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Add a chat box overlay to OBS in about two minutes using a Browser source — no StreamElements or Streamlabs account, no plugins, nothing to install.
Your OBS browser source is blank, black or frozen. Here are the eight causes that explain nearly every case, in the order worth checking them.
You do not need a StreamElements or Streamlabs account to put chat on your stream. Here is how a self-contained chat overlay works and how to set one up.
Streamlabs Desktop adds overlays the same way OBS does — through a browser source. Here is the exact process, plus the two settings that differ.
Recolour a chat box or overlay to match your channel branding in a couple of clicks, and pick colours that stay readable on top of gameplay.
Put YouTube Live chat on screen in OBS, and run Twitch and YouTube chat side by side in one overlay if you multistream.