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Streamers know that emotes are an integral part of streaming culture and are important for encouraging viewers to subscribe. Therefore, it’s essential that you offer up a variety of popular, versatile emotes for your chatters to use at their leisure.
Essential Streamer Emotes
While there are a ton of emotes out there, chatters in the streaming community have definitely singled out a few favorites. Here’s our list for popular emotes that your chatters will get a ton of use out of.
Megalul
Your streams are bound to have laugh-out-loud-worthy moments, which is why a megalul emote is essential for your channel. The original megalul features a very distorted, enlarged mouth, however, feel free to tweak (if designing on your own) or find one that more fitting for you.
Sadge
Not every moment of your stream is a barrel of laughs. For those soul-crushing times when your character dies during an intense gaming session, or you sing off-key during your mini-concert stream, your viewers need an emote to express their best sympathies. While the traditional sadge emote (short for sad and depressing) features a heartbroken frog, we created this tearful ghostie. We did give him a jazzy little hat though, so at least it’s not all bad.
POG
Every streamer who games needs a POG (aka “Play of the Game”) emote for their chat to spawn when they do something cool or exciting in game. While the standard POG emote features a guy with his mouth open, nothing says “cool” or “nice play” like a pair of shades and a satisfied smirk.
Yes/No
Sometimes, you just want to ask your chat a quick yes or no question and receive quick responses in return. While typing “yes” or “no” isn’t difficult, it’s easier for the chat to spam emotes and easier for you, the streamer, to see what the general consensus is. Here’s a tip: make your “yes” and “no” emotes different colors for maximum clarity.
Dance Party/Raid
If you’re having a musical moment on stream, your chat will want to join the party. There are also times where your stream will get raided and no doubt your viewers will want to welcome the new guests accordingly. We created a character gleefully throwing rainbow confetti in the air because, let’s face it: rainbow confetti makes everything better.
Now that you have some ideas for emotes take a stab at creating some of your own, scour the internet for premade ones or call on a pro on Fiverr to create some on-brand emotes for your Twitch channel.