Kai Cenat Makes Kids' Content

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About

Kai Cenat Makes Kids' Content refers to a theory and viral debate that Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, and other members of the AMP group like Fanum and Duke Dennis, make content for kids, similar to children's YouTube. The theory predominantly spread after Cenat went viral in early 2024 when he responded to the accusations, claiming on stream that he makes content for adults only. Discourse about Cenat making children's content predominantly stems from slang terms that he popularized like "rizz" and "gyatt" becoming heavily associated with Zoomers and Gen Alpha.

Origin

Currently, the first known viral post about Kai Cenat making content for kids was a quote posted by X^[1] user @RaptorsGen on June 3rd, 2023, who captioned a video of Duke Dennis "babying" Kai Cenat with, "If you still watch Kai cenat over the age of 16, it says a lot about yourself." The quote received over 5,100 likes in nine months (shown below).

Spread

In October 2023, Kai Cenat faced controversy when he did a "jail stream" and some saw it as the glorification of jail for children, such as X^[2] user @LITsauce on October 30th, 2023, whose post received roughly 2,600 likes in five months (shown below).

On January 13th, 2024, X^[3] user @domainsdomain tweeted a video from Cenat's then-recent stream in which he claimed, "The content that I make is for me and other grown niggas. If your kids tune in, you gotta call their parents. That ain’t me." Over two months, the video gained roughly 16.6 million views and 16,000 likes (shown below).

The tweet gained numerous quotes and replies that mocked Cenat's claim. For instance, on January 14th, 2024, X^[4] user @thewolfofy quoted the video, writing, "Streamers really think 27 year olds get off of work and be typing 'W mans' and 'gyatt' in the chat," earning over 205,000 likes in two months (shown below, left).

Also on March 14th, 2024, X^[5] user Zhang Yong (@zhangyong02) quoted, saying, "child audience . 12 year old ,. invent word ' rizz ' and ' GYAT ' . abysmal fortune ." The post gained over 13,000 likes in two months (shown below, right).

News outlets like Dexerto^[6] and Sportskeeda^[7] notably covered the discourse in articles posted in January 2024.

Memes about the theory continued going into 2024, evident in a quote posted by X^[8] user @IcyVert on March 20th, 2024, who captioned a Fanum Tax video with, "hahaha get it? the joke for over a year now is the fat guy takes everyone’s food! this stream is for adults btw," receiving over 37,000 likes in a day (shown below).