His parents, Saturnino Cadena and Lorita Cafe are Filipino migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates.

[6] To further entice the youth to read, Cadena, together with six other authors Bryan Olano, Albert Apolonio, Marco Pile, Mark Anicas, Rhadson Mendoza, Sic Santos, and Angelo Nabor formed a boy band called The Bookmarks in 2013, then managed by PSICOM and Viva.

[8] Alongside being a YouTuber, he also worked as a radio DJ on 93.9 iFM hosting a program called Gabi Ng Hanash (lit.

[3] Cadena later moved to 90.7 Love Radio in 2017, hosting "KarLloyd" alongside fellow vlogger and DJ Kara Karinyosa.

An August 21, 2020, video on his main channel followed Cadena as he went around his neighborhood in the Philippines and distributed tablets to students from his former school La Huerta Elementary for distance learning.

[16] Additionally, he encouraged everyone to donate to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are working for the relief operations and rehabilitation of areas in Mindanao that were badly hit by an earthquake in 2019.

[17] In 2020, during the Taal Volcano eruption, he gave away relief packs to the community amid the lockdown and also extended help to COVID-19 frontliners by donating personal protective equipment to a hospital in Parañaque, Philippines.