Félix "xQc" Lengyel is a former professional Overwatch League player for the Dallas Fuel who has since transitioned into becoming a popular content creator on the platforms of Twitch and YouTube. While known most for his streaming of Overwatch, viewers can often find xQc partaking in various activities and playing other titles on his Twitch stream. However, a recent video that xQc uploaded to his YouTube channel that featured him watching YouTube videos on his Twitch stream was striked by YouTube for containing "harmful or dangerous content", and the Twitch streamer was not pleased.
Taking to his Twitter account, xQc posted a photo showing that a video of his titled "XQC Media Monday #3 w/CHAT ft. Moxy" had been striked for being "harmful or dangerous" content. The popular Twitch streamer and Overwatch personality was very confused as to why his video had received a strike from YouTube for being dangerous content when it consisted of him watching other YouTube videos that were on the platform and had passed the terms of service for Twitch.
The Overwatch personality ended his post with a simple message for the video sharing platform telling it to "wake up".
My youtube account just got a STRIKE for the "media monday" vod that I uploaded on there. The reason is: Harmful or dangerous content. That vod is literally me sitting there and watching videos from youtube directly and exclusively, IT EVEN PASSED TWITCH TOS. @YouTube wake up. pic.twitter.com/uFBMS2YrZ5
— xQc (@xQc) January 9, 2019
Another response from xQc regarding his video being striked for dangerous content came when the streamer was watching a recent video from popular YouTuber Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg that focused on streamers abusing the ability to copyright strike videos that use footage from their streams when they in turn watch videos while streaming.
It remains to be seen if xQc will be able to get the strike against his YouTube video overturned. With the chance of his channel being deleted in the future if it receives more strikes, it is understandable as to why xQc is furious to what is seemingly an unjustified strike against his channel.
(cover photo courtesy of Robert Paul for Blizzard Entertainment)
