---
title: "{emote} / {emotes}"
description: One of your channel emotes at random, or all of them.
---

```text
{emote}              one random channel emote
{emotes}             every channel emote, space-separated
{emote:login}        a random emote from another channel
```

**Platforms:** Twitch only - Kick has no emote API the bot can read, so both read blank in Kick chat.

Your channel's subscriber, follower and bits emotes, by name - so the
bot's message shows the emote images in chat (for viewers who have
access to them).

## Examples

```text
!hype    →  {repeat:5|{emote}}
!emotes  →  Our emotes: {emotes}
timer    →  Sub to unlock {emote} and friends!
```

## Twitch only

Kick has no emote API the bot can read, so `{emote}` and `{emotes}` read
blank in Kick chat. (Kick emotes still work in the overlay widgets, which
read them from the browser.)

## The bot can only show emotes it owns

Twitch draws an emote only if the account *sending* the message is
allowed to use it. The bot posts as TipPageBot (or your custom bot), so:

- **Sub emotes** show up only if the bot is subscribed to your channel -
  gift it a sub (a Tier 1 gift unlocks Tier 1 emotes, and so on).
- **Follower emotes** show up if the bot follows you.
- **Bits emotes** can't be unlocked for the bot.

`{emote}` and [`{ai:}`](/chat-bot/variables/ai) only ever use emotes the
bot can actually display - so if the bot isn't subbed or following,
`{emote}` is empty rather than a word. `{emotes}` lists everything,
because that's for your viewers to read.

## Third-party emotes are separate

`{emote}` is your **Twitch** emotes only. Your 7TV, BetterTTV and
FrankerFaceZ emotes have their own variables -
[`{7tv}` / `{bttv}` / `{ffz}`](/chat-bot/variables/third-party-emotes) -
and they have none of the entitlement rules above, because they're just
words the viewer's extension turns into images. `{7tv}` works in Kick
chat too.

## Notes

- `{emotes}` is capped at 400 characters so the message fits.
- Refreshes every 10 minutes.
- The AI variable also knows your emote names - see [`{ai:}`](/chat-bot/variables/ai).