Nightbot

Nightbot is one of the most popular chat bots in use on Twitch. It is active in thousands of channels and assists streamers, viewers, and moderators with common tasks. Gatorbox is one of the many channels employing the use of Nightbot.

Due to a general lack of programming knowledge in the languages Nightbot most commonly interfaces with Gatorbox's instance of the bot unintentionally became a negative inside joke. Nightbot is set up to remind viewers that they can follow Gatorbox on Twitch, subscribe on YouTube, and also download the FrankerFaceZ browser extension in order to make use of the channel's 100 custom emoticons. The issue is the timers that make sure Nightbot isn't annoying don't seem to work and often times the bot will spit out more than one of the reminders at a time when it's only supposed to post one of them every 30 minutes. While this was being worked on viewers took a liking to copying the exact phrasing of Nightbot's reminders and repeating them back in chat once Nightbot posts.

Notable commands

• ^ - Automatically responds to the user with two carats, "^^". Responding to a chat message with a carat is a common way of saying "I agree with this post". Additional users who agree with the post may follow up by responding to the single carat with two, and then three, and so on. Nightbot will immediately attempt to start a carat train by posting two, usually prompting someone else to respond to Nightbot with three. This is the most used command on the channel by a significant margin.
• !add - Added during the production of Your Level Sucks 2 specifically to catch "drive-by" chat spammers who would post codes to their shitty levels expecting the streamer to have a scraping tool that was collecting codes for them to play later and thus receive free exposure. Upon using "!add" Nightbot would activate and immediately disregard everything following the command (such as a level code) and respond to the user with a stern "No".
• !b - Posts the 🅱️ emoji.
• !whitebalance - Posts a block of white squares into the chat. This command's response is meant to be very attention-getting to let Draco know that the automatic white balance on the stream camera is causing the video feed to adopt an ugly tint, a setting that keeps resetting itself without making it obvious this has happened.

As time has marched on Nightbot's tendency to spam chat has been reined in and legitimately useful commands have been added to its internal list, though there are still plenty of joke commands for viewers to discover.