@DallasNChains @tournymasterbotCurse I know at this point we’ve almost given up on trying to figure out what’s wrong, but I did find something relatively useful.
https://www.websocket.org/echo.html - This site allows me to connect to servers and test it. I connected to the Twitch server, and tried sending the message I was trying to send, and it didn’t work. I received nothing in return. However… I did receive a PONG, when I sent the PING json message. So the server is definitely responding, and as far as I can tell, the connection is remaining active. So all I can think of is that somehow, my message is formatted incorrectly. I tried sending the example message on the documentation page, expecting an error at least, and got nothing in reply. So I’m not sure if it actually works with the LISTEN command, but it’s a step closer, right? I hope this helps, sort of 
Thanks,
Mike