no it’s just a coincidence
I can go into my own chat, send a message and the ----NEW---- line appears but not my own message.
You should also enable raw debugging to see if you are getting any error messages back, that TMI.js is not handling/displaying to you
Like for example, if the chat is in “follower only mode” and the bot doesn’t follow the channel, that’ll be the issue, and modding the bot bypasses the follower restriction