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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Twitch gamer Kai Cenat, who has over 20 million followers on the gaming platform, scheduled the real-world meet-up at 3:30 p.m. and planned to give away PlayStation 5s, computers, microphones and other gaming accessories. But within a half-hour, the crowd of nearly 1,000 kids broke down into chaos with the attendees tossing cones and brawling.

Kai Cenat reportedly arrested after giveaway causes riot in New York City - Dexerto

Kai Cenat has reportedly been arrested following a planned giveaway during an IRL Twitch stream that caused a riot in New York City.

www.dexerto.com

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Society collapsing?

 

[OverHeat]

All that for a PS5

 

[Pejo]

Just Gamer™ things.

 

[Tsaki]

It's not 2020 anymore people. You can find PS5s at your local electronics store.

 

[BrunoCoel]

all of this could be avoided if this was a Xbox Series S giveaway.

 

[The Pleasure]

all of this could be avoided if this was a Xbox Series S giveaway.

Then only Colt Softwood and Floorian would be hyping it.

 

[DeaDPo0L84]

Baldur's Gate 3 hype is real.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Nah just dem cities. NYC has been shit for a while now.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Police just gave statement on the incident.

 

[iamvin22]

It's not 2020 anymore people. You can find PS5s at your local electronics store.

For free?!?

 

[DeepEnigma]

Think Don is having PTSD?

 

[dreamstation]

Kai who? Never heard of him

 

[Raonak]

Society collapsing?

People do crazy things for a playstation.

 

[DevilMayFlyForAWhiteGuy]

Seems peaceful to me.

 

[Mokus]

Man, the PlayStation 5 launched 3 years ago.

 

[lh032]

seems like a lot of poor people in US.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

I lol'd anyway.

 

[StereoVsn]

I mean I remember a freaking riot at Walmart some years ago during Black Friday when they had some super cheap TVs or BluRay players or something.

Morons will be morons.

 

[Pelta88]

PS5 thirst is a different beast entirely.

 

[DeepEnigma]

It's a peaceful riot. Summer of love bay bay!

 

[jroc74]

Man, the PlayStation 5 launched 3 years ago.

PS5 thirst is a different beast entirely.

It's like a re launch. This is crazy.

And I was sure there wouldn't be scalpers for the Spider-Man 2 console plates and controller. The console itself I guess I understand.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[proandrad]

all of this could be avoided if this was a Xbox Series S giveaway.

Beat me to it. Microsoft should use this to show why they need Activision to compete.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Metal as fuck.

Go gamers.

 

[NeonGhost]

I wouldn’t be that sad if New York, Chicago or Los Angeles got nuked off the map

 

[kiphalfton]

It's not 2020 anymore people. You can find PS5s at your local electronics store.

Nope, just trashy people who would risk possible assault charges over $500.

 

[SJRB]

Zero tolerance please.

Stupid motherfuckers.

 

[Noxxera]

Haha I would love to be there, it made it into my countrys news too.

 

[Spitfire098]

all of this could be avoided if this was a Xbox Series S giveaway.

 

[Kilau]

Seems peaceful to me.

Mostly™

 

[OverHeat]

If I give a PS5 on GAF will you guys riot?

 

[Kurimao]

all of this could be avoided if this was a Xbox Series S giveaway.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

Animals...

Spoiler

But seriously, whose idea was it to invite thousands of people for a very limited giveaway?

 

[AJUMP23]

We lived in a society. Then destroyed it with social media.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Kai Cenat right now

 

[Neff]

Good idea to get a permit before doing stuff like this.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Kai Cenat right now

Guy's probably laughing all the way to the bank, this will give him more publicity than he's ever had.

I'm guessing - I hadn't heard of him until this happened.

 

[The Pleasure]

Think Don is having PTSD?

Put Phil Spencer's face on that and have it say GAMEPASS.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Guy's probably laughing all the way to the bank, this will give him more publicity than he's ever had.

I'm guessing - I hadn't heard of him until this happened.

He was arrested by the authorities. Inciting riot is a felony. But he'll probably only get a slap on the wrist because he's famous and rich.

 

[Captain Toad]

All that for a PS5

A PS5?

People will beat the hell out of each other for a t-shirt that doesn't fit with an advertisement on it, if a man in a mascot shoots it out of a cannon into a crowd of people.

 

[ShadowkillXNA]

Should have been giving away Series S's instead.
I'd love to see the "crowd" for that.

 

[The Pleasure]

Should have been giving away Series S's instead.
I'd love to see the "crowd" for that.

 

[Patrick S.]

 

[Skifi28]

Nope, just trashy people who would risk possible assault charges over $500.

 

[realcool]

For free?!?

a price tag is merely a suggestion

 

[Wildebeest]

Oh no, he'll probably catch a three-day ban from twitch and only twice as many viewers when he comes back. What a disaster for his streaming career.

 

[Vox Machina]

I waited in line overnight outside a Best Buy in NYC for an RTX 3000 series drop, by the morning the "line" had devolved into an angry mess outside the front door and obvious scalpers were showing up in cars and just waltzing to the front no fucks given. It got hairy for a bit and lots of shoving was done. I thankfully walked away with a 3080Ti but it was not something I would want to do again. These kinds of things always get nasty.

 

[delirium trigger]

Imagine being nypd? You can't really do anything yet you constantly have to deal with crazy shit.

 

[JimboJones]