Emote rarity

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Emote rarity exists within many different facets of several emotes in DGG chat—a unique feature that sets it apart from many chat rooms. Rare emotes are variations of emotes that provide some visually distinctive alteration to a normal emote, most commonly 'gold' versions (or other colors, usually colors of rare gems/minerals) that are given to chatters 'randomly'. That being said, two other categories of rare emotes exist—user-based, and subscription based.

'Probability'-based

While the Cabge, glorp, and WEOW rare emote variants are thought of as having a programmed random occurrence, (e.g. random number chance) they are actually set to only happen at certain times—usually in the hundreds of milliseconds, or seconds for the rarer emotes.

Functionally, this allows for emotes to be semi-random (as sending an emote at a specific time is seen as essentially random as it is based on the hundreds to thousands of milliseconds seconds sent, rather than based on the minute, second, etc. leaving it mostly immune to tampering/forcing rare variants, though it has been alleged some users use scripts to try to send messages at specific times to increase their odds of posting a rare variant (though this practice has been discouraged).

Additionally, this time-based pseudo-random-chance serves to reduce the chances of multiple chatters from getting them at the same time, as two chatters typing an emote at the same time will Combine to form a Combo and allowing them to seem more rare.

Functionally, the chat handles this by changing messages with a certain Unix timestamp ending in predetermined strings to the rare variants. For example, the golden glorp requires that a user post a message with a time stamp ending in 696, meaning that (roughly) in any given second, you have around a 1 in 1000 chance of the message being posted in the chat at that specific millisecond.

User-based

Certain rare variants are based on the user typing them - the most common of which was the rare Mel variants of emotes that Melina had, such as her dggL and GIGACHAD.

Certain users also have "golden" variants of YEE and PEPE, such as JadyrVernanda, as well as PRSEK and cyver, respectively.

Subscription-based

A few emotes have what can arguably be considered rarity by way of subscription-gated additions/coloring to emotes, primarily dggL, BLADE, and GIGACHAD. These modifications are expressed in the CSS of the chat and essentially boil down to a change in the color when hovered over or the color of an element on the emote (e.g. the heart of the dggL changing color or the blade of BLADE changing.)

Emotes with rare variants

LEGEND: RED denotes emotes variant that no longer exist as it has been deprecated. GREEN denotes an emote variant that is currently still in use. Table is organized alphanumerically.

Cabge	Probability-based
	Red
dggL	User-based
	Bear		Given to the bear.
	dggMel		Formerly given to Melina.
	Gnome		Unknown use. Possibly intended for Destiny.
	Subscription-based
	Tier 1		Given to subscribers and corresponding to the color of their flair.
	Tier 2
	Tier 3
	Tier 4
	Tier 5
glorp	Probability-based
	Gold
	Platinum
	Emerald
	Diamond
	User-based
	Bow		PRSEK, cyver, and Destiny always have this glorp. This variant initially started out as a variant for the Pride month emotes.
	Miscellaneous
	Red		Unknown use. Possibly intended for Destiny.
	Angel		Unknown use.
WEOW	Probability-based
	Bronze
	Gold
	Platinum		No longer attainable by the average chatter.
	Emerald
	Diamond
	Rainbow
	User-based
	Platinum		Given to cyver, probably since it looks pink like the Emote Master flair.
	Total WEOW Death		Given to RTBA due to his notorious hatred of WEOW.
	Miscellaneous
	Angel		Unknown use.