"I scream and yell": xQc tells Kai Cenat about his sleep problems and why he can't do a subathon

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On yesterday's stream, Felix "xQc" revealed that he could not host an all-night subathon stream because of his sleeping problems. The Canadian streaming giant was on a Discord call with recent Twitch sensation Kai Cenat (who recently crossed the 100K sub mark) when he was asked the question.

Describing his night terrors to Kai Cenat, Felix explained that he has trouble sleeping and has no intention of broadcasting his night-time problems to an audience. While talking about the problem, the streamer described them as follows:

For the uninitiated, subathons or subscriber marathons are long streams where streamers will keep streaming for a set duration of time (or uncapped) for maybe a day or longer, even while they sleep. Some may have special rules, such as Ludwig Ahgren's 30-day subathon back in 2021, where he increased the stream duration with every new subscriber.

Sleep streams are also not that uncommon, with many creators on Twitch setting up their cameras so that the audience can watch them sleep. Some might even let fans redeem channel points to wake the streamer with noise or other contraptions.

Subathons generally last longer than a day, and xQc's streams are already very long, with the streamer regularly crossing 8+ hours. For example, according to SullyGnome, he streamed a total of 291 hours in the month of August. This comes down to an impressive 9.4 hours of streaming time every day. He told Kai Cenat that one of the reasons for not doing a subathon was his already long streaming hours:

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However, xQc did reveal that he had been wanting to do subathon for a year but avoided doing it due to sleep problems:

When Kai Cenat asked him to elaborate, xQc explained that he has night terrors and that he