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In this sense, "chat" is just a second person plural pronoun
Yeah it's substitutable for "y'all" in the sample usage.
Or if you use proper english, "you," which is both singular and plural. Many languages have a specific second person plural, such as the Spanish ustedes (or vosotros in Spain and speaking informally), so those could be directly substituted for "chat."
A fourth person, if it exists, would have to somehow refer to a "nothing" without giving it an entity, because that's the only gap between first, second, and third person pronouns.
Proper English would use thee/thou as singular and you as plural. Royal we, excepting. Or maybe royal we is the 4th person since you are speaking as yourself but more as a representing some other entity? I dunno this 4th person thing is confusing me …