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xQc's fans are keen on making memes of him. He is also actively involved in the community and reacts to entertain viewers with his memes.

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xQc Reacts to Memes Made by Viewers - Reddit Recap #140 | xQcOW

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This daily vlog represented an image of xQc who is a very humble person and truly cares about his friends.

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Behind the Stream: Inside the Life of xQc

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Redmond, S. (2014) Celebrity and the media. Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

xQc achieved the esports star position in the Overwatch World Cup through his skill. This enables him as a Twitch streamer to gain followers and also provide social cohesion and collective meaning.

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As one of the biggest star of esports and streaming, the streaming platform, Kick, provided a huge deal for xQc to move to stream on Kick. Kick's attempt to attract users by signing up xQc reflected the economy value of celebrities.

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Twitch Star xQc Signs $100 Million Deal With Kick, a Rival Platform

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The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes' contracts, and is another sign of Twitch's tense relationship with its top streamers.

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Gies, L. (2011) ‘Stars Behaving Badly: Inequality and transgression in celebrity culture’, Feminist Media Studies, 11(3), pp. 347–361. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2010.535319.

Downfalls and disgraces are mainstream in celebrity narratives, while celebrities' bad habits or scandals are more likely to be tolerated by viewers.

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There is no denying that these rumours have brought him a lot of discussion and attention from internet users, but at the same time, they have also had a negative impact on his star image.

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During a recent steaming, xQc revealed his relationship with his head moderator.

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On June 3, Fran, also an Overwatch streamer, publicly announced that she and xQc were together. But in August, xQc admitted he cheated.

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On 3 Nov 2022, he announced his affair with NYYXXII, a British streamer, while they broke up on 17 Nov 2022.

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Fans' reactions to the case that Adept sues for 'divorce'. A fan 'Bro got a divorce case without even getting married crazy'. The court denied Adept's request for financial support.

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XQC and Adept divorce case sealed. No more public information. Trial moved to June

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997 votes, 86 comments. 2.4m members in the LivestreamFail community. The place for all things livestreaming.

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xQc and Adept are both streamers. They previously split in August 2021 but were publicly back together by December of the same year. In the second breakup, they clashed in a livestream on September 15, arguing with one another about their former relationship in front of an audience of about 125,000 viewers.

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xQc's Instagram looks different from his images in streaming. He acts very formal in these photos, completely different from the funny images in live streamings.

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His speak-without-thinking personality has also brought him a lot of gossip, especially when it comes to his personal life

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He still streams for more than 12 hours a day most of the time. His controversies, energetic and competitive spirit, and funny performances in streaming made him famous.

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xQc Challenges a Trash-Talking Teammate To a 1v1

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xQc is not shy about showing his personal life in streamings, even though showing his bad habits. It also makes his star image authentic.

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There are only so many hours in the day and when you're a capital-S streamer, most of them are dedicated to grinding battle pass levels in whatever new live-service game just dropped or reacting to all the latest internet drama to thousands of chatters. As such, there isn't always time to clean up after yourself, and you're left wading through the detritus of your own sloppiness like a pig in a pen. This is exactly the case for Twitch star Félix "xQc" Lengyel, who grossed viewers out in a recent livestream after showing how "disgusting" his messy, odd-smelling room has become.

Félix "xQc" Lengyel is a household name on Amazon's livestreaming platform. With over 11 million followers and more than 525 million total channel views, the former Overwatch League pro is often lauded as the King of Twitch. Whenever he goes live, xQc regularly pulls in upwards of 50-70,000 viewers during his multi-hour streams (though Avalanche Studios' recently saw him attract over 100,000 viewers). That's to say, xQc is one of Twitch's top-performing streamers, currently only being beaten out by rising star who's doing a month-long livestreaming subscriber marathon. Anyway, when you're as active on Twitch as xQc is, apparently everything else takes a backseat, including your room's cleanliness.

Read More: Pokimane's Immaculate Room Tour Has Twitch Streamers Showing Off Their Messy Bedrooms

Frequent xQc viewers are already familiar with his habits. Often leaving crumpled wrappers and half-eaten food all over the place, xQc regularly gets dragged by the internet for "living like a college student getting a grocery allowance from mom," as one Redditor quoted in a July 2021 Kotaku story about messy streamer rooms put it. Well, xQc is again living up to that description. In a 17-hour livestream on February 15, xQc kicked off the broadcast by panning the camera to his trashed desk littered with empty Gatorade bottles, old Starbucks coffee cups, and lots of napkins.

"It's not even that bad," xQc said. "It's been like a couple of days. I don't like adding stuff here [right next to my keyboard]. The ground is bad, but it's not bad-bad. There's so much fucking, like, crusted-up [stuff] under my feet, it smells just...odd. It doesn't smell that bad. If it smelled bad I'd give a fuck, but it smells unidentified. Like, coffee, Coke, Sprite-when it mixes up together and it smells like one thing, it smells like fucking dog shit. But it's not a bad dog shit, it's like a weird one. It's just weird. It also just smells like chemicals."

These are the living conditions of Twitch's most-popular streamer. Folks in Dexerto's mentions, however, are confused about how anyone could put up with this. One Twitter user "it's not that hard to buy a bin to put your rubbish in," suggesting that the platform's parent company, Amazon, sells one. Another that xQc's so rich he should just "get a maid." Even the official PowerWash Simulator account it was coming to help out. Most everyone agrees, though, that xQc's room is "disgusting."

Kotaku reached out to xQc for comment.

While Amazon's livestreaming platform often incentives broadcasters to stream for ungodly amounts of time to make the revenue worth the effort, it probably couldn't hurt xQc to take a moment or two to clean up a little bit. Everyone's got to get their bag, but no one wants it to smell like garbage.

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Twitch Star xQc Horrifies World With Messy, Smelly Room (Again)

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Félix Lengyel said his 'disgusting' room sometimes smells like dog shit and chemicals

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He was at the same time a kind person who spent times and made a lot of donations to charity.

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He's always thinking outside the box, both in streaming and on a daily basis.

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We stream on Twitch (almost) every day 8am-12CST ▶ https://twitch.tv/nmplol (not Tuesdays) ▶ Nick's Socials:https://twitter.com/nmplolhttps://instagram.com/n...

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He demonstrated many bad habits in streaming, such as gambling, which reflected the authentic but problematic star image.

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xQc reveals how much money he lost from gambling

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Even when his life got out of control he was optimistic in front of the camera and engaged audiences through humour.

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xQc jokes about losing his car and house to his Ex

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Baltezarević, R., Baltezarević, V. and Baltezarević, I. (2023) ‘The Role of Digital Marketing in the Esports Industry’, Acta Ludologica, 6(1), pp. 28–45. Available at: https://doi.org/10.34135/actaludologica.2023-6-1.28-45.

The esports audience is considered extremely engaged and loyal. Platforms promoted per se through esports stars can also lead to high production costs and high promotion costs like culture industries.

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After quitting the Overwatch League, xQc made rapid progress in his streaming career. He began to stream more games and chatting, not just Overwatch.

In December 2019, he emerged as Twitch's most-watched streamer, accumulating nearly eight million hours of watch time. Overall, he ranked as the sixth-most watched streamer of the year, accumulating nearly 54 million hours of watch time.

xQc was the most watched Twitch streamer of 2021, with 109M more Hours Watched than second place.

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‘I blame myself’: A fallen e-sports star reflects on video gaming’s image problems

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‘I blame myself’: A fallen e-sports star reflects on video gaming’s image problems

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The interview represented xQc's energetic figure and always doing crazy things. He was not actually as 'retard' as he showed in streaming, instead actively integrating himself into the culture of Twitch. He also said in the interview that he had many audiences supporting him.

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He still displayed a great deal of authentic 'retard' personality during the streamings with outrageous behaviours.

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xQc shows off his  GOLDEN MVP TROPHY w/ CHAT

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He showed his personality in his streams with his booming moves and energetic personality. He has a strong personality and great gaming skills, but as a newcomer to live streaming, there are a lot of people like this on twitch and he lacks the opportunity to get noticed.

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Until 28 October 2023, he has close to 12 million followers on Twitch and 2.32 million followers on YouTube.

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Represented Team Canada in the Overwatch World Cup from 2017 to 2019.

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Represented Team Canada in the Overwatch World Cup from 2017 to 2019.

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He was a successful esports player. His superb gaming skills also continued to bring him audiences.

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xQc in his teammates' view

The all-around energetic, funny, and 'crazy' dude.

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Dallas Fuel Players - xQc (Félix Lengyel) | Overwatch World Cup 2017 MVP, streamer, and all-around energetic dude. Here's xQc. Welcome to the jungle 🦍 | By Dallas Fuel | Facebook

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Overwatch World Cup 2017 MVP, streamer, and all-around energetic dude. Here's xQc. Welcome to the jungle 🦍

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xQc eventually parted ways with the Dallas Fuel in 2018. He began focusing more and more on his streaming career.

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In January 2018, xQc was hit with a suspension after making flaming homophobic remarks against rival player Austin “Muma” Wilmot of the Houston Outlaws.
Shortly after, in March 2018, he was slapped again with a suspension after claims of misusing social media to make disparaging comments against Overwatch League casters.

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Esports star fallen but streaming star raising

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Esports star fallen but streaming star raising

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xQc was named to the Canadian Overwatch National Team in June 2017 and began representing Canada in international tournaments.

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On October 28th, 2017, xQc joined the Overwatch League team Dallas Fuel and became a player in top league matches. In Dallas Fuel, he was known for his aggressive tank play.

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In 2018, xQc and teammates exposed this gaming organization's missing payment scandals. He showed his care for his friends and represented his outspoken character.

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The beginning of esports career - semi-professional player 

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The beginning of esports career - semi-professional player 

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In the summer of 2016, he began his professional gaming career by joining DatZit Gaming, a semi-professional esports organization. In August of the same year, he held the Overwatch trophy for the first time, winning the 2016 DreamHack Montreal Overwatch tournament with his teammates.

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After the videogame, Overwatch, released by Blizzard Entertainment, He played and discovered he was very good at this game. Performing high-level plays regularly, xQc’s Overwatch skills soon began attracting attention from people in high places.

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xQc was a Twitch streamer who streamed the League of Legends on Twitch before he began to play Overwatch. He wasn't famous at the time, but he was streaming intensely for 12 hours a day.

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He achieved his best international result in 2017, making it all the way to the final of the tournament and getting named the event’s most valuable player.

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His out-of-control personality, which made him so popular, was a double-edged sword. His fans love his toxic gamer image but it also led to him receiving disciplinary action easily. Ultimately, his thriving esports career ended in an instant.

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The beginning of esports career - professional player 

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The beginning of esports career - professional player 

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In October of 2016, xQc began his professional Overwatch gaming career. With his reputation as a top Overwatch player secured, xQc was soon picked up by Denial eSports.

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xQc Reacts to The Controversial History of Denial Esports: Four Years of Scandal Explained | xQcOW

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xQc is a Canadian online streamer and former professional Overwatch player. His esports career began in 2016. After his departure from Dallas Fuel in 2018, he became a full-time streamer on Twitch.