It would be awesome if Twitch allowed artists who design emotes for partnered streamers use them for free!

A suggestion is for Twitch to create the option for partnered streamers to specify which artist(s) created their emotes when they upload them which would then allow the artist to use those emotes on Twitch.

Benefits to this is that it would provide more exposure to both the streamer and the artist. The artist would get more promotion through sharing their created emotes on Twitch. Fans of the artist who enjoy their art style would be able to see which emotes the artist has created and which stream they're from. As a result, this would bring more exposure to the streamer, leading to more subs!

I feel that Twitch artists, though they contribute so much to the streamer communities, often receive little recognition for their hard work since they work behind-the-scenes. It'd be nice if Twitch implemented this feature to show their support for their artists!

Being forced to delete an emote and reupload it for approval is unnecessary if we just want to change its name. For example, naming an emote "prefixLul" and later wanting it to be "prefixLUL" means deleting the emote and going a week or two without it while you wait for the exact same thing to be reapproved. The benefits of having a name changing option would be:

A) The new name can enter the approval queue while the emote is still usable under its old name.

B) Approving a name, rather than an emote and a name, is half as much work for those in charge of the approval process.

Please allow us to opt-out of events that gift emotes when another user takes an action. Many of the recent events (e.g. HyperScape, K-Pop, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc.) have emotes that I don't want or find offensive, but I have no choice on whether they're added to my emote list when another user subs or cheers.

I suggest a tick box on the pop-up that appears over a stream to let you know about a new event that lets you choose to not receive any of the event's emotes. Alternatively or in addition, a section of the settings that has options for the current event. This section should also include a way to hide or permanently remove emotes from your emote list by or within an event category (e.g. HyperScapeEmotes, StreamWithPride, etc.) or individual emotes within the Unlocked and Global categories. Emotes that are removed or hidden should not be accessible by auto-complete. Removal of emotes should also allow simple feedback on the reason--offensive, unwanted, etc.

While this suggestion isn't intended to just let people cull their emote list to a reasonable size, it would also function for that purpose. Twitch may also be able to collect data on which emotes are found offensive or unwanted by a significant portion of their userbase, and perhaps make better decisions on future emotes as well as remove emotes that generate too much negative feedback.

Just as it says in the title, I think creators would love to have the option to take away Tier 2 and 3 subs to add two more emotes to Tier 1 subs. In my case, I’ve maybe had someone tier 2/3 to me 2-3 times each over the course of my 3 years of being an Affiliate. It’s only usually just once out of the blue, never continuous.

For my stream, I would rather add two more emotes to my first tier, totaling it to a maximum of 7 instead of 5 (for Affiliates) than have a tier 2 and tier 3 subscription option that no one is going to pay for. I want to incorporate my emotes into my community as much as I can, and with collapsing tier 2 and 3 to get two more emotes for tier 1, it would really help.

I think this would be easy to incorporate; it would just be within your emote options, a switch you can click that disables tier 2 and tier 3 subs and adds two more slots to tier 1. For those people who are subbed to a streamer at tier 2 or tier 3, they would automatically roll over to tier 1 the next month, keeping all of their emotes, just paying the tier 1 price.

Currently, lots of streamers use so-called "event emotes" for Christmas, Easter and other festivities.
Currently to use such emotes an affiliate needs to re-submit all his emotes he wants using, for example, the Christmas skin of the emote, he has to resubmit his emote, wait for it to get approved and then after Christmas the same thing.
My idea is to let streamers have a 2nd set of emotes slots that can get approved but are not visible to anybody.
When the event comes they can simply switch-in the event set which is already approved and after the event, they can switch back to the normal emotes.
This would obviously need more memory in the emote database but make the emote approval process faster and not put as much burden on it before and after festivities.

When hovering over an emote in chat I would love to see listed information for the artist it was created by and their social media/ contact info.
For that info to be easily clicked on to open new tabs to their Twitch channel and to their art social media/ contact info.

Also showing the emote at the largest size to see the emote's art more clearly, the emote's name, and the streamer's channel that it is uploaded to with that being clickable opening a new tab there.

I feel that emotes are a large part of Twitch and it's difficult to find the artists that put in the work making them, so they deserve more credit and promotion.

We've been using external extensions like BTTV for years for the option to have community shared emotes and animated gif emotes in chat that have become a big part of Twitch's culture with emotes like with SourPls.
It would be great to have some global animated gif emotes and to be able to add the option to upload animated gifs for sub emotes for channels to be able to have all animated gif emotes if they wanted.

So right now with the Emote system, there's a couple of problems that are rising from time to time :

1. To change an emote from a tier into another tier (say, Tier 2 into Tier 1 after unlocking the slot), you pretty much have to wait for the approval to pass through, then have the emote at the ready. This can take between a week and a month (absolutely not first-hand experience ahem).




2. Currently, for a smaller streamer, between 2/3rds to 2/7ths of their emotes are locked behind an impossibly large wall : the tier wall. 2nd and 3rd tier emotes are unfortunately not enough value to warrant a purchase of those Tier 2s and Tier 3s as a smaller streamer. (And no, the current tier system was NOT fixed with the flairs and other nerfs & changes, but that is another story.)




3. Giving more emotes to an affiliate would further decrease the difference between a partner and affiliate. This is a big no when it comes to "adding" emotes to smaller channels.

So here's why modulable tiers come into play.

Imagine being able to choose the emote tiers you want for your emote straight away. You submit your emote, you select a tier, you submit it. After it's approved, if you want to switch it, you select the tier, and choose "Tier 1", "Tier 2" or "Tier 3" in a small menu, not limited to any number!

So what would this entail?

1. Removing the Tier limitation for smaller streamers, letting have access to the 3 Tier 1 sub emotes straight away if they wished so, or have their emotes in the Tier 2 to 3 categories only! This would let them have more "value" in the tiers they wish to go for!




2. Removing the work to "reapprove" the same emote in tiers, removing the need to work on approving already existing emotes for newer streamers/affiliates even more than the current system we have! (Which was a great step in the right direction, don't get me wrong <3)




3. Not increasing the gap between Affiliates and Partners, but giving more control to the both of them. Rather than have affiliates hold "more" emotes, decreasing the value of Partner as a whole, the two can have their tiers customized to their will. If a partner wants to have all 20 emotes as Tier 3, they're able to do so. If they want to have all of them Tier 1, they can do so as well. They will be able to have the tier emotes be whatever they need to on the click of a button.

Hopefully this gets at least some eyes onto it, because this could benefit literally everyone.

Viewers could have more emotes to choose from in their Tier 1 subs for smaller streamers, or even more on Tier 2 and 3, which could get a little more value into them than the measly ones we currently have.

Affiliates and Partners, for the reasons aforementioned.

Twitch, by removing the need for constant emote approval on Tier changes and by having more "eyes" into smaller streamers for their emotes at tier 1, as well as having more value into Tier 2 and Tier 3 altogether for better "revenue" from their Partners.

A lot of smaller streamers don't have the means to grow partly due to the limitations put in place by Twitch where a new affiliate can only have ONE tier 1, ONE tier 2 and ONE tier 3 emote.

When a viewer subscribes to a channel they want to be rewarded with emotes to express themselves as well as join in on conversations, memes and other means that the stream host is using to engage their audience.

This idea is great but restricting smaller streamers to just a single emote in each tier doesn't give an incentive for viewers to subscribe when $5 only grants them access to one emote when other more established channels have 3, 4, 5 and beyond for the same price.

To get to the point, I think that smaller channels should be permitted THREE tier 1 emote slots to begin with as the $5 asking price for just a single emote does not appear worth it to a lot of viewers and hinders some content creators growth creating a paradoxical loop where channels can't reach 15 sub points for more slots if no one is willing to sub because they can't offer their audience value for their buck.

I would like the ability for a channel to have an emote tied to the months subscribed.

There should be two options to go with the implementation, the ability to allow non-current subscribers to still use the emote and the ability to set the same emote for all subscriber month goals or a different one.

This helps reward people who subscribe to a channel for extended periods with more than just a sub badge. Creators could have a wildly different emote at each month, or choose to have an emote that evolves as their subscribers reach typical month goal.

In a way these would likely take design principles from sub badges but apply them to emotes. If creators enable the option it also allows non-current subscribers to still retain a small benefit from their tenure and allow them to use a specific, exclusive emote.

For example, 1 month may be a wooden tombstone emote, at 2, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months the emote would be changed to a fancier tombstone. In this way subscribers to that channel could have an evolving RIP emote that shows off their own contribution.

Given the amount of emotes this adds to a channel this feature may be best suited for partners.