YouTube is bringing custom global emotes to live chats and comments

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is rolling out Twitch-style custom global emotes for comments and live chats.
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created the first batch of emotes, which are focused on gaming, though it appears that they work on any type of channel. YouTube
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to develop emotes for other types of communities in the future.

To use the emotes, click on the smiling face icon in comments or a live chat. If you have a membership to a channel that
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, you'll see YouTube's global emotes below those. As with Twitch's emotes, you can start typing the name of a YouTube emote (such as :cat-orange-whistling: or :text-green-game-over:) in the chat and the autocomplete function will show the emote and emoji options. The first emotes also include a buffering icon and text reading "GG" (i.e. "good game").


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has long offered
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in chats. It might take a while before YouTube has emotes with the same level of cultural cachet as
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, Kappa or ResidentSleeper, but it's off to a decent start.

for the times where words just aren’t enough… introducing YouTube Emotes!

now everyone can join in & react to all the biggest Ws across streams w/ new emotes.

we’re starting with emotes for Gaming but more types of emotes to come, stay tuned

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— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube)
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