There are solely so many hours within the day and while you’re a capital-S streamer, most of them are devoted to grinding battle go ranges in no matter new live-service recreation simply dropped or reacting to all the newest web drama to 1000’s of chatters. As such, there isn’t at all times time to scrub up after your self, and also you’re left wading by way of the detritus of your individual sloppiness like a pig in a pen. That is precisely the case for Twitch star Félix “xQc” Lengyel, who grossed viewers out in a current livestream after displaying how “disgusting” his messy, odd-smelling room has grow to be.
Félix “xQc” Lengyel is a family title on Amazon’s livestreaming platform. With over 11 million followers and greater than 525 million whole channel views, the previous Overwatch League professional is commonly lauded because the King of Twitch. At any time when he goes stay, xQc repeatedly pulls in upwards of 50-70,000 viewers throughout his multi-hour streams (although Avalanche Studios’ Hogwarts Legacy just lately noticed him appeal to over 100,000 viewers). That’s to say, xQc is one in every of Twitch’s top-performing streamers, presently solely being crushed out by rising star Kai Cenat who’s doing a month-long livestreaming subscriber marathon. Anyway, while you’re as energetic on Twitch as xQc is, apparently every part else takes a backseat, together with your room’s cleanliness.
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Frequent xQc viewers are already aware of his habits. Usually leaving crumpled wrappers and half-eaten meals in every single place, xQc repeatedly will get dragged by the web for “dwelling like a university scholar getting a grocery allowance from mother,” as one Redditor quoted in a July 2021 Kotaku story about messy streamer rooms put it. Effectively, xQc is once more dwelling as much as that description. In a 17-hour livestream on February 15, xQc kicked off the published by panning the digicam to his trashed desk suffering from empty Gatorade bottles, outdated Starbucks espresso cups, and plenty of napkins.
“It’s not even that unhealthy,” xQc stated. “It’s been like a few days. I don’t like including stuff right here [right next to my keyboard]. The bottom is unhealthy, however it’s not bad-bad. There’s a lot fucking, like, crusted-up [stuff] underneath my ft, it smells simply…odd. It doesn’t scent that unhealthy. If it smelled unhealthy I’d give a fuck, however it smells unidentified. Like, espresso, Coke, Sprite—when it mixes up collectively and it smells like one factor, it smells like fucking canine shit. Nevertheless it’s not a nasty canine shit, it’s like a bizarre one. It’s simply bizarre. It additionally simply smells like chemical compounds.”
These are the dwelling situations of Twitch’s most-popular streamer. People in Dexerto’s mentions, nonetheless, are confused about how anybody may put up with this. One Twitter person said “it’s not that tough to purchase a bin to place your garbage in,” suggesting that the platform’s guardian firm, Amazon, sells one. One other joked that xQc’s so wealthy he ought to simply “get a maid.” Even the official PowerWash Simulator account said it was coming to assist out. Most everybody agrees, although, that xQc’s room is “disgusting.”
Kotaku reached out to xQc for remark.
Whereas Amazon’s livestreaming platform typically incentives broadcasters to stream for ungodly quantities of time to make the income definitely worth the effort, it most likely couldn’t harm xQc to take a second or two to scrub up a bit bit. Everybody’s acquired to get their bag, however nobody needs it to scent like rubbish.