>>66403755>You're attempting to change the narrative here to fit your example.No, I just believe you're overstating the role that emotes have in crafting a chat culture.
To put it much more simply, I believe that the relationship is entirely reversed. The chat culture is what informs the emotes.
>you need to talk about how one of them uses another's emote to promote the streamer who does not own said emote.The thing about that is that emotes are not viewed as promotional material, or at least not in a way that is at all harmful or unwelcome to other streamers. This is purely a perceptional difference between you and Twitch users.
The point of the 3AM example was to highlight that emotes are not where chat culture comes from.
>Emotes are even arguably MORE important on Twitch.In the broad scope of the platform yes, emotes are more important on Twitch than YouTube. Part of the reason for this is the large amount of global emotes, and the ability to use sub emotes globally. But this conversation is about their role in creating a chat culture.
What YTfags don't really get is that there are two distinct cultures at play on Twitch (if not more, e.g. flesh vs vtuber culture). There's a foundational, sitewide culture which is more akin to a "language" and set of unspoken social rules, and emotes are a part of that. But within that culture there are channel-specific cultures.
>Twitch is the only platform between these two that literally has a *dedicated chat mode* for them.Just as an aside I want to clarify that emote-only mode is not there to highlight or put emotes on a pedestal, but rather to restrict chat while still allowing them to communicate in some way (e.g. to prevent spoilers or to stop a bot raid).
>Being immortalized as a channel specific emote is quite literally the final evolution for a channel's inside joke/mannerism. This does not change, and will forever be true, regardless of what platform you use.I also want to say that, generally speaking, Twitch streamers do not use their emotes to "immortalize an inside joke." Emotes on Twitch are typically made with the understanding that your viewers will be using them not just in your chat, but across the whole site. That said, there are still emotes which are inside jokes but can be used in a variety of scenarios (e.g. Nyanners's "nyannBad" showing her in a jail cell, the "pink cat bad" meme).
>YouTube is a better platform for this since it has feature parity with the moderation toolsWell this is a completely different conversation but if you think Twitch's mod tools begin and end with chat filters and automod... I mean...
>>66404665Twitch figured out how to get past standard adblockers but there are multiple Twitch-specific solutions these days.
