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# twitch emotes overview

Emotes:
* standard emotes are available starting at t1
* emote modifiers (like sunglasses) start being available at t2
* starting at t2, you get more standard emotes and then "empty slots" for your own emotes
* the escalation of the empty slots is complex and confusing (especially as i don't know all the teiring terminology). I suspect you have at least 5.
* twitch provides some free to use defaults for the custom slots while you get "real" ones created if desired: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/subscriber-emote-guide?language=en_US#defaults
* your emote slots never go away even if the teiring algo drops
* To manage your emotes, head to your dashboard. On the left-hand sidebar, click Viewer Rewards, then Emotes. Subscriber Emotes is the first section listed on the Emotes page.
* looks like "cheering" and "cheermotes" need to also be investigated

refs:
* good overview: https://blog.streamelements.com/how-to-make-emotes-for-twitch-f3e621aed210 -- some of the links in the article are bad and the teiring seems to have changed but it does a good job of answering wth are emotes
* [twitch subscriber guide](https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/subscriber-emote-guide?language=en_US)
