Social media star Kai Cenat hangs magician from noose in disturbing livestream stunt but its not what you think

Social media star Kai Cenat appeared to hang YouTube magician Max Major by the neck from a noose in shocking footage — but it was later revealed it was all just a sick prank intended to scare the viral streamer.Cenat’s livestream showed Major, 40, standing on an elevated yellow platform shirtless with his hands bound and a noose around his neck attached to a counterweight.He asked Cenat to choose between two colored ropes and pull one.When he selected the red rope, the noose instantly hoisted Major up in the air, who appeared to begin choking as the panicked streamer and his friends stood helplessly by.“What the f–k? Wait, no, no! I’m not getting banned! N—a, I might get banned! Is he good? I’ll stay here.

I’ll stay here! Can I stay here?” Cenat frantically said to a cameraman.Medics were seen in the footage swarming the fallen magician — but Major had one last trick up his sleeve.Hours later he released a YouTube video revealing Cenat had unwittingly fallen prey to an elaborate ruse designed specifically to scare him half to death.“If you’re watching this, it means something has gone terribly wrong … but what you don’t know is that was all according to my plan,” he said in the video.“See, at the start of my performance, I said that tonight was all about choices.But not just the choices that you made tonight, but the choices that you made since the day that we met,” he said, claiming he’d been meticulously conditioning the Twitch star to choose the red rope all along, thus setting the climax of the prank in motion.Cenat is known for pulling pranks of his own and the elaborate set-up “hanging” segment was several hours into a marathon stream specifically being held to boost his subscriber count.

So it’s entirely possible Cenat was also in on the gag.However, he later bashed Major for what he called a “selfish” stunt, claiming the YouTube magician with 1.1 million followers was trying to make black people look bad.“Le...