how to disable emotes showing on twitch streams
You can hide emotes in Twitch chat , but whether you can remove them entirely depends on where you’re watching.
What you can do
- On Twitch itself, you can’t fully disable emotes for the stream video, because emotes in the broadcast are part of what the streamer is sending.
- For chat, you can reduce or hide emotes by using browser add-ons or chat filters.
- Some chat tools and extensions let you block standard emotes, BTTV/7TV/FFZ emotes, or turn them into plain text.
Practical options
- Hide emotes in chat with a browser extension.
- Some extensions can hide emotes, stickers, and emoji in Twitch chat.
- Use Twitch moderation tools if you are the streamer or a mod.
- You can set banned words or phrases to catch specific emotes by their text codes.
- You can also use Emote Only mode if you want chat to be emotes-only instead of normal text.
- If you only want a cleaner viewing experience.
- Hide chat altogether, or use a custom chat style/extension that strips emotes.
Important limitation
- If the emotes are appearing inside the video itself as part of the stream overlay or an on-screen alert, viewers usually can’t disable those from their side.
Best fix by role
- Viewer: use a chat-hiding extension or hide chat.
- Streamer/mod: ban specific emote codes or use moderation filters.
- Want no emote spam at all: consider turning on Emote Only mode for a period, then switch it off later.
A simple example: if people keep spamming a specific emote like “Kappa,” you can add that emote code to your banned words list so it won’t post in your chat. If you want, I can give you the exact steps for viewer , streamer , or mobile app.