Twitch streamer Kai Cenat broke the record for most subscriptions on the Amazon Inc.-owned service Tuesday, with the number topping 300,000.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old rocketed to fame on the platform at a nearly unprecedented rate by live streaming Rockstar Games\u2019 Grand Theft Auto V<\/em>\u00a0and chatting with his fans, who pay $5 to $25 to subscribe to his Twitch content.<\/p>\n After just two years on Twitch, Cenat beat previous records set by stars Tyler \u201cNinja\u201d Blevins and Ludwig Ahgren, who reached over 283,000 subscriptions in 2021.<\/p>\n Cenat started his subscription drive on Feb. 1, the first day of Black History Month, and has been going nonstop, even keeping the camera on as he sleeps.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is legendary,\u201d Cenat told the 200,000 people watching as the ticker blew past Ahgren\u2019s record.<\/p>\n Cenat\u2019s fame also has broken through into the world of mainstream pop culture, with the streamer appearing in a music video with rapper Lil Uzi Vert.<\/p>\n \u201cThis has been the hardest thing of my life and I\u2019m glad I did it. We did it,\u201d he said Tuesday. \u201cWhatever you want to do, you can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Laura Lee, Twitch\u2019s chief content officer, said it was \u201cthrilling to see Kai and his community make waves and be seen. We are excited to see what they create together next.\u201d<\/p>\n After just two years on Twitch, Kai Cenat beat previous records set by stars Tyler \u201cNinja\u201d Blevins and Ludwig Ahgren, who reached over 283,000 subscriptions in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":482021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[84635,21051,60301,83469,62312],"class_list":["post-482015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-kai-cenat","tag-twitch","tag-tyler-ninja-blevins","tag-video-streaming-apps","tag-video-streaming-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: YouTube testing 1080p \u201cpremium\u201d streaming quality<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"