What happened to Magician Max at the Kai Cenat subathon? Kai is furious when a prank goes wrong

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Jacob Hale

Kai Cenat was left speechless after magician Max pulled a huge stunt on his stream, potentially putting his life in danger and risking Kai being banned from Twitch, or worse.

Kai is nearing the end of his month-long subathon, dubbed ‘Mafiathon 2’, breaking all sorts of records in the process.

Most notably, he is pushing for nearly 600,000 subscribers at the time of writing, a record that many could not have imagined would be possible.

However, his stream was derailed in the early hours of Wednesday, November 27, when Magician Max – also known as Max Major, with whom he has previously collaborated – attempted a stunt that put his own life in danger.

Magician Max “prank” risked his own life

Kai and his friends were taken down to the basketball court, where Max was standing on the scaffolding, with three nooses tied behind him. Each rope was tied to a ripcord placed in front of Kai, who was given the choice of which color string to pull.

After a test run, Kai was left with two leashes, after which Max placed one around his neck and let Kai choose, saying that he “knows he’ll make the right choice.”

Kai pulled the red string and Max rose into the air, with everyone present instantly seriously disturbed as Kai told the crew to “put the camera down.”

When Kai got back to his setup, he found a note with a URL to a video where Max explained that it was all premeditated and he knew exactly what was going to happen.

Kai went on to explain that he had no idea what the trick was supposed to be when Max talked to him about it, just that he had been told it would “break the internet.”

He added: “Max told my team he was doing a completely different thing at the end, it was nothing related to that. Then he did it.”

He spent the following hour dwelling on the situation, trying to contact Max to get him to come back to explain, but the magician refused all calls and did not want to return.

Finally, he sent Kai a text saying, “let the story be what it is” and that coming back to the stream won’t change anything.

Kai faces backlash over stunt

Since the clip started going viral, Kai has started receiving backlash from fans and critics alike, saying he shouldn’t show that content on the stream.

Some users shared the clip and claimed that Kai was in “full control” of what was happening, suggesting that he had been told what the wires were attached to and simply could not have pulled them.

However, some argued that it was “not Kai’s fault” and that he should not be under fire for it as he and his team were misled.

Kai eventually decided to go ahead and continue his stream as usual, though the moment and everything that followed went viral in the hours that followed.

The streamer has had some big moments throughout Mafiathon 2 with some big celebrities, including Marlon Wayans and Chris Brown, and he’ll be hoping this doesn’t overshadow the overwhelmingly positive memories of his subathon.