Users can access these emotes across YouTube in comment sections and during live chats, though the platform previously allowed individual streamers to offer their own reactions and emotes. Currently, YouTube offers a set of gaming emotes designed by Abelle Hayford, Guy Field, and Yujin Won, with plans to introduce more emotes based on new themes. “We’re starting with emotes created for Gaming but are working on bringing even more themes of emotes in the future, so stay tuned for emotes for even more communities!” says YouTube in a community post. According to YouTube, using an emote is the same as using an emoji. Users can access the available YouTube Emotes by clicking on the emoji icon in live chats or comments. Further, some YouTube emotes also have specific names, which users can type to autocomplete in live chats for quicker access. For example, a user can type “:cat-orange-whistling:” in live chats while viewing a stream, and YouTube will fill a comment with an orange cat whistling.