Follower emotes were just unlocked for Affiliates - why do we need instant upload for it to work? I do understand the need to streamline and keep emotes within ToS - but the Automated bot is allowing SOME emotes in and not others. A simple emote of a duck on a toilet is "against terms of service" - but yet several gasm emotes aren't? For reference, just look on etsy for "Cute duck and chick emotes" and you'll find the duck on the toilet that's prevented instant upload for a few decent streamers who bought the pack. All i'm asking is a re-review on how the automated bot picks emotes up, and how it considers something "sexual" when it's not.

Emotes are a key part of twitch, to the point that you can often convey more with just a certain emote than with a message.

Many people would love to see emotes displayed in the maximum size in chat.
I'm guessing there are probably some limitations in in-line emote display tied to text pixels or something (either for practical reasons or esthetic reasons)...
...but some platforms have a solution for this, and I'm hoping it can be implemented on twitch.

In Discord, in-line emotes are displayed small, similar to Twitch, however, when ONLY emotes are used, they are displayed at full size.
People constantly use emotes as separate messages to follow up their text to get emotes to show up nicely,but more often than not just the emotes are used to communicate.
The better emotes show up, the easier it is to use them, and it really can set the tone for a community.

I hope that a proper emote size display is doable to program as long as there is no other message text.

Follower emotes are a great idea, however, currently they hold no real value. A lot of streamers use BTTV/FFZ and have 50 or more emotes for anyone to use in their own chat.
However, rewarding followers that actually come back to your stream a lot would be great! Perhaps it would be possible to give people access to follower emotes in other channels if they spend at least X amount of hrs or X% of a streamer's typical streamtime in their stream (per week or month or whatever).

It rewards coming back, but doesn't take away too much fire away from subs.
It also finally rewards the general viewer, who tends to get overlooked but is very important to the channel's atmosphere. Not everyone can miss a sub's worth of money every month, but this way, simply being part of the community will give them something back.

You could even make this an unlock system that allows a viewer to unlock 1-5 of the emotes outside of the original channel based on their watch time. This way, more active members are rewarded more.

My idea is that there could be a chat setting(user-, not streamerside) where you can filter out different Emotes that could trigger you. For example im arachnophobic (have a fear of spiders, if Pics, Vids or in rl, those things creep me out and when i did a hypetrain and saw that spider it send shivers down my spine.
I also have heard from some people i know they are Coulrophobic (Fear of clowns) which theres luckily no emote thats this way.

But in situations that a emote triggers a phobia I'd like to have something, if its a Checkbox that says "_____-phobia" or a filter that you can choose yourself, but please do something about emotes that could trigger people.

Thanks for your Time, Phil

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.