Twitch emotes can be a work of art, a tiny masterpiece of brilliance that conveys emotion or even whole sentences in just one image. Viewers often subscribe to a broadcaster just for their emotes. But with tens of thousands of emotes on Twitch it can sometimes be hard to find ones that really stand out.
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I'm sure he's a nice person to his friends, family, and girlfriend or whatever. But from watching his stream he's a total douche to his fans, people donate money to this kid and most of time he's bothered by it. One person even donated $15.00 to ask to play with him in H1Z1 and he was like fk off brah, I'm not playing with you, but thanks for the money though!. People actually donate money to people like this when there are people in this country who wake everyday not even knowing if they're going to have a meal or not. I don't donate money to streamers, but I can understand people wanting to donate to streamers like Swifty and Bajheera as they're stand up individuals to their fans and viewers, but Sodapoppin just rubs me the wrong way, I don't see how this guy gets 14k viewers everytime he streams, he's not good at any game besides WoW, and he's a total a-hole! Someone help me to understand why people throw away money to a streamer that doesn't even play with his fans? lol
3/10
3/10 It's so funny because everything I said about him is true, yet you gave me a 3/10.
He won blizzcon, plays resto druid really well, whats not to like?
he's not good at any game besides WoW
03/03/2015 07:38 PMPosted by Alëx
besides WoWlol
Wow I guess it's true people respect a-holes! ^
He won blizzcon, plays resto druid really well, whats not to like? You know he acts a lot like Kanye West.. arrogant and hates his fans yet people still like those .. people
Because he's a magician.
He won blizzcon, plays resto druid really well, whats not to like? um He won blizzcon, plays resto druid really well, whats not to like? um
03/03/2015 07:45 PMPosted by Vayris
He won blizzcon, plays resto druid really well, whats not to like?You know he acts a lot like Kanye West.. arrogant and hates his fans yet people still like those .. people You miss the point You have to think of his fan relationship like an abusive bromance When my friend stomps me in something, I'd probably respond 'wow u suck idiot' and he'd respond 'qq more inbred'. We don't actually mean it People feed off that garbage
THE LOUDER YOU TALK AND THE MORE YOU FREAK OUT THE MORE MONEY/VIEWERS YOU GET.
03/03/2015 07:49 PMPosted by Alëx
..You know he acts a lot like Kanye West.. arrogant and hates his fans yet people still like those .. people You miss the point You have to think of his fan relationship like an abusive bromance When my friend stomps me in something, I'd probably respond 'wow u suck idiot' and he'd respond 'qq more inbred'. We don't actually mean it People feed off that garbage That doesn't actually work with total strangers, though.. Why Is Sodapoppin So Popular GirlThat doesn't actually work with total strangers, though.. You're thinking in real life terms. No, it wouldnt work with a complete stranger. However, this is the internet - the rules are completely different not to mention if you're a fan then you arent really estranged to said person anyway
03/03/2015 08:26 PMPosted by Forsetï
That doesn't actually work with total strangers, though..You're thinking in real life terms. No, it wouldnt work with a complete stranger. However, this is the internet - the rules are completely different not to mention if you're a fan then you arent really estranged to said person anyway I don't think that person appreciated being told to 'Eff off' after donating to his favorite streamer because he wanted to play with him a little.
i understand your response but it has nothing to do with either of my posts
op didnt understand why he was popular and i simply explained People feed off that garbage
he's always in a good mood and makes for nice background noise
If the amount of fans he has is like 10-15 , there's no reason for him to decline but if he has that large amount of fans, i don't think its possible.
Soda is what is known as a 'bro' ~ he talks a lot of !@#$ and does things for the lols. They are children raised by the internet, or more specifically, chan boards.
If you like him enough to donate money to him, do not expect him to be bought off in this manner. He is going to continue to be who he wants to be..if you don't like it your one option is to simply not watch it. Personally, I can't stand him..only funny thing he ever did as far as I'm concerned is this badboy ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhyTin-V5g0
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Emotes are an essential element of the Twitch chat experience, so much so that it can be overwhelming for new viewers who are inundated with these images that convey inside jokes and phrases, especially when everyone else seems to understand what they mean. They’re used to troll streamers or other viewers, show support, or even just say “hi.” With more than 15,000 partnered broadcasters on Twitch, not to mention the hundred or so emotes that the company itself has made, that leads to a lot of emotes on the platform—more than 50,000, according to Twitch.
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When Twitch first spun off from Justin.tv in June 2011 the site apparently had around 50 emotes. With its rapid growth, it had to implement guidelines for the emotes, with certain content banned, such as nudity, drugs, explicit words, or anything that violates third-party intellectual property or privacy rights—recently the company surprise-banned butt emotes, leading to outrage in the Twitch community.
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The amount of emotes that a partnered broadcaster gets depends on how many subscribers they have, with different tier levels allowing for more emoticons. Newly partnered channels get two emotes automatically, two more when they hit 25 subs, and channels with 7,000 subscribers get the maximum number of emotes at 50. Some of the most popular words for emotes, according to Twitch, include RIP (death), Rekt (someone got beaten badly), Hype (celebration), Hello, and Fail.
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At TwitchCon last year, Twitch announced a power ranking of emotes, with Kappa topping the list. But so far nothing has really been written that includes broadcaster emotes. That’s where I come to the rescue. I’ve rounded up some of my favorite emotes from both Twitch and streamers themselves, so you can be the coolest kid in chat.
copyThis and pastaThat
This two-fold emote is only for Twitch Turbo subscribers (a special subscriber tier that costs $8.99 a month). If you’re not familiar with the term “copypasta,” you probably haven’t been on the Internet long. It’s a neologism formed from “copy and paste,” and on Twitch often refers to phrases or jokes that are spammed over and over again in chat. Sometimes the copypasta is so intense you want to reference it without using words (or by continuing the copypasta chain), so this copying machine with pasta coming out of it is just perfect.
duDudu
This Twitch emote depicting the song “Sandstorm” by dance music producer Darude is a classic. The track has been a meme in the gaming community since around 2007 (even though it was released in 1999), with people in chat often asking “What’s that song” and everyone else answering “Darude – Sandstorm” as a joke. The emote name itself (“duDudu”) refers to the song’s lyrics, with the absurdity of those lyrics one of the main reasons the track became a meme in the first place. Even better, on big esports streams the chat during countdown music is often punctuated by the duDudu emote. According to the Twitch Emotes website, it’s used roughly once every minute.
KappaRoss
The KappaRoss emote was introduced at the end of October last year when Twitch’s new Creative category kicked off with the inaugural Bob Ross The Joy of Painting marathon. A twist on the classic Kappa emote (which is used to denote sarcasm), KappaRoss adds the painter’s famous afro to Kappa’s head. During the eight-and-a-half day continuous stream, the KappaRoss emote was used a total of 3.8 million times—proving that sarcasm lives on, just like Bob Ross does in our hearts.
panicBasket
Sometimes you really just need to express your panic, and what better way to do that than with the panicBasket emote. Twitch’s graphic perfectly captures that terrifying feeling of finding out that your food is on fire (because I’m sure we’ve all gone through that at least once), or that a stream has gone down, or that the audio has cut out, or there’s someone creeping up behind the streamer to scare them. The panicBasket emote has proved so popular that it is used around 10 times every minute (down from 297 when I last checked, which hopefully proves that production quality is improving across the board), according to Twitch Emotes.
insaneSalty
Twitch is overrun with saltiness. The term, ubiquitous in gaming, refers to anger or annoyance—especially when someone’s losing. And for a lot of Twitch viewers, nothing is more delicious than a very public display of salt. There’s no better way to depict that than through a Grumpy Cat face with the word SALTY underneath it. The internet-famous cat is notorious for always looking crabby or bad-tempered, and Sarina, aka 1nsanitygaming, has captured the mood perfectly with her emote.
2mgPee
Yes, even streamers need to pee—and in the case of Ally, aka 2MGoverCsquared, what seems like every 10 minutes. Did you think they just sit there and hold it for the entirety of a 10-hour stream? No one’s paid enough for that. What better way to while away the time when a streamer’s doing their business than by spamming toilet emotes in the chat? It pretty much speaks for itself.
lfsW
“W” emotes are pretty much a staple for any partnered Twitch streamer. The zoomed-in face originated from Chance, aka Sodapoppin’s, stream and has since taken over. LeFrenchStallion’s “W” emote is easily one of the best on Twitch, with his eyes wide and mouth open in what looks like celebration, who wouldn’t laugh at thousands of those spammed in chat?
scarMEGA and scarLOVE
Another awesome two-emote special, Scarfino’s personalized Mega Man tribute is pretty next-level. Mega Man, a CAPCOM game franchise, has been around since 1987 and started off as a series of side-scrolling platformers. Scarfino is a huge fan of the games, so why not turn himself into Mega Man (complete with red beard) firing a loveheart out of his gun. His subs that also have Turbo often use the scarMEGA emote with the MiniK (Miniature Kappa) emote, calling it the Kappa Cannon.
sbzyStitches and sbzySays and sbzyBuffalo and sbzyHook
While having an image depicted over two separate emotes is cool, having four is epic. And what could be better than having it as Heroes of the Storm’s Stitches Hook move (think Pudge from Dota 2’s Meat Hook or League’s Blitzcrank with his Rocket Grab). Well played, ShaBooZey, well played.
juliaChair
Another Twitch staple, whenever a broadcaster leaves the frame of the camera (most likely grabbing food) and all viewers can see is their chair, chat will often be spammed with chair emotes (usually right alongside Hype emotes). JuliaTV’s chair emote captures a bit of both worlds, with the little pink hearts showing just how exciting and fun chair streams can be—at least until the streamer comes back and ruins the fun.
atpRtsd1 and atpRtsd2 and atpRtsd3 and atpRtsd4
For those Twitch viewers that want to be extra trolly, a new-ish trend has users building a giant face in chat with four separate emote slots. A few streamers have done this, but AvoidingThePuddle and Ice_Poseidon do it really well. The emote for AvoidingThePuddle (FGC player Aris’ stream), is popular Street Fighter player Alex Valle.
Grand Theft Auto V has been given new life thanks to a roleplaying server called 'No Pixel,' where enterprising players can take on the role of a doctor, a criminal, and nearly everything in between. The roleplaying server has exploded in popularity thanks to Sodapoppin, Forsen, Summit1g, and a number of other extremely prominent Twitch streamers picking the modded server up and featuring it on their channels over the past week.
Grand Theft Auto V roleplaying isn't new, but this is the first time there's been a dedicated server for it that's accessible online, although 'No Pixel' is locked behind an application process that screens potential participants. The server's application asks a number of fascinating questions that players must (hopefully) answer in-character to parse, including ones that ask interested parties what they would do if they found a car on the street with a 'load' of drugs inside. The server has a pretty close to zero-tolerance policy for breaking character, but beyond that, players pretty much have free rein to figure out who they want to be.
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It's exactly the kind of niche phenomenon that has dominated Twitch before - think such classics as Twitch Plays Pokemon - and it's doing it again. These streams and the thousands of people watching them have routinely placed Grand Theft Auto V into unheard of territory, competing with Fortnite and League of Legends in viewership numbers. The popularity has also begun to spawn a cinematic universe related to the streamers who are participating in the server, even though most cinematic universes don't stream 24-hour features that can be viewed from the perspective of five different main characters simultaneously. Here's what Twitch's viewership figures look like tonight, on March 19, 2019:
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That's right - Grand Theft Auto V, a game that's over five years old at this point and is not inherently the sort of multiplayer title that regularly attracts Twitch crowds, is up over 40k viewers on its next closest competitor, Fortnite. There's also a lot of variety, with some streamers plotting out elaborate storylines with collaborators while others just try to portray their own character to the best of their ability. For instance, Sodapoppin's streams feature him roleplaying as Kevin Whipaloo, an anxious mess of a man who is trying to make honest money in a city literally called Crime City, USA. It only gets weirder from there, but it's entertaining stuff, and it's becoming so popular it might be here to stay.
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Of course, Twitch has hosted several different popular lightning-in-a-bottle moments that haven't panned out into sustained viewership communities. Something about Grand Theft Auto V roleplaying feels unique, though. It could be that it is well-suited to showcasing what makes streamers so popular in the first place in their personalities. It might be that we've seen ambitious crossovers between several popular content creators already, and could see even more. Or it could just be that these streams capture what many people's first moments with GTA as a series were: the kind of controller chaos and unexpected free-roaming that made for excellent stories to be shared with friends at a later date. Whatever it is, Grand Theft Auto V roleplaying is Twitch's next big thing, and it's already here to stay, at least for the short-term.
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Source: Twitch, No Pixel (via Kotaku)
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