New to Twitch and have seen unique and expressive emotes on the platform? They are not available in chat by default and require some extra steps to use them on stream. What you need to know here is how to use 7TV emotes on Twitch and once you get the hang of it, you can use it for more emotes and many more features that will enhance your experience.

If you don’t have this extension and other chatters are using the emotes, you might just see words like “HUH” and “CatJAM” on the screen without seeing the actual emote, which can be confusing. Don’t worry, here’s how to fix that.

First you need to download the 7TV browser extension. If you are using Google Chrome you can use Add to Chrome here.

Then click Add Extension in the pop-up window that appears.