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What’s a Hype Train?

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  • Hype Trains are in-stream events triggered by a spike in subscriptions or Bits usage.

  • New levels are reached by the community continuing to use Bits and adding more subscriptions.

  • A countdown is initiated for Emote rewards.

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Emotes are like Twitch’s Emojis

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Basically

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The Problem

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Hype Trains

Needed

More Hype

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The Answer

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New Emotes

Let’s give Hype Trains new life by adding High Tier Emotes and create a system for updating Emotes on a more regular basis.

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But, First…

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The arrival of the new Hype Train Emotes meant saying goodbye to the old Hype Train Emotes.

So, we held a memorial.

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High-Tier Emotes

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Remixed Classics

A little touch of motion and new context to some of Twitch’s most popular Global Emotes.

:KappaInfinite:

:PogChomp:

:HeyHeyGuys:

:BleedPurpleHD:

:KaPowPlatinum:

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The First Drop

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The Community Collection

30 brand new Emotes inspired by Twitch categories, made by the Twitch Community.

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How We Made Them

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Working with six artists in the Twitch community that we picked to represent a range of styles and voices, we created 30 Emotes inspired by Twitch Categories.

Sports Category by /AbritoArt

:BatterUp:

:PersonalBest:

:LateSave:

:RedCard:

:GriddyGoose:

Music Category by /goblintengu

:KittyHype:

:ChillGirl:

:Behold:

:FallDamage:

:KittyLove:

:CheersToThat:

:TurnUp:

:Rawk:

:GoblinJam:

Gaming Category by /LumpyTouch

:DangerDance:

:GimmeDat:

:FrogPonder:

:GoodOne:

:CatScare:

:MegaConsume:

:RaccoonPop:

:Henlo:

:YouMissed:

Food & Drink Category by /noirpunk

:TouchOfSalt:

Animals Category by /SharpBalloons

:MegaMlep:

Chatting/IRL Category by /symon_redd

:ApplauseBreak:

:ButtonMash:

:StirThePot:

:AGiftForYou:

:NoTheyDidNot:

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The Reveal

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The Community

Went Wild

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Social Media

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We profiled the artists using Stories

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Results

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WIn an attempt to get the KappaInfinite Emote within the first week of launch, PirateSoftware set the new Hype Train level record at 106, raising $500k+ for charity and essentially breaking Twitch.

As a show of respect, we created we created :DidIBreakIt:, a new High Tier Emote awarded at the new benchmark of 106.

Further results are still being compiled.