How to Get the Discord HypeSquad Badge in 2026 (After Discord Removed the Quiz)

The short version

If you opened Discord in 2026, went to User Settings → Connections, and noticed the HypeSquad tab was gone — you're not imagining it. Discord pulled the HypeSquad quiz interface this year. There's no longer an in-app way to join a HypeSquad house.

The badges themselves still work. The API endpoint that powered the quiz still works. Users who joined a house before the quiz was removed still have their badges. The only thing that's gone is the quiz UI.

To get a HypeSquad badge in 2026, you have to call the API directly. The easiest way is the free HypeSquad Switcher tool on discord.dog — drag it to your bookmarks bar, click it on discord.com, pick a house. That's it.

This post explains what happened, why the badge is still obtainable, and the three working methods (one easy, two technical) to get yours in 2026.

What happened to the HypeSquad quiz?

Until early 2026, joining HypeSquad worked like this:

1. Open Discord (desktop, mobile, or web)
2. Click the gear icon next to your username → User Settings
3. Scroll down to Connections → HypeSquad
4. Click Find My House
5. Answer five short personality questions
6. Get sorted into Bravery, Brilliance, or Balance — badge appears immediately

The whole thing took under a minute. Discord introduced it in 2018 after retiring the original HypeSquad Events program (a real-world community ambassador thing) and it stayed there largely unchanged for seven years.

In 2026, the tab disappeared. No announcement, no changelog entry — the HypeSquad option in User Settings simply stopped appearing. Existing house assignments were preserved, but the quiz UI itself was gone.

Why the quiz is gone (best guesses)

Discord didn't formally explain the removal, so anything definitive would be speculation. A few likely factors:

• HypeSquad hasn't been a strategic priority in years. The original Events program — where Discord flew community members to conventions — was shut down in 2018. The houses are vestigial: a fun badge with no functional perks.
• The quiz UI was unmaintained. The flow hadn't changed meaningfully since 2018. Removing it eliminates one more legacy code path.
• Personality-quiz mechanics have aged poorly. What felt charming in 2018 reads as quaint now.

Whatever the reason, the endpoint behind the quiz is still very much live. That's the critical detail.

The three working methods in 2026

Method 1 — The HypeSquad Switcher bookmarklet (easiest)

The discord.dog HypeSquad Switcher is a small bookmarklet — a JavaScript snippet that lives on your bookmarks bar. Click it on discord.com and a popup appears inside Discord with the three houses; click one and the badge appears on your profile.

Steps:

1. Open the HypeSquad Switcher tool page
2. Show your bookmarks bar (Ctrl+Shift+B on Windows/Linux, ⌘+⇧+B on Mac)
3. Drag the blurple "HypeSquad Switcher" button onto your bookmarks bar
4. Go to discord.com/channels/@me and log in
5. Click the new bookmark
6. A popup opens inside Discord — click Bravery, Brilliance, or Balance

The badge appears on your profile immediately. No quiz, no install, no extension. The tool calls the same API endpoint the old quiz used; from Discord's perspective the request looks identical to one the official client used to make. The popup is draggable, closeable, and the entire source code is published unminified so you can read what it does before clicking anything.

This works on any modern browser that has a bookmarks bar — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Brave. It does not work on Discord mobile or the desktop app because those don't run bookmarklets; but the badge change syncs to every Discord client once it's set.

Method 2 — Manual fetch in browser DevTools

If you don't want to use a third-party bookmarklet, you can fire the same request yourself from Discord's DevTools console. Open Discord in your browser, open DevTools (F12), go to the Console tab, and paste:

// Replace 1 with: 1 = Bravery, 2 = Brilliance, 3 = Balance
const houseId = 1;

fetch("/api/v9/hypesquad/online", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": (webpackChunkdiscord_app.push([[Symbol()], {}, r => r])
      .c.find(m => m?.exports?.default?.getToken)?.exports.default.getToken()),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ house_id: houseId }),
}).then(r => console.log(r.status === 204 ? "✅ joined house " + houseId : "❌ " + r.status));

A 204 response means you joined the house and the badge is now on your profile.

This is functionally identical to what the bookmarklet does — both read the token from Discord's webpack chunk and POST to the same endpoint. If you find the bookmarklet sketchy, this is the no-install version.

Method 3 — curl from your terminal

If you'd rather do it from a terminal, you can extract your token manually (Discord DevTools → Application → Local Storage, or use the Network tab to grab the Authorization header from any request to discord.com/api), then:

TOKEN="paste-your-token-here"
curl -X POST https://discord.com/api/v9/hypesquad/online \
  -H "Authorization: $TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"house_id": 1}'

A successful request returns no body and HTTP 204. Wrong token returns 401, malformed body returns 400.

Treat your token like a password. Don't paste it into random websites, don't commit it, don't share it. Anyone with your token can fully control your account. The bookmarklet doesn't transmit your token off your machine — it stays in the Discord browser tab where Discord put it. But if you copy-paste your token into a third-party tool, all bets are off.

Choosing a house

The houses are purely cosmetic. There are no perks, no Nitro discounts, no special channels — just a colored badge on your profile. Pick whatever you like.

House	Color	Vibe	house_id
Bravery	Purple	Daring, spirited, bold	1
Brilliance	Orange/red	Inquisitive, sharp, analytical	2
Balance	Green/teal	Calm, considerate, supportive	3

If you want to change later, just call the same endpoint with a different house_id. There's no cooldown and no limit. (Don't spam it though — switching back and forth thousands of times an hour is the kind of thing that gets accounts flagged.)

If you change your mind entirely and want the badge gone, see How to remove your HypeSquad badge in 2026.

What about the HypeSquad Events badge?

The HypeSquad badge most people think about — the colored shield from one of the three houses — is what this post covers, and it's still obtainable in 2026 through the methods above.

The HypeSquad Events badge is different. That was the original 2017 program where Discord selected community members to represent the platform at conventions and gaming events. The program was discontinued around 2018, no new members have been accepted since, and the badge has not been reissued. If you don't already have the Events badge, there's no way to get it in 2026.

Frequently asked questions

The FAQs section covers the common questions, but the short version:

• Is the badge still obtainable? Yes, via the API endpoint that powered the old quiz.
• Will I get banned? No. The endpoint is a normal Discord API call. Don't spam it.
• Does this work on mobile? Setting the badge requires the web tool. Once set, the badge shows up on every client.
• Can I get HypeSquad Events? No, that program ended in 2018.

Get the badge now

The fastest path: open discord.dog/tools/hypesquad-switcher, drag the bookmarklet, click it on Discord, pick a house. 30 seconds, no install, no quiz.

If you want to read the source first, it's all here. The whole script is under 400 lines of plain JavaScript with no minification, no obfuscation, and no external dependencies. Read every line, then click.

For the complete badge ecosystem context, see the Discord badges guide and the HypeSquad history post.