{"id":65116,"date":"2025-01-28T19:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/xqc-calls-out-andy-milonakis-for-sympathy-baiting-after-twitter-dispute-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:55:29","slug":"xqc-calls-out-andy-milonakis-for-sympathy-baiting-after-twitter-dispute-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/xqc-calls-out-andy-milonakis-for-sympathy-baiting-after-twitter-dispute-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"xQc calls out Andy Milonakis for sympathy baiting after Twitter dispute &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>xQc calls out Andy Milonakis for sympathy baiting after Twitter dispute TwitterAfter calling out celebrity Andy Milonakis on Twitter, Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel took to his Twitch stream to criticize Milonakis for what he called \u201csympathy baiting.\u201d The beef between the two started after Milonakis had been going back and forth with another streamer, Byron \u2018Reckful\u2019 Bernstein, about Bernstein\u2019s Twitch channel. Milonakis asked for an apology from Bernstein after the exchange and that\u2019s where xQc decided to get involved. The Twitter exchange between Milonakis and xQc was pretty hilarious and included plenty of barbs both ways, but it would only be the beginning. Talking to viewers on Twitch during an Overwatch match, xQc explained why he had such a problem with Milonakis, \u201cDon\u2019t you see what Andy\u2019s doing? It\u2019s such simple knowledge sympathy baiting.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s just garbage,\u201d the streamer lamented. \u201cHey Twitter, guys! Guys! Look! I\u2019m typing to help Reckful, I\u2019m being a nice guy, I\u2019m Andy, I\u2019m being nice guys look I\u2019m helping him.\u201d He also said Milonakis was being intentionally passive-aggressive and tried to play it off, \u201cI\u2019m helping him, but I\u2019m being passive-aggressive and then Reckful will get upset at me because I\u2019m being passive-aggressive.\u201d This would be a decent comeback if you weren&#8217;t a grown 42 years old adult. \u2014 xQc (@xQc) October 24, 2018 Then, after Milonakis was done being passive-aggressive, xQc said he started to play the victim, \u201c\u2018Oh no guys, he\u2019s being mean to me.\u2019 \u2018Oh it\u2019s ok Andy you tried to help him.\u2019 \u2018I did I tried to help him,&#8217;\u201d the streamer said as he fake cried for viewers. \u201cShut the fuck up man,\u201d xQc exclaims towards the end of the clip. \u201cWhat a fucking cuck.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xQc calls out Andy Milonakis for sympathy baiting after Twitter dispute TwitterAfter calling out celebrity Andy Milonakis on Twitter, Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel took to his Twitch stream to criticize Milonakis for what he called \u201csympathy baiting.\u201d The beef between the two started after Milonakis had been going back and forth with another streamer, Byron \u2018Reckful\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}