YouTuber and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat finished a livestream with MrBeast in style: He, seemingly, had his streaming room blown up by fireworks. The stunt, because of course it was, terrified the vast numbers of live viewers.
Kai Carlo Cenat III is currently the U.S.’s number one Twitch streamer, so a live broadcast with the world’s most popular YouTuber, James Stephen Donaldson, was something of a big deal. The pair united to give away $310,000, splitting it 31 ways among viewers, all done while sat in front of the most enormous pile of fireworks.
Look, I’m very old, and find the desire to watch Cenat screeching about his intentions to use his stockpile of fireworks as “defense” against his colleagues, while multi-millionaire MrBeast witlessly grins and mumbles, to be inexplicable. But quarter of a million people watching love strongly disagree, and I’ve got to respect that.
During the hour-long stream, the pair pick people essentially at random to give money to, promote Donaldson’s chocolate bars, and ramble about their heights, until Cenat’s friend Davis comes in carrying a large cake of fireworks, and begins a somewhat staged argument about who blew up whose room with fireworks in the past. This culminates with Davis telling Donaldson to “get out,” before Cenat and Davis physically fight, and the latter places his cake on top of the vast pile of fireworks and lights it.
You know what a whole lot of fireworks going off in a confined space looks like? It looks like smoke. However, what it sounds like is pure brilliance.
It’s a good, if not perfect, replica of Cenat’s regular streaming room. The absence of a window on the right of the screen is something of a giveaway, but the pillars and peculiar shape of the background are convincingly rebuilt. It’s enough that, if you’re not deliberately looking for it, to pass. So you can only imagine the chat’s reaction when the whole place appears to go up in smoke. So much smoke. And then the stream cuts off.
If only confined fireworks behaved as the do in cartoons, and ought to in real life, and offered us a spectacular display of colorful explosions. Either way, it made for a pretty impressive July 4 display, if somewhat less traditional.
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