Bit badges go from 1 cent, to a dollar, to 10 dollars, to 50, to 100. Shouldnt there be a 5 dollar bit badge? and maybe a 25? the badges are insanely steep. I'm an affiliate and I can set literally 28 badges, and yet it costs $10 worth of bits to get the third one. I can set 28 badges and yet people wont see any past the first two. As an affiliate, does twitch ever realistically expect someone to donate 5,000,000 bits? Nobody donates bits past the 100 mark to get the second badge. Theres just no bridge between 1 dollar and 10 - if someone wanted to put $10 into the channel, they could buy a sub and gift one instead.

Gift subs seem to be a far superior way to anything else to support a channel (apart from direct donations) to support the community overall. I just feel like its a complete waste that I can set 28 bit badges and I'm only ever going to see the first two.

Point is, if there were bit badges at $5 and also $25, maybe setting the bit badges and bit reward emotes would actually incentivize people to reach a goal.

Also why not have bit emotes for the lower badges? Especially when you can assign up to 5 emotes just for someone following you, I don't see any reason why there cant be an emote slot for bit badges lower than $10. Heaps of members have either the first two badges or nothing at all, and it just seems liek a waste of a feature to be able to set 26 badges that nobody will ever reach a number that high.