kai cenat is out here rating celebrities on their texting habits and the internet has thoughts

kai cenat's new york times press cycle for vivet has officially entered its celebrity gossip arc. per reporting from bleacher report and yahoo, cenat apparently revealed details about lebron james' texting habits and named a 76ers player as the most down to earth celebrity he has encountered.

the specifics, per bleacher report, are that cenat described lebron as having a "surprising quality" that other celebrities don't have, while separately identifying the 76ers star as the one who actually acts like a normal person. no names for the 76ers player were confirmed across the sources, but chat, this is the ranking system we didn't know we needed.

the response online split pretty cleanly into two camps. the first is people who are very invested in which specific 76ers player got the nod, with a number of threads apparently turning into a guessing game, because the lore demands answers.

the second camp immediately started asking what the lebron quality actually is. the leading theory across replies, per the threads, is that he texts back, which several people described as genuinely surprising for someone of his stature. others pushed back that this is a low bar and that more famous people should probably just answer their phones.

a separate piece of the nyt press run also surfaced this week. two nyt video clips show cenat explaining what he thinks makes a great livestreamer, and separately laying out why he doesn't do pay-to-play streams. per the clips, his position on pay-to-play is apparently pretty firm. the reaction to that one was mostly people noting that his audience is large enough that he doesn't need to, followed by a smaller contingent who seemed genuinely surprised the policy is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight.

the vivet angle also picked up a quote, per yahoo, where cenat said people approached him about partnering on the brand and his response was, paraphrasing, that he decided he could do it alone. the internet found this either refreshing or extremely on-brand depending on who you asked, with several replies framing it as a flex and at least a few arguing it's just accurate.

the full press cycle is still running ahead of the vivet fashion show. the celebrity texting tier list, apparently, is a bonus feature nobody ordered.

anyway. lebron texts back and that's more than most people can say.