Shocking footage showed social media star Kai Senat hanging YouTube magician Max Major with a noose, but it was later revealed that it was all just a gross prank aimed at scaring the viral streamer. It turned out that.
The Senat livestream showed the 40-year-old major standing shirtless on a tall yellow platform with his hands tied and a counterweight attached to his neck. He asked the Senat to choose from two colored ropes and pull one.
He selected the red rope, which instantly hoisted the Major into the air and appeared to begin suffocating him as the panicked streamer and his friends stood helplessly.
“What? Wait, no, no! He's not banned! No, he might be banned! Is he a good person? He's here. He's here! Can I stay here?'' Senat said desperately to the cameraman.
The video showed medics swarming around the fallen magician, but the Major had a final plan.
Hours later, he published a YouTube video revealing that Senat had unwittingly fallen prey to an elaborate ruse designed specifically to scare him half to death.
“The fact that you're watching this means something has gone horribly wrong…but what you don't know is that it was all according to my plan,” he said. said in the video.
“Look, I said at the beginning of the performance that tonight is all about choices. But it's not just the choices you made tonight, it's the choices you've made since the day we met,” he said. , claimed that the Twitch star had been meticulously coordinating her choice of red rope, thus setting up the climax of the prank move.
Cenat is known for pulling pranks of his own, especially with elaborately set up “hanging” segments hours after marathon streams held to increase his subscriber count. Ta. So it's quite possible that Senat was also in on the gag.
However, he later accused Major of a “selfish” stunt, claiming the YouTube magician, who has 1.1 million followers, was trying to make black people look bad.
“Let him go! He wants n—-s to look like…crazy black people. That’s how they want things to look. It's not worth it, brother. We look like a bunch of crazy black people screaming at him. So leave it to God, brother,” he later said. I was furious at the broadcast.
This stunt is not the first time a hanging has caused controversy in the world of live streaming.
In 2018, YouTuber Logan Paul uploaded a video showing someone dying by hanging from a tree in Japan's “Suicide Forest,” but later apologized and said he was only trying to raise awareness. he claimed.
Senat, 22, who has more than 20 million followers between YouTube and the live streaming platform Twitch, caused chaos in the Big Apple last July when he appeared in Union Square to give away PS5 video game consoles. .
A large crowd swarmed the area, throwing bottles and other items at officers and bystanders. Senat did not have a permit and was initially charged with inciting a riot and unlawful assembly, but Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg later dropped the charges.
