Emotes with a very short name can not be added to channels anymore

[surreal spear]

This emote: https://7tv.app/emotes/60af1023a564afa26edf687c could be added to any channel some time ago - but now it cant be added anymore. If I try to add it I get the error "bad name". I think there is a problem with adding emotes that have a very short name. I tested to add another emote with a short name: https://7tv.app/emotes/627ed08a089a7ee78fdb7a6f and I got the same error "bad name". (Environment: Windows 10, Firefox)

[weak yoke]

For emote names, it can contains:
a-z, A-Z, 0-9
:-_() but only if used with other characters im pretty sure
minimum 2 characters

About why the listed emote can have single character as name, they probably renamed it afterwards

[surreal spear]

yeah I know about the usual min 2 characters, but the thing is, the "." emote actually is added to some channels with the original name "."

[weak yoke]

Dunno
Probably was an exploit that got patched

They were uploaded in 2021 and 2022
So yeah

[surreal spear]

or was it allowed to upload emotes with one character at that time?

[unborn flume]

yes

I believe there was a point in time where you could upload and add emotes with single characters

but when they changed the rules they didn't just remove the emotes and all the channels they were in

(likely because that would've been harder)

[lament lark]

No there wasnt

it was an exploit

you could bypass the name checking entirely

if you uploaded the file in a certain way

but as such, these emotes are entirely invalid because the current system doesn't care about the name of the emote per say

it just cares about the name the channel has the emote added as

which by default is the name of the emote

so it wont let you add it unless you alias it as something else

... -> Custom Name -> enter -> add

[unborn flume]

what ever

[weak yoke]

remember this emote
https://7tv.app/emotes/611934f54a20425cff0638d0

dont actually add it
cant be removed from your emote set

classic supa

[unborn flume]