A Very Prominent Streamer Has Weighed In on the Charlie Kirk Meme Cycle. The Quote Is Going to Cause Problems.

There are takes, and then there are takes that require their own press release. A certain French-Canadian streaming institution, never one to locate a line before crossing it, reportedly turned his attention on September 13 to the circulating Charlie Kirk face-swap memes and arrived at a destination that few anticipated. According to a clip flagged across r/LivestreamFail, the quote reads, in full: "Let's have a new meme.. wanna get George Floyd'd? Why is that now not okay, but the others are? Now explain because you wouldn't be able to."

Whether this reads as a genuine free-speech consistency argument or something considerably less defensible is, at this hour, a matter the discourse is actively sorting out without much agreement. Sources who requested anonymity because the group chat is private describe the reaction as "rough." The streamer in question is, of course, xQc. History will note he did not appear to hesitate before hitting send.