Videos by ComicBook.com Our first taste of animated emotes was provided through a post on the Twitch blog that showed a few of them in action as well as some effects added to existing emotes.

To do this, go to your Twitch dashboard and click on the "Emotes" tab. From there, click on the "Edit" button next to the MonkaW emote, and then select a keyboard shortcut to assign to it.

Twitch chat has a similar feature, known as Twitch emote. Viewers can use various Twitch emotes to express feelings of excitement, happiness, and even to poke fun, among others.

Soon, content creators across Twitch will be able to give their emotes a bit more life. In celebrating its tenth anniversary, Twitch is launching a few changes to emotes, including the option to ...