Behind the scenes of MrBeast and Kai Cenat’s explosive Twitch collab

Two of the biggest creators in the world got together and blew up house.

OK, not really. But MrBeast and Kai Cenat‘s long-teased collab did give hundreds of thousands of viewers a scare when what appeared to be Cenat’s streaming room went up in firework-sparked flames.

Cenat, who has 12 million followers on Twitch, and MrBeast, who is nearing 300 million subscribers on YouTube (and is the platform’s most-followed creator), got together for a July 3 stream where they gave away $310,000 while sitting in front of a bombastic pile of fireworks.

They split the cash between 31 winners while chatting with viewers and promoting MrBeast’s Feastables—but then, around half an hour into the stream, there was a disturbance: Cenat’s friend and fellow AMP creator Davis Dodds showed up with a hefty-looking firework that was labeled as being “for professional use only.”

After some brief beefing with MrBeast and Cenat that sends a mock-harried MrBeast exiting stage left, Dodds lights the “professional” firework, setting it atop the pile. Then he and Cenat beat it out the door. What happened after was a massive, colorful explosion that left live viewers worried for Cenat’s safety.

But there’s no need to worry–it was all a prank.

@mrbeastHappy 4th of July😂♬ original sound – MrBeast

Not long after the livestream concluded, MrBeast uploaded a behind-the-scenes TikTok

showing that he, Cenat, and their fat stack of fireworks were never in Cenat’s house at all.

Instead, their teams built “a scale replica of Kai’s room,” MrBeast explains, showing the tarp-covered set built in an enormous field. “No joke, we recreated his room in a field so we could have a firework war and just start launching stuff. And when it definitely burns down, we’ll prank you guys.”

Not everyone was keen on the duo’s explosive idea, though. After the stream concluded, Twitch removed its VOD from the platform and contacted Cenat.

“They told us ASAP, we can get banned for blowing it up,” Cenat said in a July 4 stream. “That’s why the VOD went down. If anyone went to check the VOD, the VOD disappeared. I was on the verge of getting banned. I had to hurry up and tell my rep—the people that represent me on Twitch—I had to show them everything. I had to show them the whole set.”

Cenat ended up not getting banned, and the VOD was restored on his Twitch channel. At press time, it’s racked up over 3.5 million views, with the VOD from Cenat’s 4th of July explanation stream bringing in another 11 million.