Twitch has more than 30,000 emotes, compared with fewer than 2,000 emoji sanctioned by their official governing body, Unicode. The vast majority of Twitch emotes are what's known as subscription ...

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 ...

The origins of Kappa on Twitch Picture credits: dictionary.com In 2009, one of the engineers working on the Twitch chat client was Josh DeSeno, whose face is the emoji.

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, Amazon's site to broadcast and watch footage of people playing video games, has chat rooms packed with the craziest emoji -- called emotes -- you've ever seen. These glyphs mean more than ...