twitch extension.
