Kai Cenat Egg

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About

Kai Cenat Egg refers to an ironic meme trend referencing Twitch streamer Kai Cenat that gained traction on X / Twitter in June 2024. The meme is a play on the World Record Egg meme of 2019. The Kai Cenat Egg meme is typically attributed to X user @NintendoGCN, who posted the earliest known instance of the phrase online.

Origin

A precursor to the Kai Cenat Egg meme is a May 26th, 2024, post by X^[1] user @NintendoGCN featuring a "Kai Cenat Circle." The post gathered over 2,600 likes in a month (seen below).

The earliest instance of the phrase "Kai Cenat Egg" being posted online is a June 6th, 2024, post by the same user,^[2] a post that was subsequently quoted with @sunsetunit's^[3] post, the earliest known Kai Cenat Egg image (seen below).

Spread

X^[4] user @NintendoGCN posted Kai Cenat Egg again on June 10th, 2024, a post that directly parodied the "World Record Egg." The post read, "Can we get Kai Cenat Egg to be the most liked post on X? Do yo thing guys! 👀⬆️ #Viral," and gathered over 700 likes in two weeks (seen below, left).

On June 23rd, X^[5] user @Malizlp quoted the original post with an Oh That's Real Nice meme edited to include the Kai Cenat Egg (seen below, right).

On June 24th, 2024, X^[6] user @chronakey's Kai Cenat Egg meme gathered over 19,000 likes in two days (seen below, left). Also on June 24th, X^[7] user @Clocky333 joked about how they lost a friend because of Kai Cenat Egg, gathering over 30,000 likes in two days (seen below, right).

Later on June 24th, X^[8] user @shatticus posted a parody of engagement bait style posts, writing, "When you tweet #KaiCenatEgg 🥚 it has a special like animation! 😱" The post gathered over 14,000 likes in two days (seen below, right).