xQc explains why social media influencers \u201cdon\u2019t help anyone\u201d L: xQc\/Twitch. R: Unsplash.Top Twitch streamer Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel claims that social media influencers are not helping anybody and he\u2019s glad that they haven\u2019t reached into streaming just yet. The former Overwatch League professional has never been one to hold back on his opinions \u2013 weighing in on a whole host of subjects during his time on Twitch. He\u2019s taken on anything from raging about captcha log-ins and the modern internet, to why Android is better than iPhone, but he\u2019s now directed his focus on the growing culture of social media influencers. The former Overwatch player has racked up a loyal following on Twitch. During his July 13 stream, the former Overwatch player had been reacting to a video centered around social media influencers and their opinions on their job. The streamer quickly took issue with their comments, especially when two participants opened up on \u2018inspiring\u2019 people and ultimately helping them. \u201cTheres a billion reasons to go into streaming dude, and to go into YouTube or whatever, but if you say \u2018Oh dude, I went to help people\u201d started xQc. \u201cPosting your toes on a beach on Instagram doesn\u2019t help anyone dude, shut up.\u201d It didn\u2019t take long for some members of his chat to state that he himself is an influencer because of his standing on Twitch. While xQc didn\u2019t address those comments directly, he took a larger look at the livestreaming platform itself. The Candian continued: \u201cTwitch is a higher tier of influencing, but nobody that streams really flexes the influencing potential.\u201d He further explained that the livestreaming platform gives broadcasters the chance to become influencers quickly, but you would be hard pressed to find someone who solely dedicates themselves to plugging merchandise or sponsorships over streaming. Of course, it\u2019s not out of the ordinary to find streamers taking on short sponsored streams for certain new releases or computer peripherals. It\u2019s a topic that Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek touched on back in March, explaining that it was something fans were probably going to have to get used to. Yet, considering his comments, it\u2019s probably unlikely that xQc spins his streaming success into full-blown influencer career any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
xQc explains why social media influencers \u201cdon\u2019t help anyone\u201d L: xQc\/Twitch. R: Unsplash.Top Twitch streamer Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel claims that social media influencers are not helping anybody and he\u2019s glad that they haven\u2019t reached into streaming just yet. The former Overwatch League professional has never been one to hold back on his opinions \u2013 weighing […]<\/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-65236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65236","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=65236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}