YouNow Emoji Repository 🎨

This repository contains all the emoji used by the YouNow Custom Emoji Chrome Extension.

Each emoji is stored and served via GitHub Pages so the extension can fetch and display them in YouNow chat and the emoji picker.

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📁 Folder Structure

younow-emoji/
├── global.json                  # Emoji available everywhere
├── global/                      # Image files for global emoji
│   └── emoji-name.png

├── channels/                    # Channel-specific emoji
│   ├── username.json            # Channel emoji list
│   └── username/
│       └── emoji-name.png       # Images used in that channel

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✅ Emoji Rules

• Files must be exactly 100x100 pixels
• Formats: .png, .jpg, or .apng (no .gif)
• Filename must match the emoji name (e.g., party.png → #party)
• To keep emojis sharp and fast-loading, use compressed images

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🌍 global.json Format

{
  "party": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOUR_USERNAME/younow-emoji/main/global/party.png",
  "smile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOUR_USERNAME/younow-emoji/main/global/smile.png"
}

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📺 channels/username.json Format

{
  "username-wow": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOUR_USERNAME/younow-emoji/main/channels/username/username-wow.png"
}

These emojis only show up when viewing younow.com/username.

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🤝 Contributing

If you want emoji added for your channel, join guilded.gg/coikars and request it from the team.
We manually verify and upload emoji for quality and security.

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🧼 Maintainers

This repo is maintained by the creator of the YouNow Custom Emoji extension and trusted staff.

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Thanks for making chat more expressive! 🎉