Welcome Your Chatters as Elves at the Bottom of Your Stream

Invite chat to the holiday gathering as a crowd of elves. Elf Avatars for Stream represents your chatters with characters of different shapes and sizes, hanging out along the bottom of the broadcast. It is a free way to give the audience a visible place in a Christmas-themed show while your main content stays in view.

The appeal is the community presence. Instead of leaving all audience participation in the chat panel, the overlay puts characters into the scene itself. That makes it a fitting choice for a seasonal catch-up where you are talking with regulars, welcoming new arrivals, or simply spending an evening together.

Two commands for joining the moment

Viewers can use !dance to make their elf dance on screen. They can also use !wave to make the elf wave. Those two actions give you straightforward ways to involve the room during the broadcast without asking viewers to learn a long command list.

For a holiday community stream, invite everyone to wave as you welcome them. A dance can suit a celebration or a shared joke during the evening. You decide how to work those moments into the show; the overlay supplies the on-screen actions rather than a separate set of game rules or a competition.

The elves come in different shapes and sizes, which gives the group its visual character. Their position along the bottom makes the overlay a companion to the broadcast rather than a full-screen replacement for it. Consider that lower area when arranging the rest of your scene so the audience presence has a clear place to sit.

A seasonal audience across platforms

Elf Avatars works with Twitch, YouTube Live, Kick, and TikTok Live. Meld brings chat from the four platforms into your broadcast, making the overlay suitable for a holiday show with viewers joining from more than one destination.

You might use it throughout a Christmas variety night or keep it for a dedicated community segment. In a camera-led conversation, the characters can accompany your greetings. During gaming, check that the lower edge of the scene has enough room beside the interface and any information viewers need to read.

Preview the complete scene before the gathering starts, then decide when you want to invite a wave or a dance. Download Meld Studio and add Elf Avatars to your canvas for the seasonal broadcast. Streamers continuing with an existing OBS layout can use Spark Plug for OBS as the alternative path to the same gallery overlay.

Use cases

• Holiday community gatherings

  Bring a Christmas theme to a community catch-up by showing chatters as elves. Invite a wave when you greet the audience or a dance during a celebratory moment in the conversation.

• Seasonal variety gaming

  Keep a visible place for your audience during a holiday gaming night. Elves hang out along the bottom of the stream while viewers use !dance and !wave to join in.

Chat commands

Frequently asked questions