Although the fighting game community has millions of players and followers all around the world, we’re still a fairly niche hobby like a lake in a vast ocean.
There are times, however, where fighting games capture the attention of much larger eyes like coming across the desk of Kai Cenat, one of the largest Twitch streamers in the world.
That’s what happened last night when the largest fighting game content creator Maximilian Dood debated the top 10 fighting games of all time with fellow YoVideogames members Kenny “Unrooolie” and Steve “Infinite_SGE.”
As they’re arguing over whether to include Tekken 3 or Tekken 5, 100 gifted subs suddenly rained down on Max’s stream with Kai Cenat’s name attached.
The fighting game crew doesn’t believe it was really the previous number-one streamer in the world behind the big donation at first with Unroolie wondering out loud, “What is he doing watching us?”
As they continue to think the subs came from an impersonator, Max checks Kai’s stream and sees him watching all of them, which makes all the guys pop off more, as the streamer has been smiling and laughing from this whole interaction.
Max personally thanks Cenat and saying he wished they could have met each other at the Streamer Awards earlier this year where Kai received Streamer of the Year and the Dood earned his Legacy Award.
Steve also notes that he’s personally a fan of Cenat too.
A huge shout out to @KaiCenat for the 100 gift subs to @maximilian_ channel last night with @unrooolie ! Appreciate your streams & keep doing what you do! Big ups from unc pic.twitter.com/CSmgEqfPlZ
— Esteeban (@INFINITE_SGE) November 4, 2024
Max gives a salute to Kai, who offers one back in respect shouting, “W’s, that was an amazing reaction.”
With the 100 Twitch gift subs, that means Cenat dropped at least $500 for a group of dudes yelling about the best video games ever.
From Kai’s perspective, he’s been running a 24-hour stream subathon where more time is added to a countdown clock every time he receives a new subscription.
During this time, Cenat was seemingly checking through the most popular Just Chatting channels on Twitch where Max was number two.
Cenat appeared almost instantly captivated by the giant list of games and the guys being passionate about them. His Twitch chat was actually excited to see Max pop up with some suggesting that he offer up some gifts to the guys.
After looking through Max’s other pages, Kai quickly agreed and sent out the 100 gift subs.
He stayed around a little while longer to listen to them and noted afterwards that they’re such good friends.
At that time, Kai was sitting over 164,000 subscribers on Twitch where he’s now reached over 177,000 with almost 83 hours still on the subathon clock.
Cenat previously became the most-subscribed streamer with over 306,000, but he was recently surpassed by the VTuber Ironmouse, who also had her own cameo role in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising with Vikala’s release.
While he is no stranger to having the likes of John Cena and Kevin Hart on his videos, we haven’t really seen much in the way of actual fighting games from Kai.
This wouldn’t be a crossover most would have expected, but perhaps this encounter can get the ball rolling to show Cenat the joys of what fighters can have to offer.