Where I see Follower emotes working best is by giving your followers access to 5 of your existing sub emotes, and if they want the remainder, they would need to subscribe. It would allow them to get a taste of your library and still feel like a part of the community. However, the way it's set up now makes that complicated.

THE ISSUE: If you decide to make some of your existing sub emotes available to followers with the current system, you have two options: either you have to make a second version of the same emotes, or you have to move 5 of your sub emotes to be only follower emotes. Both of these options have problems.

Creating a second version would lead to, for example, a Love emote having to be Love2 emote or LoveF for followers. This leads to people who are both subs AND followers now having two versions of the same emotes.

Making the follower emotes separate from your sub emotes also has problems, as it makes those follower emotes ONLY useable on your channel and nowhere else, even if they are subscribed to you. This is incredibly limiting.

I've seen people say to just make the follower emotes useable everywhere, but this also has some issues. It basically forces subscribers to follow you if they want the remainder of your emotes. While it may seem like being a subscriber and being a follower should go hand-in-hand, the harsh truth is that some users may simply want to subscribe to a streamer for their emotes and do not care to watch them. By forcing them to be a follower to get the remaining emotes, they now have a channel on their followed bar that they don't care to watch.

THE SOLUTION: Simply make the follower emotes like a lesser sub. They are not new emotes, they just use five of your existing emotes, but they can ONLY be used on your channel. A subscription, on the other hand, allows them to use all of your emotes, including the follower ones, everywhere. Simple as that. Followers will now only follow because they care about your content and want to use some of your emotes during your streams. Subscribers don't have to follow if they don't want to as they already have all of your emotes and they can use them anywhere. There are no second versions of the same emotes.

The only potential downside to this is that you won't be able to make new emotes for followers, but in my opinion, it doesn't make sense to make follower emotes different from sub emotes. Most people will make their first five subscriber emotes the most representative of their community and the most used ones. Those should be the ones followers get access to, not some random off-kilter emotes that they'll barely ever use.

Hopefully this makes sense! Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Add more Creators/Channels to the BETA Testing of the Follower Emotes. That way you can get more input over the next few months, and potentially avoid any issues that may or may not happen when the emote options go live site-wide. I have YET to even find or follow a channel that has the follower emotes available. We can't give out accurate opinions on the idea when so few channels have the option. Plus it will give more creators freedom of expression, test twitch's servers as it gradually increases the amount of channels using them, and make lots of emote artists happy. I have emotes ready to go because we were under the impression it wouldn't be a several months long BETA test.

I had problem with the follower emotes not showing for me in the menu but after some time i got the info that they don't show if the BTTV or FFZ emote menu are active, atleast the FFZ seem to be the one most hindering this. the one feature that I use FFZ for is that you favorite emotes you have access to, and would you lose access to them and then get them back, they are still flagged as favorite.
This has been very helpful for me since sometime the emote I want to use is not under "Recent" and scrolling down to find the channel that gives the emote and finding it takes too long and chat is way past the subject I wanted to post the emote for. it works as easy as Ctrl+Lmb to flag it.

5 is way to big of a number to instantly unlock upon following.

It completely disincentives' the need to sub. I feel like a much better system would be max 3 emotes that unlock over time. For Ex: 10 mins- 6 hours- 24 hours following. In addition to this, if they're only usable in my channel, I may as well continue using BTTV / FFZ and encouraging users to install the browser add on.

A suggestion i saw made by a friend was that three would be perfect. FOR EXAMPLE: Hello, Love/Hype, and a Raid emote. Combine this with the request to make 1 emote usable site wide and its simplifies the process without forcing people away from subbing.

Currently 5 is way too much. Especially since both Affiliates and partners are getting 5. It just dilutes an already over crowded and poorly organized emote menu. And if what i'm seeing is correct, subs can't use follower emotes, it's entirely pointless. Why should someone be punished for spending their money with twitch by having their usable emotes reduced in my channel?

It would be cool if you could set a specific amount of time you have to have been followed in order to receive the follower emotes.

Similar to i.e. 10 minute followers only chat, the streamer could be given the option to set a time frame for how long someone has to have been followed to get the emotes! Even better so if you can decide it emote specifically

I think that could incentivize coming back to the channel and adds another reward to community members based on their time in the if the streamer so choses.

If the streamer wanted to, they could give an emote to people who just followed, an emote for 1 month of being a follower, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and a year.
Or an emote for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1h, 2h, 1 day and so on.