About

XQC Despair is a Twitch emote and .gif meme that uses the face of popular streamer XQC. The emote can be described as a moving and visual translation of the Traumatized Mr. Incredible format.

Origin

The emote was first uploaded to the website BetterTwitch, which is used as a hub for emotes, on October 5th, 2021 by the user WILLIAMSHAKESPARE^[1], and it features XQC looking solemn in grayscale with a solid black outline for the rest of the image (shown below).

Spread

On January 29th, 2022, the emote xqcDespair was combined with a quick clip of XQC laughing to create the contrasting .gif where XQC goes from laughing to serious, and uploaded to Tenor by the user DefinitelyEnder^[2] (shown below).

On April 13th, 2022, the r/Dankmemes Subreddit had an upload from Redditor^[3] CoolDude-6_9 which uses the meme to make a joke about male masturbation, earning 12,000 upvotes in two days (shown below).

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