Fans were horrified when they witnessed magician Max Major seemingly hang himself from a noose during Kai Cenat’s Twitch livestream.
Cenat, who has over 15 million followers on the streaming platform, was in the middle of his Mafiathon 2 livestream on Tuesday when Major pulled a prank on him.
Per a video shared online, the magician stood on a yellow platform with a noose around his neck as he told the 22-year-old internet star to pull one of the handles in front of him.
When Cenat pulled a red handle, Major appeared to have been hanged.
The streamer, along with rapper Sexyy Red, looked shocked as people rushed to cut the rope around Major’s neck.
“What the f–k? Wait, no, no! I’m not getting banned! I might get banned! Is he good? I’ll stay here. I’ll stay here! Can I stay here?” Cenat said.
However, Major later revealed that he was only trying to pul an elaborate prank on the young streamer.
“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,” Major said in a YouTube video Tuesday.
“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 added.
“Since the first time we met, you pushed me, you challenged me, and you wanted to see me fail. And I thought tonight, I’ll give you exactly what you asked for. You see, you thought the game was for me to influence you to make the right choice.”
Major said he planned “to influence” Cenat to “make the wrong choice” by choosing the red handle.
Cenat, however, did not take the prank lightly, saying on his Twitch stream that he and his crew were made to “look crazy.”
He also said that he told Major to come back on the stream and explain what happened to his viewers but he declined.
Cenat read a text that Majors sent his team that said, “It’s Max, I don’t have my phone, I think we have everyone leave, and we let the story be what it is. I’m the bad guy, but coming back, it doesn’t change anything. Let the story be what it is.”
He went on to call Major “selfish” for refusing to clear up in the air at the moment. At the same time, many viewers took issue with the hanging prank, taking to social media to express their feelings.
“this is sick af you set kai up for failure literally and making a joke like that live to that many people is crazy,” one netizen wrote on Major’s YouTube video comments section.
“Bro 200,000 ppl just watched some dude get hung as a joke? Dude thats not funny. The least you can do is give an apology,” another added.
“Unacceptable decision you made. It was not a prank that was a real life incident that happens everyday! You’re an evil person for running away instead of apologizing right after. Shame on you,” a third person commented.
“faking suicide as a ‘prank’ is terrible bro,” a fourth said.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
