TWITCH STAR CONDEMNS NYC UNION SQUARE RIOT HE SPARKED

— Holding up the front page of the New York Daily News, Twitch star Kai Cenat decried the riot that erupted at Union Square during his planned PlayStation giveaway last week.

“Bro!” Cenat yelled during a Twitch livestream Wednesday night already viewed nearly a million times. “This is f---ing insane!”

Cenat started the 19-minute stream, his first comments on the chaos, holding up the cover of Saturday’s Daily News headlined “Union Square Chaos.” He then thumbed through the paper, showing the two-page spread on the mayhem.

“I don’t condone any of the things that went on that day,” he said.

“I see videos and people (acting crazy). I’m asking myself, ‘Why? Why?’ When we do things like this it not only needs to be safe, it needs to be fun. We can’t go running around and destroying this and destroying that.”

Cenat was referencing the multiple videos of his followers, mostly teenage boys, jumping and dancing on cars during the aborted video game console giveaway.

Cenat has 6.5 million followers on the gaming site Twitch as well as four million followers on YouTube.

The influencer said the free PlayStation 5s were meant to be his way of “giving back to the community” but things got out of hand.

Cenat was one of five people arrested on felony crimes for the destruction. On Friday night, he was freed with a desk appearance ticket on a low-level, Class E felony charge of rioting, as well as misdemeanor charges of inciting a riot and unlawful assembly.

He admitted that he will need to go offline “for a little bit” as he defends himself against the charges.