
Enable it, and you should be good to go – though you may need a refresh or two for the emotes to start showing up. Installing BTTV is as simple as going to their website and downloading the extension for your browser. If the streamer you’re watching is using BTTV or FFZ and you don’t have either installed, you won’t see when the emotes are being used in chat. Tons of streamers on Twitch use third party extensions like Better Twitch TV (BTTV) or FrankerFaceZ (FFZ) so they can enable many popular emotes on their chat. Unfortunately, neither BTTV nor FFZ work on mobile, so even if you have both services activated, you still won’t see the emotes in your mobile chat.ģrd Party Extensions to Help You See Twitch Emotes You have BTTV/FFZ but you’re on mobile.If you don’t have one of these browser extensions installed, you won’t be able to see or use certain emotes only available through them. Many streamers use the Better Twitch TV or FrankerFaceZ browser extensions to augment their channel emotes. If you haven’t donated enough bits to unlock that bit emote tier, you won’t be able to use that special emote. Since the addition of bit emotes, streamers now have the ability to reward their loyal viewers with permanent emotes they can unlock if they enough donate bits. So, if you’re a tier 1 sub, you can’t use tier 2 or tier 3 emotes. Remember that you can only use the emotes on the tier you are subscribed to. If you want to use a specific streamer’s emotes, you have to be subscribed to them. If you’re seeing tons of people typing the same emote codes and names but the actual graphics aren’t showing up for you, or if you’re trying to use emote codes but it’s not working, it could be because of one of the reasons listed below: 3rd party emotes can only be used/seen if you have the 3rd party browser extension installed – and they only work on PC.These emotes are unlocked permanently, unlike sub emotes which you must pay for monthly. Bit emotes can only be used if you have donated enough bits to unlock the emote for use.Sub emotes can only be used by subscribers to specific channels.Twitch global emotes are emotes built into Twitch that can be used by anyone, anywhere on the platform.There are a few kinds of emotes on Twitch:

Anywhere you go, you’ll see emotes being used – there’s literally no escaping them.īut why is it that sometimes, you can’t see the actual emotes on Twitch chat? Types of Twitch Emotes No doubt, there are tons of streamers who worked as hard as they could to get Twitch affiliate just so they could have their very own emotes they could use on the platform.

Emotes are one of the best things about Twitch and Twitch Culture as we know it.
