How xQc is taking over Twitch streaming charts despite declining viewership
Streaming phenomenon Felix "xQc" took back his throne as the most-watched streamer on Twitch despite declining viewership on his main channel. After a couple of months of being second in the line, the Canadian streamer smashed the competition to become the King of Twitch for the July 2022 charts, surpassing some of the biggest names in the streaming landscape.
Even though xQc has been banned on Twitch five times, there is no denying the fact that he has built an admirable fanbase for himself over the past couple of years.
Anyone familiar with Twitch is aware of the platform's shining star Felix Lengyel, better known as xQc, by his loyal fanbase. Although it's been a couple of months since fans saw him at topping charts in terms of hours watched, it was only a matter of time before he returned to the top spot with a bang.
Despite suffering a loss of 30.5% in peak viewership numbers as well as a 6.4% drop in terms of average viewers, the Twitch streamer managed to hit the top spot with nearly 18.4 million hours watched. The decline in viewership was mainly due to the number of technical problems, plaguing him throughout July 2022.
Valorant fame Tarik took second place with over 9.71 million hours watched thanks to his watch parties for Valorant Masters Copenhagen that brought in a wave of new viewers to his channel and streams. The official Twitch channel of ESL CS:GO took the third spot, with over 9.64 million hours of content watched by fans.
The rest of the list features many known faces of the streaming platform, including Japanese streamer Chikara "fps_shaka", Ibai "ibai", AdinRoss, and many more. Ibai, unfortunately, saw a drastic fall in his hours watched (68.9%) after his record-breaking performance in the month of June
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