xQc pops off on gambling critics—'Get a grip of your own life before fixing mine'

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Streamer Félix Lengyel, better-known as xQc, has been for several years the most-watched personality on Twitch and, according to last year's Twitch leak, is the highest-paid star on the service. He's raked in an estimated $8 million since 2019, and is open about the fact that he's spent a lot of it gambling—a few weeks ago he boasted of losing $2 million in a month, an amount so mind-blowing that his own dad called him live on-stream to remonstrate.

On his most recent stream, xQc spent a lot of time watching the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial, watching TikToks, playing Clash Royale, and then ended by gambling real money on online slot machines. A minor controversy began in chat about whether he had appropriately tagged this as sponsored content with '#ad', and arguments began happening about whether he should be gambling on stream and in particular whether he should be taking money to do it.

This eventually raised xQc's ire and he began to argue back, first on the stream itself and later in stream chat. Important context for this is that xQc has in the past faced serious backlash for streaming gambling, and at one point apologised and said he wouldn't do so again—so some accuse him of hypocrisy.

«I don't really give a fuck,» said Lengyel. «The reality is people are a bunch of hypocrites when they say stuff like that [...] Everybody threw us all under the bus when the chips were down, and everybody turned on us. Everyone was a bunch of bitches. But when some other streamers did it, everybody flipped and said, 'oh dude, if I had that much money, I would do it too! I respect this guy!'»

xQc continues for a few minutes in this vein, before explaining his decision to promote gambling again. «You know what, at the end of