Twitch streamer Kai Cenat breaks subscriber record

Kai Cenat has breached the grounds for attracting the astir Twitch subscribers.

The 21-year-old US streamer amassed 300,000 subscribers connected the Amazon-owned streaming service, pursuing a month-long thrust to summation subscriptions.

His 'subathon' - launched connected 1 February - saw Cenat streaming 24 hours a day: chatting, gaming and interviewing guests, arsenic good arsenic sleeping, connected camera.

The fashionable YouTuber officially overtook erstwhile Twitch grounds holder Ludwig Ahgren connected Tuesday.

Twitch is simply a livestreaming platform, wherever radical typically play video games portion chatting to viewers.

Ludwig antecedently held the grounds for the astir Twitch subscribers, hitting a highest of 283,000 viewers during a non-stop watercourse successful April 2021.

Two years later, Cenat broke Ludwig's grounds with his ain subscription marathon - oregon 'subathon' - a watercourse with a countdown timer which is extended each clip idiosyncratic subscribes to the channel.

Twitch offers subscriptions to users arsenic a means of supporting their favourite streamers and creators connected the platform.

In the UK, the basal subscription bundle costs £3.99 - oregon $4.99 successful the US - with further tiers costing more.

Users tin besides acquisition subscriptions, truthful subscriber numbers tin increase, successful part, acknowledgment to wealthier fans who wage for monthly subscriptions for different viewers.

Cenat began his streaming marathon astatine the commencement of February to people the opening of Black History Month successful the US.

Over the period helium has entertained viewers with guests including comedian Reggie Brown and a Barack Obama impersonator.

On 22 February, helium became the archetypal African-American streamer to scope 200,000 Twitch subscribers.

After it was confirmed helium had breached the benchmark of 300,000 subscribers connected Tuesday, Cenat told viewers his streaming marathon was the hardest happening helium has ever done.

"Stop saying 'I did it' - we did it," helium said, arsenic the full subscriber number ticked implicit 300,000. "On the past time of Black History Month, we broke 300,000!

"And I'm truthful blessed I did it with the radical astir me. I couldn't person chosen anybody other to bash this with," helium added.

Cenat's ongoing watercourse whitethorn inactive summation a fewer further subscribers, but his subathon volition travel to an extremity imminently, aft helium vowed it would past nary longer than 30 days.

It is presently unclear whether helium plans to instrumentality a abbreviated interruption from the level earlier returning to regular Twitch streams.