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I look forward to giant emotes in Twitch chats.

Starting this week, Twitch is going to let you add message effects and “gigantify” emotes with Twitch’s Bits currency. The effects promise make chats a little livelier, and I’m excited to see

A screenshot of a Twitch chat showing a very large cat emote.
CoolCat, but huge.
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