Lead Moderator

Technical identity

lead-moderator:1

Overview

The Lead Moderator badge is a historical Twitch global chat badge technical identity that briefly used the hyphenated set ID lead-moderator:1 before Twitch replaced it with lead_moderator:1.

Historical status

This historical set ID appeared on 8 December 2025 and was replaced within about one and a half hours. The historical identity is no longer returned by the current Global Chat Badges endpoint.

Identity transition

Twitch's current catalogue uses lead_moderator:1 with the display title Lead Moderator. The successor remains in current Helix as a platform moderation badge.

Campaign relationship

The underlying Lead Moderator badge continued under the successor set ID. See the current Lead Moderator page for Twitch's retained Helix description.

Current successor

Twitch's current catalogue uses Lead Moderator (lead_moderator:1).