Chicklet was too stunned to speak after finding out his wife Maleni may have lost her $25,000 ring at Kai Cenat’s Streamer University.
During a Twitch stream on Monday, the social media comedy couple’s signature banter took a different turn near the 21-minute mark linked here.
“Yo babe, have you seen my engagement ring?” Maleni asked, as her husband stared back at her blankly. “You think I left it over there? Or you saw it on me? ‘Cuz I don’t remember.”
Chicklet said, “I don’t know if you’re trolling me right now, because when you don’t know where you put 25,000 … And that’s the light pack. I’m not even gonna mention how much it really is. I’m gonna just say that it’s 25,000.”
Their usual comedic back-and-forth that made them viral sensations now carried a sense of real panic.
“When that’s not on your finger and you come into the room like, ‘Yo babe, did I lose my ring?’ That worries me because you should be a little bit more worried about 25k missing off your finger.”
Maleni then admitted she panicked privately, “I already screamed in the bathroom but I was like, ‘No, let me relax. Maybe he knows where it’s at.’”
“I’m not gon’ lie, I saw a video from yesterday. Somebody was like, ‘Where’s y’all rings?’” Chicklet asked, before Maleni quietly shuffled out of the room—presumably to look for it.
Chicklet reuploaded the moment to his Instagram account, confirming Maleni found the ring, telling fans, “She found her ring y’all don’t worry.”
The moment comes not long after the couple left Kai Cenat’s Streamer University, a content bootcamp he held in Akron, Ohio which he designed to educate the next wave of viral stars.
The event brought together 150 rising creators, including Chicklet and Maleni, for three days of content strategy and mentorship and from the biggest names in streaming.
Chicklet (real name Steven Negron) and Maleni Cruz turned into social media stars with videos of their exaggerated couple arguments.
“Honestly, when we first started doing this, we didn't have a goal,” Chicklet told People en Español in 2018, saying he was a dishwasher before he became famous—thanks to a video of his-now wife singing Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” in his face at a club. “I still feel like there's no goal because it could all be gone tomorrow.”
“When someone messages you, just enough to say that they've been through a rough situation and you've made a difference in their life, it means the world,” Maleni said.