Are you a newcomer or just started your streaming career on Twitch? Well, that’s actually good. In your early stage of growing a Twitch channel, you have to learn about many things. It isn’t just about how to start streaming on Twitch, or how to prepare equipment, but also about the culture, such as Twitch slang.
Yes, when you decided to dip your toe into the water, you will find a lot of strange terms on Twitch. Many users use those slang words for jokes. If you are looking to become a part of the streamer’s community, let’s learn about the Twitch slang meaning.
Twitch Slang and Common Terms
In this article, we have made a list of many common terms and slang words on Twitch. Additionally, the Twitch terms explained any action exists on Twitch. You can read and understand more about them from the list below.
- Affiliate and Partner: As a Twitch user, you have to be familiar with Affiliate and Partner terms. It’s basically a Twitch program that allows users to monetize their stream through subscribers, ads, and cheers. Once they become an affiliate and partner, they can unlock customized emotes.
- Cheers: it’s a term to describe donations for streamers using Twitch virtual good.
- Bit: When a user wants to cheer their favourite streamers, they’ll use the bit. The bit is a virtual good you can purchase on Twitch. Additionally, every bit is worth certain dollars.
- Bot: bot offers viewers a way to do something related to streaming stuff, such as a bot in chat will provide information, or increase the viewer numbers.
- Clip: it’s a tiny part of the whole stream. The clip duration typically varies between 10 to 60 seconds. Furthermore, the clip has been taken from a memorable scene during live streaming.
- BTTV: BTTV stands for Better Twitch TV which is a Chrome extension that enables viewers to use emotes and animated spots in Twitch chat.
- F: spamming “F” on the chat means the viewers are paying their respects or sarcasm especially if there’s a tragic event on stream.
- VODs: Video on Demands (VOD) is a live broadcast that is automatically saved to the history. Everyone can watch the VODs through the Video section of a streamer’s channel.
- Kreygasm: When there is a satisfying moment on stream, such as beating a level on the first try in the game, users commonly spam with this word.
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Twitch Slang Words for Emotes
While diving deeper into Twitch, you will see various slang words scattered on the Twitch chat. Most of them are mainly used for joking. If you want to share the same fun with other users, take a look at the list below.
- Kappa: The basic emote you are going to find on Twitch is Kappa. It’s basically based on former Justin.TV employee. This emote can express sarcasm at something happening on stream.
- Jebaited: Jebaited emote appears when the streamers get baited or fooled in video games.
- LUL and LULW: LUL or LULW are emotes you can use to simply express joy or laughter. The LUL one is an original emote, while LULW is a slightly zoomed-in version of the original one. Additionally, LULW shows the intensity of someone’s laughter.
- SourPls: it’s basically a GIF that shows someone who’s dancing randomly in the store. You can use this GIF to celebrate a particularly good event on stream.
- PogChamp: Twitch slang pog refers to an emote that expresses surprise or excitement about something. It’s similar to Poggers though, but Poggers features Pepe the frog.
- MonkaS: Another Pepe the frog emote that is ideal to show if someone is nervous, anxious, or a bit overwhelmed.
- KEKW: If you want to express laughing in Twitch chat, you can use KEKW as an alternative laughing emote.
- PepeHands: the emote features Pepe crying with his hands in the air. This emote expresses sadness when something on stream upset you.
- GachiGASM: GachiGASM is an emote to represent something that makes you super happy.
- 4Head: 4Head is an emote to express an earnest response or sarcasm.
- Cmonbruh: when someone said something absurd on Twitch, you can respond to them with this emote.
Conclusion
Now that you have known about Twitch slang words and terms, you can now try to go deeper into this platform. By knowing those words, you can easily engage with other streamers and viewers and grow your channel easier.
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