Alert announcements

The bot's chat messages for follows, subs, gift subs, resubs, cheers, raids, and tips - each with an editable template.

When something happens on stream - a follow, a sub, a cheer, a raid, a tip - the bot can post a message in chat. The Alerts tab on the Chat bot page controls which events get announced and what the bot says.

Chat announcements are independent of the on-stream alert pop-ups: those are configured per overlay in the overlay editor, so an event can be announced in chat without showing on an overlay, and vice versa.

Per-event toggles

One row per event: Follow, Sub, Gift sub, Resub, Cheer, Raid, and Tip. Flip the toggle to announce that event. All announcements are off by default.

For cheers there’s also a Min bits for chat announce threshold - cheers below it don’t get a bot message. (Overlay alerts have their own per-overlay minimum in the editor.)

Custom messages

Click the pencil on a row to write your own message. Leave it blank to use the default. Variables in {curly braces} are filled in when the message posts:

Event	Variables	Default message
Follow	`{user}`	`Welcome @{user}! Thanks for the follow!`
Sub	`{user}` `{tier}`	`🎉 @{user} just subscribed! (Tier {tier})`
Gift sub	`{user}` `{count}` `{s}` `{tier}` `{recipients}`	`🎁 @{user} gifted {count} sub{s}! (to {recipients})`
Resub	`{user}` `{months}` `{tier}`	`🎉 @{user} has been a sub for {months} months!`
Cheer	`{user}` `{bits}`	`💎 @{user} cheered {bits} bits!`
Raid	`{user}` `{viewers}`	`🎉 @{user} raided with {viewers} viewers!`
Tip	`{name}` `{amount}` `{symbol}`	`💜 {name} tipped {symbol}{amount}!`

A few notes:

{s} is s when the gift count is more than one, empty otherwise - so sub{s} reads “sub” or “subs”.
Every template also supports {channel}, {pick:a|b|c} (a random inline pick) and {list:name} (response lists) - the same variables as custom commands.
Unknown {tokens} are left as-is, so a typo shows up literally in chat rather than vanishing.
Messages are capped at 400 characters and can’t start with / or !.

So a sub template like Thanks {user} - welcome to tier {tier}! {pick:GG|PogChamp|LFG} works exactly how you’d hope.