Félix “xQC” Lengyel is currently the largest streamer on Twitch. But with fame come problems: xQc now believes he is putting people in his circle in danger. Apparently, crazy people are showing up at his home. xQc has since left the USA and is back living in Canada. Now he is considering selling his house.
This is the situation:
- xQc has been the largest Twitch streamer in the world since 2020. The Franco-Canadian streams a lot, regularly over 10 hours a day, some streams even go up to 16 hours. His favorite game is the role-playing server for GTA 5 – though that’s not based on any mutual affection. When xQc streams, an average of 70,000 people watch him.
- However, recently things have been turbulent for xQc: He left his house, stayed with his friend Sodapoppin, and missed several streams due to “renovations” at his residence.
- Now he explains what lies behind it. He fled from his old house after there were repeated swatting incidents and a man broke in with a crowbar. By now, xQc is back living in Canada.
A man breaks into xQc’s house with a crowbar, “looking for him”
This is what xQc says about the move: The streamer says: His living situation has gotten worse over the past few months. He talks about being “swatted” regularly.
The situation reportedly worsened the more xQc spoke about it in his Twitch streams:
“When I say: My house gets a lot of SWAT calls, then exactly the opposite of what you think is going to happen occurs. It gets worse, believe it or not.”
xQc
Even now, as xQc talks about it, one can tell that he is not speaking as fluently as usual. He says it is “very personal.”
The peak of the mess was reached when a man broke into his house:
“The swatting increased, and then a person broke into my old house with a crowbar. Apparently, he was looking for me. At that point, I thought: Holy shit, this is really crazy.”
xQc
xQc doesn’t know the man’s motives. It was said that the man claimed, “xQc owed him something” – but for the Twitch streamer, it is incomprehensible what that could have been. He doesn’t even understand what the man wanted from him.
xQc considers selling house – Just wants to have fun
This is how it went for him: After he had to flee from the old house, xQc stayed with his friend Sodapoppin, also a Twitch streamer. But it didn’t last long.
xQc says: Even there, “weird stuff” happened after a short time:
“I felt it was unfair to everyone around me that I was putting them in danger.”
xQc
xQc is considering selling his old house now and starting anew elsewhere. He says he just wants to have peace, not worry anymore, and stream in peace.
He left the USA a few weeks ago, dismantled his setup in Austin, Texas, and is back in his home country of Canada.
Big streamers struggle with problems when their location becomes known
This is what’s behind it: Recently, there have been increasing horror stories of confused individuals breaking into streamers’ homes.
Apparently, the addresses of streamers are circulating in certain circles: Once the address is known, there is hardly any way to live there in peace.
Even in Germany, there are horror stories about the streamer “Drachenlord,” who lives in a village that is now regularly besieged by fans who make a sort of sightseeing event out of visiting the somewhat eccentric streamer.
In the USA, there have been stories of a confused man showing up at Pokimane’s gaming house, and the house of DrDisrespect was even shot at.
One case we reported in detail on MeinMMO: An apparently mentally disturbed man broke into the house of a female streamer who was holding a cooking show at the time. The man apparently thought he had to “rescue a princess”:
Man breaks into house of Twitch streamer to “save his princess”
