Kai Cenat

Some Lesser Known Facts About Kai Cenat

• His parents belong to the Caribbean; his mother is from Trinidad and Tobago, and his father is from Haiti.

• Kai Cenat and his three siblings were raised by his mother.

• In 2018, he began creating prank and challenge videos and uploaded his first YouTube video on 13 January 2018.

• He dropped out of school in 2020 because it was difficult for him to manage both schoolwork and content creation.

• Kai Cenat joined the YouTube group AMP after being noticed by fellow YouTuber Fanum from the Bronx and started appearing in their videos regularly.

• In February 2021, he switched from YouTube and started streaming on Twitch, sharing gaming and reaction content.

• In 2022, Kai Cenat began featuring celebrity guests on his streams such as Bobby Shmurda (April), Lil Baby (October), and 21 Savage (November), with his highest views reaching 283,245 at one time.

• On 8 May 2022, he released his first song ‘Bustdown Rollie Avalanche’ with rapper NLE Choppa.

  

• Kai Cenat appeared in the trailer of the song ‘Distraction’ by Polo G in June 2022.

• On 31 January 2023, he started a month-long subathon, a type of live stream.

• By 28 February 2023, Kai Cenat became the most-subscribed Twitch streamer of all time, with 306,621 subscribers at the peak.

• In March 2023, he earned about $23,280 monthly from sleep streams, leading to an annual income of $285,480. His sleep broadcasts were watched for over 5.6 million hours.

• On 17 April 2023, Kai Cenat was temporarily suspended from Twitch for unknown reasons but returned soon after. Initially, it was considered a permanent ban, but that was an error.

• In May 2023, he and IShowSpeed launched a livestream show titled the Kai ‘N Speed Show, exclusively on Rumble.

• In September 2023, Kai Cenat appeared alongside Fanum in the music video of the song ‘Fan’ by Offset.

  

• In October 2023, he directed his first music video for rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie.

  

• On 14 December 2023, Nicki Minaj appeared on his stream, breaking his previous viewership record with 348,593 live viewers.

  

• On 4 August 2023, Kai Cenat and Fanum announced a PlayStation 5 giveaway in Union Square, Manhattan. Thousands of followers came to participate but the event turned into a riot.

• The New York City Police Department arrived at the event as the crowd moved into shops, and Cenat was arrested for encouraging civil unrest. Police arrested 65 others.

• Kai Cenat is credited with popularizing viral internet slang like ‘Rizz,’ which means ‘style, charm, or attractiveness,’ and ‘Gyat,’ a term used to refer to someone with nice buttocks.

• ‘Rizz’ was named Oxford University’s Word of the Year for 2023, and ‘Gyat’ was nominated for the American Dialect Society’s 2023 Word of the Year.

• In May 2024, the charges against Kai Cenat were dropped by Manhattan District Attorney ‘Alvin Bragg’ in exchange for an apology and $57,000.

• On 8 February 2024, during a livestream, he announced his official partnership with Nike, becoming the first streamer to sign with the company.

  

• On 13 July 2024, Kai Cenat appeared in a MrBeast video titled ’50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000.’

  

• In 2024, he participated in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game organised at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.