Felix "xQc" Lengyel has the third-highest active subscriber count on Twitch right now, but he's looking to make his way to the top of the list. The often opinionated streamer has decided that he will follow in Ludwig's footsteps and host his own sub-a-thon, with the goal to break Ludwig's newly established record of over 283,000 active subscribers.
xQc has been high on Twitch's active subscriber count list for a while now and he's created much buzz lately receiving a series of bans from the NoPixel roleplay server in Grand Theft Auto Online. As he waits out his latest NoPixel ban, he has time to plan how he'll beat Ludwig's record.
Beginning mid-March, gaming content streamer Ludwig began a sub-a-thon with rules that basically added 10 seconds to a clock every time he gained a subscriber. Ludwig intended for the sub-a-thon to last a month, though it seems he could have gone even longer. During that time, Ludwig became the second Twitch streamer to gain 200,000 subscribers and eventually broke Tyler "Ninja" Blevins' existing active subscriber record of 269,154. xQc believes he can beat that record and plans for his own sub-a-thon to last even longer than 31 days.
Although xQc has yet to detail exactly what he plans to do during the sub-a-thon, he stated in a Twitch stream on April 20 that he is anxious to start the continuous livestream "within the next 60 days." He claims that "now is the perfect time to do a sub-a-thon," but he clearly wants to be prepared for the strain a 31+ day stream may put on his streaming setup and his own health. xQc has reportedly already contacted someone to help him with ironing out the technical feasibility of such a stream and feels he can beat Ludwig's record "by a long shot."
Part of the reason for xQc's delay in starting the sub-a-thon is to match up with the Amazon Prime deal that offers one free month-long subscription to members. Essentially, gamers who have Amazon Prime can subscribe to one Twitch streamer every month for free, and these free subscriptions were an essential part of the momentum behind Ludwig's Twitch sub-a-thon. When Ludwig first began his sub-a-thon, he was over 100,000 subscribers behind Ninja's record, and although Ludwig has lost nearly 50,000 subscribers since his sub-a-thon ended, he is still over 100,000 subscribers ahead of xQc.
xQc says he does want to put a limit on the length of his sub-a-thon but he wants it to be longer than Ludwig's. It will be interesting to see how xQc entertains viewers during this time and whether he will end up playing more on the NoPixel roleplay server or imitate some of Ludwig's methods to pass the time like cooking, working out, or even sleeping. xQc has been a part of several Twitch trends since last year from Chess' massive popularity spike to similar spikes for Rust and Grand Theft Auto Online, so he's quick to capitalize on new ways to entertain his audience.
Source: xQc Twitch Stream