I will stand corrected, with this excellent example.

God, I'm so disconnected with current millennial trends, I had to lookup what those stickers were.

I'm a millennial and haven't heard of them until now.

Everyone likes to keep coming up with new names for the word "emote".

I'm actually a millennial too, I just don't give a damn about all these new apps that are reinventing irc for the tap/swipe people.

I have to admit, Slack and Discord are much nicer to use than IRC - even something like IRCCloud (and I'm a relatively happy paying customer of IRCCloud).

It's probably due to location. LINE is absolutely dominant in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and a few other Asian markets. None of my friends in America use it really. Facebook messenger is clearly watching LINE closely though.

>Also, the gaming community is already used to paying for these items on sites like Twitch

But I have a "global twitch emote" plugin on chrome so I presume kappa will already show up for me if used in discord?

Why would a chrome plugin affect a totally separate application?

It's not really totally separate. Discord is a web app and you can run it in chrome. The only feature that you lose is push-to-talk, last I looked.

Granted, a lot of people will run the electron-based desktop app (which packages the web site), but IIRC, there's a plugin for twitch emotes for it too.