Streamer 'genuinely upset' nobody took him seriously after claiming female fan behaved inappropriately: 'I didn’t know what to do'
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Félix Lengyel — better known as xQc on Twitch — shared a story with his 11 million followers about an inappropriate fan interaction at a TwitchCon afterparty.
TwitchCon 2022 has already been under fire since the event took place on the weekend of Oct. 8. Most notably, at least two attendees claimed to have been seriously injured by one of the more popular exhibits.
Lengyel claimed he was at an afterparty and talking to other popular streamers when a woman approached him and was being “too touchy.” He added that he said he told her to back off but it didn’t stop her advances.
Finally, he said he leaned in close to her ear and clearly said, “I’m taken” — which, given his very public breakup with his long-time girlfriend, the streamer Adept, in September, may have been a fib.
“I did that like four times, telling her to back off,” Lengyel alleged in his video. “She’s laughing and s***.”
Lengyel then said he was sitting on one of the available couches and talking with fellow streamer Omie when he felt the woman put her hands on his legs from behind.
“I’m like ‘yo, I’m taken can you back off?’ I’m done with this s***,” he recalled. “Five minutes later, I’m just chilling there again looking around, and she puts both hands on my legs and goes all the way up.”
Lengyel then alleges that the woman touched him inappropriately and made him uncomfortable enough to run to the men’s bathroom looking for help.
“I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “I froze up and I asked other people to help me. I start going to the bathroom because I want to get out. I get to the bathroom, I look behind me and she’s chasing me.”
Lengyel added that the situation made him feel so uncomfortable he left his Airbnb that he had booked with other streamers and stayed at a Twitch-provided hotel instead.
“I’m genuinely upset because I think it’s lame and I hate it,” he said. “I told her a bunch of times and she wouldn’t stop it.”
Visibly distraught in the video, Lengyel voiced his frustration over the woman not listening to him and other people not taking his discomfort seriously.
“I feel like people didn’t care that much. I got upset about it, it’s annoying,” he concluded.
Several of the more than 240,000 people who watched the video chimed in with the same comment: “Reverse the roles.” The point was that had Lengyel been following and inappropriately touching a woman at the event, it would’ve been taken more seriously.
Lengyel made his opinion on sexual harassment heard in mid-September when streamers Mizkif and Trainwreck got into a Twitter fight that resulted in sexual assault allegations against Mizkif being made public.
“I’m not afraid of anything. I’m not afraid of any leaks. I don’t have skeletons in my closet,” Lengyel claimed.
The conversation happened right before Lengyel got backlash for pretending to sniff streamer Pokimane’s chair while tuning into her stream.
“Guys, I take it back,” Lengyel later said about pretending to smell Pokimane’s chair. “That was kind of f*****. It was pretty weird. I was on no sleep. I’m not going to lie to you chat, it was pretty weird. Don’t emulate that behavior, chat. It was kind of weird.”
If you or someone you know needs support after experiencing sexual violence, contact the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN) at 1-800-656-4673 or chat online with a trained counselor. You can also connect with a Crisis Text Line counselor at no charge by texting the word “HOME” to 741741.
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