- stream usage
- Streamers use it during December streams, holiday charity events, and Christmas-themed gaming sessions
- emote mapping
- Often represented by custom channel emotes like santaClap or HoHoHo; used in Twitch's official holiday emote sets
- chat meaning
- Spammed in chat during streamer giveaways, sub-a-thons, and when a streamer gives out gifts or subscriber perks
- clip context
- Appears in clips of holiday-themed stream moments, Christmas game playthroughs, and charity stream highlights
- subscriber context
- Used in gifted sub notifications and subscriber celebration messages during holiday sub-a-thon events