Canadian Félix “xQc” Lengyel (27) is at the forefront of the gaming streamer scene on twitch and kick. He is said to have signed a $100 million deal with Kick, and Twitch subscriptions alone bring in around €120,000 a month. But apparently he can’t share his happiness with anyone.
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xQc was able to keep relationship private for 1 month and everything was cool
These are the downsides of success: As it turned out, his third romantic relationship with a colleague broke up within a relatively short time.
The problem: Every relationship that xQc enters into is viewed critically by its fans.
The fans have the feeling that when xQc is in a relationship, he doesn’t stream as often as usual. Some viewers turn out to be abusive: A partner at his side even reported stalking and nighttime burglaries in his house.
The most recent relationship was with a content creator for Overwatch known as Fran. But this relationship also became public and could not withstand the pressure.
When the relationship broke in June, xQc was already annoyed by the fact that this time he had “done a good job” of keeping the relationship under the radar.
Everyone also advises him that if you don’t want “parasocial behavior from the fans”, you have to keep relationships private.
But he only managed to do that for a month, then the relationship became public “in a violent way,” he says.
As soon as the relationship became known, the fans split their mouths
His partner had made the relationship public on her Instagram channel (via reddit) in June 2023 after rumors circulated. As reported by the Dexerto site, xQc’s fans once again proved to be “critical” of the new girlfriend and commented negatively on the relationship – on reddit and in the Twitch chat:
“Like I’m somehow radiating something bad around me”
This is how it broke down: xQc has now announced at the end of July 2023 that he and Fran are no longer together. They separated by mutual consent.
That didn’t go so well either: xQc says he once said in the stream that Fran was no longer here and hadn’t informed her about it beforehand. She was caught off guard.
She tried to keep up the facade, but they haven’t been together for a while.
xQc says the signs for a relationship just aren’t good:
Yeah, there are too many parts moving right now and it’s just too much. I wish everything was a lot easier, but it isn’t. And I don’t think things will get any easier any time soon. I’m really tired of causing so much damage around me. It seems like everyone around me is suffering badly and I feel like I’m radiating something bad. I have to take a break first.
what does he mean with that? xQc seems to have a lot of young fans who are very focused on him and can’t handle having to share his attention with a woman.
The way in which his former partner Adept is taken apart and portrayed as a mixture of vampire and gold digger shows how caustic his fans react to people around him. This probably means the “damage” that he radiates around himself.
Any partner who engages in xQc is totally in the focus of these fans the moment the relationship is revealed.
Is there a partnership between streamers who can stand it? Yes, there are some well-known streamer couples that seem to be solid. The main thing seems to be that the relationship is part of the streamer’s identity and is accepted as such by the fans.
Couples like Ludwig/QTCinderella or Tyler1/Macailya are known, although the women have to put up with a lot. QTCinderella once shared how she suffered from being introduced as “Ludwig’s girlfriend”: When Ludwig said he was hungry on his stream, people would tell her on her stream to make him a sandwich.
There are also power couples in the scene like Ninja and Jessica Blevins or Doublelift and Leena Xu who are tight-knit and where such dynamics don’t seem to matter.
Apparently, when someone who’s been single for a long time and has made being single part of their image part of their image suddenly shows up with a partner, it’s difficult for fans — as in the case of Asmongold. Then fans said: They could no longer identify with him. They wanted the MMORPG streamer to be “lonely and miserable” like themselves. MMORPG streamer Asmongold had a relationship with a streamer in 2019 that was widely discussed.
On the other hand, extroverted streamers like HasanAbi are constantly suspected of being in a relationship with one or the other streamer.
Some successful streamers seem to keep their personal lives completely out of the public eye. Amouranth even hid a husband for years:
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