Allow Subscribers to use Follower Emotes in Any Channel
Currently, Follower Emotes can only be used in the channel they're for, while the user is followed to the channel. This means as a broadcaster, I have to decide between which emotes can't be used anywhere else, and which I can provide to followers to use in my channel without a subscription.
Ideally, it would be nice if subscribers to a channel would be able to use Follower Emotes anywhere on Twitch, as they currently use Subscriber Emotes. This would give an added benefit to subscribers, with additional emotes in other channels, while still allowing followers to use the selected Follower Emotes within your own channel, and no painful decision.
Thank you for your time!

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JAQKpanda commented
Agreeing with this. Right now I've got 5 follower slots, 7 subscribe slots and 3 animated slots--but I don't want to "waste" expensive commissioned emotes on slots that both followers and subscribers can't use outside of my channel.
If absolutely nothing else, subscribers should absolutely be able to use them outside of the channel. It's a really silly function that otherwise serves no purpose and feels like a waste of commission money.
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AcroFlipper commented
Hello!
Streamers should be able to use their own follower emotes anywhere on Twitch. I understand not allowing viewers of the stream not being able to do so, but channel owners should be able to. We paid for the emote, why can we not use it in other channels when it's our own emote, from our own stream, that we paid for?
Just a thought, I hate that I cannot use some of my emotes on Twitch that are my very own because of the category they're in.
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Darth_Spanky commented
It's so dumb that we can't even use our own emotes outside of our streams. The whole point of emotes is to use them everywhere.
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GamekNightPlays commented
I agree - right now, I have my follower emotes as animated emotes so that my subs get an upgraded version and can use them across other channels.
At the very least, follower emotes should be usable by subs in other channels!!
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blackjack_kent commented
Definitely agree! It seems super weird that subs (and the broadcaster themselves!) can't use these emotes outside of the origin channel. Seems like an overall loss of functionality for subscribers even though it's an improvement for followers.
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saiyanprynz26 commented
Yea this should be allowed no doubt
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trickjump commented
yes, this please
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Tray2DaWorm commented
I have some emotes that I want to use all over twitch. I can only use them on my channel because they are in the follower slot. I am all for allowing follower emotes to be used all over twitch.
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xnapzz commented
I'm all for it
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PirateSoftware commented
Just tried to shift some of my T1s over to Follower Emotes thinking people would be able to use them anywhere on the platform. Found out quickly that they were bound to only my channel. No point to them at all as they don't add to Twitch culture in any way like this. Going to boost this issue going forward.
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MarcD73 commented
Yes. 100% yes.
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DamagedPlushie commented
Without the ability for subscribers to use it across other channels they're no different from bttv except we can make bttv emotes with smaller customized words, we can share and have more bttv emotes. We already had this. Add it to the subscription pack
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JetSetRocky commented
AGREED. Absolutely.
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Ivalyth commented
I would love for my followers and/or subs to use the base emotes everywhere, and I logged in here just to whistle out that I support this idea. I understand that making follower emotes automatically usable anywhere is kind of chaotic, so why not unlock them at tier 1 anyways?
It goes without saying that I would also love to use my own follower emotes everywhere else. I relegated basic emotions to follower emotes, so it's quite sad that my subscribers don't get access to those everywhere, including me during a raid!
This function is still in beta as I'm writing this, so I hope my feedback contributes to have an even nicer environment for users <3
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On_a_stack commented
Pretty lame that you can't use follower emotes across all channels
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Zoreo_ commented
I seem to be a little late to the party, but I really like the idea of subs having follower emotes everywhere. I can actually see myself using quite a few follower emotes all over twitch if I had the option
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Drathmorgh commented
I disagree as the follower emotes offer me a streamer to have channel-specific emotes that only work in my channel.
emotes that are too channel-specific don't get used in other streams and thus don't attract people to check out the channel because of "cool emotes"
This also allows more branding of your channel and make it a better space to be.
if you want more slots then you have to work to partner!
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STRAiT1 commented
@Twitch-Staff STOP limiting follower emotes! Make follower emotes euqal to all other emotes on the site! Follower emotes should be usable EVERYWHERE on Twitch in every chat, on every OS-plattform, as long as they are following me! This is the kind of limitation that makes people use BTTV FFZ etc! Who came up with this stupid limitation idea?
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Klownstein commented
YES! I love using my own emotes, so it was a bummer to me to know that any emotes I pay my artist to make thy become follower emotes would really only be used by my chatters. I want a piece of the fun too! After all, they’re my emotes!!
Also, I think this would be a great way to let people try out emotes and still be able to use the ones they’ve grown accustomed to while obtaining new ones if they choosebto sub. Seems kind of weird to play around with certain emotes in chat, and then subscribe ksut to have completely different emotes to use elsewhere.
I’m hoping this gets incorporated! Great idea!
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RUMIcherub commented
Absolutely agree to this. Currently, the streamer has to make the awkward decision between what emotes can be used by all followers and which ones can be used on other channels (even by themselves).