Wale recently opened up about his viral run-in with streamer Kai Cenat. The incident happened earlier this year at the BET Awards. Wale spoke on the matter on Shannon Sharpe's Club Shay Shay podcast. The rapper said the situation affected him deeply.Wale and Kai Cenat met while Kai Cenat was livestreaming at the BET Awards. They greeted each other. However, Kai Cenat admitted later to his audience that he did not know who Wale was. The clip was quick to go viral.Now, as Wale opened up about the incident and its effect on his mental health, netizens reacted, saying,"That is when you realize the timeline moved on without you"Tminnzy @tminnzyLINK@FearedBuck That’s when you realize the timeline moved on without youInternet reactions to Wale revealing what happened after Kai Cenat failed to recognize himFearBuck took to its official X (formerly Twitter) page to share the viral clip from the latest Club Shay Shay podcast, captioning,"Wale says he was so upset that Kai Cenat didn't recognize him that he stayed in his hotel for a couple of days"In the clip, Wale said,"'I'm 20-year-old. You feel me?' That's what they're acting like I did. And I'm like, yo, I'm just saying you made me look crazy. I feel uncomfortable in this room. At that moment, I'm like, damn, everybody making me the bid on the internet just because I was like, You know, like, just because he didn't."I was just confused. And then when they said I pressed him, I was like, oh... Oh, so that means I got to leave. Like, I got to go. I got to go to my hotel for, like, a couple days. Like, it was just, it was, like, not that. I don't expect nobody. I introduce myself at my meet and greet sometimes. Like, that's how I move. Like, I don't be like, you got to know who I am."I was upset for, like, five days in a row. So when he is talking about mental health at the stream awards, I'm like, yes, yes, yes, mental health. You get it now. Imagine giving your life to this game and then you go to the awards to just support the culture that you've been a part of for 13 years. And then somebody who asked you to play a video, like, asked you, yeah, yeah, let's play one day."Wale continued speaking about Kai Cenat:"Like, because you saw them last year. And then you go online and everybody's like, yo, that's not, he didn't know who you was. That was funny. And you in a room full of your peers. Right. And I was like, wait, let me go holler at him real quick. And through my vantage point, I'm just like, yo, that made me look crazy, bro. I just didn't like how I felt in the moment. I'm like, yo, bro, we come here to celebrate the culture. And I'm looking at all these people like, yo, he doesn't know who you are. It's so funny. And I'm watching all these people receive awards. It just was like, let me say something for our role. And they took it as me pressing the young and old. And I'm like, bro. I got PTSD."I can't even look at them little cameras no more. I start sweating when I see them joints. I'll be looking at everybody. Anybody that has the archetype that could be on a Twitch, I'll be like... Make sure there ain't no more of that. You know what I'm saying? But also, I think I wanted to make it a teachable moment. I wanted to go on the stream and talk about the generational divide and how that happened and just have conversations around how the generations go because it's like, It's a deep conversation we can have, and I've been dying to have that on stream with the right people of both sides of the culture."Wale concluded, adding,Because, I mean, he's accepted a role, whether he really planned it or not, to be one of the voices in hip-hop. Whether you like stuff or not, we still have to preserve the culture, you know what I'm saying? The guys that came before me, the Jeezy's, the Jay-Z's, the Ludacris's, You know, like we preserve the culture. We preserve, you know what I'm saying? It's not like, oh, you're older, you did it before. Like, you feel me? So that's what that was about. I wish I would have handled it differently. But at the same time, I definitely thought it could be a teachable moment. Because a lot of the artists that come from my era, they don't know how to interact with y'all. Because y'all act like y'all don't like nothing at all. that don't sound a certain way or whatever. Like y'all like hip hop for a certain other reason. So some of them don't know how to talk to them. And some of them is like, oh, we getting money."Netizens soon weighed in under FearBuck's X post to pen their views regarding Wale's recent revelation. Below are some of their reactions:"Kai Cenat was surprised by the simplicity and clamness of one of his viewers during this interaction at Walmart 😭❤️", noted an X user."Maybe he is using it against his fans to boost his stuff", penned another."Kai Cenat not knowing who Wale is more on Kai tCenat han Wale. People keep forgetting because they got rich that most of these streamers were nerds. They anime kids not hip hop babies. And Wale has way less self esteem than he portrayed in his rhymes. He has a Hip Hop classic.", commented a third.Others also chimed in:"Pretty sure Kai Cenat was born in like 2000 😂 of course he doesn't know who you were dog cmon now…", wrote a netizen."Funny how this bi**h a** ni**a wants to address the Kai Cenat situation MONTHS later while he is battling mental health to make matters worse smfh all cuz he didn't recognize his ass & was salty AF on live? 😤", shared a another."Aww his bromance did not work out.. like wtf 🙃😩😩", commented a third.It is worth noting that Wale avoided turning the moment into a dispute.Also Read: "We getting festive now?": Internet reacts as Candace Owens says she and Piers Morgan "always have fun", despite their "terminal disagreement""Piers is an absolute coward": Internet reacts as Piers Morgan and Candace Owens trade sharp words over the "courage" of "asking questions"