IShowSpeed and Kai Cenat reportedly garnered 5.3 million watch hours each during the Fortnite marathon

Darren "IShowSpeed" and Kai Cenat have reportedly clocked in around 5.3 million watch hours from their viewers during the recently concluded Fortnite marathon stream. The stream started on December 27, 2024, and lasted till December 29.

Darren and Kai had announced the joint gaming stream with the objective of teaming up and playing Fortnite non-stop till they got a win in the ranked mode. After one of their #1 finishes was voided, the stream lasted for about 57 hours gaining quite a lot of viewers on both Twitch and YouTube.

IShowSpeed's broadcast, albeit streamed in five separate parts, was watched for a total of 5.3 million hours as per stats shared by Streams Charts. According to the graph on X, the YouTuber's stream peaked at around 186.6K viewers with approximately 200K followers gained during the marathon.

Streams Charts have also shared states for Kai Cenat, with the Twitch streamer clocking in around 5.33 million watch hours in total from his stream. The AMP member's stream peaked at a comparable view count of 160K with around 188K followers gained on Twitch.

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Kai Cenat and IShowSpeed took 57 hours to complete their Fortnite marathon after they voided one of their wins due to stream snipers

On December 27 before getting into their first Fortnite match, both Kai Cenat and IShowSpeed had warned viewers against stream sniping. For those unaware, stream sniping is a frowned-upon practice, where viewers, who are watching a broadcast, intentionally sabotage a content creator's online game.

Since the streamers were freely broadcasting their gameplay online, stream snipers could easily find and locate them on the map, giving them an undue advantage over the content creators. While most stream snipers tend to disrupt gameplay, Kai Cenat and IShowSpeed got help from a couple of players during their 80th attempt about 20 hours into their stream.

Because the two had gotten help from stream snipers, the content creators decided to continue their challenge of getting a Fortnite win without any help. IShowSpeed even asked the popular app Ben The Dog if they should redo the challenge.

Many fans started criticizing Kai Cenat and IShowSpeed after the stream crossed the 48-hour mark without a valid win, with some raising concerns about the streamers' Fortnite skills. That said, viewers did not have to wait for New Year's to see the marathon end as the streamers managed to get a legitimate win after 206 failed attempts.