American YouTuber Edward Centeno shot to fame with his YouTube channel Arcade Craniacs, which he co-launched with his then-girlfriend, Nicole “Nikki” Land, also known online as Wwabisabi. Edward’s channel mostly showcased ways to cheat at and win arcade games. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they started posting 3AM Chuck E. Cheese videos, which gained them further popularity. Edward and Nikki split in 2021.
Early Life
Edward Centeno apparently grew up with an elder brother. He launched his first YouTube channel on March 20, 2007, long before he became a social media star. However, he started posting regularly on YouTube in July 2017.
Social Media Career
Edward Centeno shot to fame with the YouTube channel Arcade Craniacs, which he co-launched with his girlfriend, Nikki, or Wwabisabi, on July 15, 2017. The channel mostly had content on arcade games, carnival games, and claw machine, and showed how people could win those games by cheating.
Many of their videos were about arcade games at Disneyland and carnivals and showed Nikki trying out and winning those games. The channel gained millions of subscribers within a short span and was aimed at adults. The first video on the channel that gained over 500,000 views was titled How To Cheat At Carnival Games.
However, with the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, Edward was unable to upload quality content on his channel and thus started the 3AM series. Edward and Nikki initially heard a rumor about Chuck E. Cheese closing down and made a video on that. They then began making 3AM Chuck E. Cheese videos, with a mix of horror and sarcastic comedy. The videos were hugely popular with their fans. They featured characters such as Chucky, Elmo, and Barney in their 3AM series. His November 2020 video Nobody came to his Chuck E Cheese birthday :( has earned him more than 26 million views.
His other content on the channel include pranks and vlogs, such as IGNORING My Girlfriend For 24 Hours!! - She Cried. After his break-up with Nikki, Edward started making videos with Agent Gabriel.
Edward’s first YouTube channel, which is self-titled, has garnered a few thousand subscribers. He has also amassede thousands of followers on his Instagram account, centeno__
Family Life
In January 2017, a stranger beat Edward up with a metal baton. He raised a lot of money through a GoFundMe campaign supported by The Berrics, a Los Angeles skate park, for his surgery.
He was in a relationship with fellow YouTuber and Arcade Craniacs member Nicole "Nikki" Land, better known on social media as Wwabisabi. On October 12, 2021, they split, as Edward was apparently emotionally unavailable. Following this, Edward live-streamed himself crying and blamed himself for the split. However, his fans attacked Nikki online.
On November 23, 2021, Nikki claimed Edward had groomed her when she was just 17 and he was 23. Edward then denied everything and called her a liar. Some reports state Edward and Nikki also had a son, Tuv.
Edward likes anime and manga. He owns a poster of Tomie from the manga Junji Ito and many Rilakkuma plushies. His fondness for Chuck. E. Cheese has earned him the nickname “Chucky.”
