Top 5 most-used Twitch emotes and what they mean

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Twitch has had a long history of being the premier place for streamers to call home, but what makes it a standout contender amongst the ever-growing crowd of competition? One of the things that makes the platform special is the selection of emotes, and how easy it is to create and customize them.

While there are thousands on the site to choose from, many chat users only use their favorite few emotes. This list will go over the most-used emotes and explain how they are mainly used by the community on Twitch (according to StreamElements).

This pixelated face might be familiar to some, as it is based off of the the same person who is used for the KEKW emote. Similar to KEKW, it's used to express laughter either at what's happening on stream or for what the viewer had just typed. The emote comes from the channel ChipSA, who almost exclusively plays Overwatch on stream.

This is one of the platform's official emotes, using the face of the streamer TriHex that was found in an old photo from 2012. It's used to express excitement, and can be seen when a streamer announces something big. Fortunately, it is rarely used in a racist context.

This is the only emote on the list without a clear use, as it has a very niche use. The image is a variation of the platform's classic emoticon face, with an eyepatch covering its left eye with no other differences. This could very well be a manufactured increase in uses, using an automated bot that spams the emote as much as it can.

So either people really liked using this eye-patch-sporting emoticon, or someone spammed it so much that it overtook other entries on this list.

While the previous entry might have used a bot to increase it's numbers at one point, this entry is without a doubt using a bot