Fans of Twitch's live-streaming gamers now can "cheer" them on in chat rooms with animated icons, ranging in cost from a couple of pennies to $140, in a new tipping system.

Twitch emotes, explained Twitch emotes are tiny pictures that, just like emoji, each have their own meaning and connotation. And although some have an obvious use, most of them are pretty obscure.

Twitch also spelled out guidelines for poop ("cute poop emojis" are fine, but not actual poop or pooping), single letter emoji (none are permitted), emoji based on hate speech (don't even try ...

You’ll now see a list of YouTube emotes when you open YouTube’s emoji picker, and they’ll appear below a channel’s own existing custom emotes. Much like Twitch’s default system-wide ...