Artists get more recognition on Twitch thanks to new features

Being an artist for Twitch streamers can be an ungrateful job. Many users don’t even know who made the visuals for their favourite streamer, or who made their preferred emoji.

Moreover, there are countless cases of stealing the artwork and breaking the copyright rules, which only demotivates creators to produce content. Fortunately, Twitch decided to fix that and released the Artist Badges and Emote Attribution functions.

Artist Badges

Artist Badges are new small icons to be featured in Twitch chats. Streamers can give up to five badges to creators, which will display a small brush icon near their nickname after typing something in chat.

The badges can be assigned to emote, overlay, and avatar artists. If a creator doesn’t want to show his badges, they can hide them in the settings. Furthermore, artists need to approve the badges assigned to them before they will be displayed. 

Emote attribution

The second of the two new features for artists is Emote Attribution. Thanks to this feature, Twitch streamers can assign authors to the emojis they created for the channel. This way, anytime a person clicks on the emote, they can see who’s the author of the image thanks to the small purple brush icon. 

While these changes seem small, they are especially important for artists and painters who often struggle with the absence of clients, their art pieces being stolen, and overall underestimation of their efforts. 

 

Images credit: Twitch