xQc Responds To Concerns

Twitch celebrity Felix “xQc” addressed worries about his audience being “hateful and antagonistic” toward the LGBTQIA+ community on June 12, 2023.

The streamer stumbled upon a post by Redditor u/Connect_Ruin2050 that had garnered a lot of attention when browsing through submissions on his own subreddit. They mentioned that they had been subscribers to xQc for seven months and that they had last viewed his livestream on June 11, 2023. The Redditor claims that they have “never seen” a place that is so angry and hostile. They continued by saying they had received threats to their lives because they had used the Trans Pride and Queer Pride emotes in the chat room. A passage from their post is as follows: “I have never seen a more hateful and hostile environment towards its own members than during talk with Hasan. Death threats in msgs for posting TransPride/QueerPride emotes only. As a member of the LGBT+ community, and an actual survivor of child s*x abuse, early education in school would have helped me understand what was happening to me and report/stop the situation.”

In response, xQc said that his Twitch chat attacks him if “something incorrect” occurs to him. But he claimed that anytime he repeats himself, his viewers criticize him. The French-Canadian said after implying that his audience couldn’t have it “both ways”: “That is a disaster! It’s hypocritical. It’s because I wasn’t spewing hate. I… bro, I wasn’t doing s**t!”

When xQc came across the aforementioned Reddit discussion earlier today, he was two hours into his program. After reading it, the content creator was perplexed and addressed the issues by saying: “Wait, wait, wait! Hold up! I thought that chat reflects streamers. Every time that I do… any time that something wrong happens, chat says… anything wrong that happens to me – when people insult me, chat says, ‘Shout out to the streamer.’ But, when someone insults them, it’s my fault!”

The former Overwatch pro then said that his Twitch chat community couldn’t have it “both ways” at this point: “Chat, I’m about to tell you guys how it is. Okay, chat? You cannot have it both ways! You just can’t! If people are saying the most unhinged s**t at me… and you guys say, ‘He deserves it because chat reflects streamer.’ But now, when people attack chat, you guys say it is my fault, that is f**king brain-dead!”

A short while afterwards, xQc claimed that his behavior toward his audience was not “hateful and stupid”: “I wasn’t hateful. I wasn’t being stupid. I didn’t say dumb s**t. Like… (the streamer starts reading comments posted under the Reddit thread).”