The Canadian Félix “xQc” Lengyel is the largest and most successful streamer on Twitch platform. He is distinguished, among other things, by his exceptionally lively language. Viewers could now experience xQc in full glory as a viewer dared to suggest that he was not working enough.
Who is xQc?
- At just 26 years old, Félix Lengyel began his career as a rather talented eSports player in Blizzard’s Overwatch. However, he ruined all his chances there because he was a hothead who regularly exploded and insulted people fiercely. In his defense, he said: He is just a child of the Twitch chat, who raised him. What did people actually expect from him?
- After being kicked out of his team, xQc became a full-time streamer on Twitch. The previous big names shroud and Ninja had left the platform for greener pastures, and xQc exploded into a superstar of the platform within a few months. In December 2019, he was the largest streamer for the first time.
- xQc shaped a new kind of streaming: he did not specialize in one game, it was not so much about gaming, but rather about a constant engagement with the chat and a continuous reaction to everything his viewers found exciting. xQc took every trend he could find and even created some Twitch trends himself. Since the end of 2019, xQc has repeatedly been the most-watched streamer in the world, also because he racks up so many hours.
xQc is naturally also involved in the major Twitch bans:
“You are just a part-time streamer”
Why did xQc yell at a viewer?xQc is known for his extremely long streams. It happens repeatedly that he is on air for more than 20 hours without interruption. Occasionally, even he takes a day off, like on Sunday, February 20th.
Promptly, he heard from a viewer: “xQc was just a part-time streamer.”
This made xQc furious, and he fell into a one-minute rage outburst. This demonstrates well the unique way xQc speaks, which is a large part of his distinctive style.
The largest Twitch streamer in the world in full swing
This is what makes xQc’s strange charm: In his outburst, xQc uses the words “Bitch” and “Fuck You” like punctuation marks to strengthen and structure his argument. He gestures wildly with his hands and repeatedly reiterates individual sentence parts as if he needed to restart. He asks the question “Who is you?” four times in a row.
He also gets worked up about the situation and makes strange jumps in logic. He tends to exaggerate slightly: he claims that in a “free week” he works one and a half times more than others in their normal office jobs.
Moreover, he accuses the viewer of only attending a “part-time school” with perhaps 8-10 hours a week and not even completing all classes there.
Also typical for him: xQc changes his speech pattern to illustrate how others supposedly talk about him. This results in an almost completely incomprehensible mumble to make clear: some idiots would say that streaming is not real work.
He really gets angry when he talks about his own work. He claims it is harder than any normal job. After all, outside of his streams, he “thinks, stews over streaming theory, and works creatively.” In the process, he invents two words, “theoretingling” and “creativeling,” which the English language does not know but are somehow understandable.
The show ends with him embellishing his outburst with Star Wars sounds; “Boom” “Pff-Crack,” as if an Ewok were describing how a spaceship crashed.
His chat, in any case, is greatly entertained by the performance. That’s what they are there for.
xQc repeatedly ranks among the world’s largest streamers on Twitch:
