I Need Help With A Toggable Chat Tag Script!

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You should really start to switch now. It’s getting removed soon.

Make a RemoteEvent inside of ReplicatedStorage. Call it “ToggleChatTag”.

Make a ScreenGui in StarterGui. Then, add a TextButton or ImageButton inside of it.
After that, add a LocalScript into the button.

Insert this code into it.

local RemoteEvent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").ToggleChatTag
local toggled = false

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	toggled = not toggled
	RemoteEvent:FireServer("BIG FAN", toggled) -- replace "BIG FAN" with your tag text
end)

This is the client part done. It sends an event over whenever the player wants the chat tag.

Now, we need to make the server-side give the player the tag.
We also need to verify if it is a tag that is toggleable.

To do this, add a normal Script into ServerScriptService.
Here is the code that will make it work:

local ChatService = require(game:GetService("ServerScriptService"):WaitForChild("ChatServiceRunner").ChatService)
local RemoteEvent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").ToggleChatTag

local ToggleableTags = {
	"BIG FAN"
}

local function CheckTableEquality(t1,t2)
	for i,v in next, t1 do if t2[i]~=v then return false end end
	for i,v in next, t2 do if t1[i]~=v then return false end end
	return true
end

RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, name, enabled)
	if table.find(ToggleableTags, name) then
		local speaker = ChatService:GetSpeaker(plr.Name)
		
		local tags = speaker.ExtraData.Tags
		local tag = {TagText = name, TagColor = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)}
		
		if enabled then
			table.insert(tags, tag)
			speaker:SetExtraData("Tags", tags)
		else
			for i,v in pairs(tags) do
				if CheckTableEquality(v, tag) == true then
					table.remove(tags, i)
					break
				end
			end
			speaker:SetExtraData("Tags", tags)
		end
	end
end)

The CheckTableEquality function was taken from here.

The ChatService is what lets you add chat tags on Legacy Chat.
Whenever a player fires the remote event, we check if the tag is toggleable. This is to stop exploiters from adding their own tags.

If it is found, we get the player’s old tags.
Then, if we want it to be on, we add the tag onto that list and apply it.
If we want it to be off, we remove it from the list and apply the list.

This is very different in TextChatService.
This does not support colours, although I can help you add that as it is quite easy to do.

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