Félix “xQc” Lengyel was the absolute number 1 on Twitch for years. He streamed almost daily and often for many hours at a time. That didn’t leave much time for leisure activities like doing laundry, which is why the streamer quickly stocked up on new T-shirts.
Which streamer are we talking about? Former Overwatch pro Félix “xQc” Lengyel was long the undisputed number 1 on Twitch. Since his million-dollar deal with the rival site Kick, however, he has been splitting his time between the platforms.
On Twitch, the Canadian has since suffered quite a bit. xQc is currently ranked a distant 68th among the most-watched streamers worldwide (via SullyGnome). Nevertheless, his streams still attract tens of thousands of viewers – and they could hardly believe what they heard in a recent stream.
Better to buy 100 new T-shirts than to do laundry once
What was it with the T-shirts? In a conversation with a friend, xQc admitted to having bought T-shirts in bulk before, so he wouldn’t have to do laundry. He bought 100 new shirts at once and simply kept switching them. However, some of them he ended up wearing for up to a week straight.
While this doesn’t quite compare to his colleague Asmongold, who wears his T-shirts until they practically fall off him, it still raised some eyebrows – but don’t worry, the streamer had a reasoning behind it:
I calculated this, okay, and based on the price of T-shirts and how much time I had to spend on that damn laundry, I thought it would be mathematically cheaper to wear a different T-shirt every day and not wash laundry.
What happened to the T-shirts? Here xQc puts worries to rest: Instead of just throwing away the worn shirts, he of course donated them. However, his buddy is only partially convinced: “Wait a minute, you wore a T-shirt for seven days and then donated it? You probably made someone sick.”
The streamer couldn’t quite understand this accusation: “What, they wash them, don’t they?” You can check out the whole stream clip here – provided you understand xQc.
Does the math work out? This can only be estimated since xQc doesn’t go into the underlying mathematics. However, the streamer seems to assume that the time he would have to spend doing laundry is better invested in streaming.
At his peak in 2022, xQc had between 80,000 and 90,000 subs on Twitch consistently. This means he likely earned over $200,000 a month just from subscriptions. He streamed six times a week for an average of 11 hours a day (via Twitchtracker).
This results in an approximate hourly wage of $725 – with that, you can certainly buy quite a few T-shirts.
By now, however, xQc has come to realize that one can also pay someone else to do laundry for you. He didn’t know that back then.
So one has to give him credit for not simply trading in his smelly mess of a room with rotten chicken for a new one but rather hiring a cleaning crew. However, the content creator seemed to immediately regret this decision when the cleaning staff appeared on stream. The usually loquacious xQc was immediately rendered speechless, so embarrassing was the whole situation:
