The truth behind horror video of YouTuber Kai Cenat ‘hanging’ a man on live stream that has set the internet on fire

The truth behind the horrifying prank video of social media star Kai Cenat ‘hanging’ a man on a live stream has been revealed after the magician responsible for the stunt gave away his secret.

Cenat, a wildly popular live streamer with 13.5 million followers on Twitch, was seen ‘hanging’ a man during a broadcast after he was asked to pull one of two ropes in front of him.

Video footage from the live stream showed a shirtless man, later revealed to be magician Max Major, standing on a yellow stool with a noose around his neck, seconds before Cenat pulled the rope.

Screams could be heard as the man was pulled up and those around him brought him down immediately.

Cenat was heard saying to his cameraman: ‘What the hell? Wait, no, no! I will not be banned! N***a, I might get banned! Is he good? I’ll stay here. I’m staying here! Can I stay here?’

But it was later revealed that the man who was hanged was YouTube magician Max Major, who pulled an elaborate prank on him.

Major said he knew Cenat would try to outsmart him and deliberately planned the trick so the streamer would pick the ‘wrong’ rope.

Major said in a video after the stream: ‘What you don’t know is that it was all according to my plan. Look, at the beginning of my speech I said that tonight was about elections.

‘But not just the choices you made tonight, but the choices you made since the day we met. 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.

“But the whole time I plan to influence you to make the wrong choice and I knew you would choose the red handle.”

Although Major was safe and in control of the situation, Cenat said he was not happy at all.

‘Let them go! He wants n****s to look… we just look like black people looking crazy. This is how they want things to look. It’s not worth it bro.

‘We scream at him, we just look like a whole bunch of crazy looking black n****s. So let God handle it, brother.’

The internet was also in an uproar over the video, with one social media user saying of the clip: ‘I’m not saying Kai Cenat hangs that guy as a stunt, but even if he didn’t know he should have shut it down straight away.

‘I’ve been a subscriber for years and I’m extremely bothered – suicide is no joke.’

Another wrote: ‘Why the hell is a hanging straight part of a Kai Cenat stream?’

Others blamed Cenat for his lackluster reaction to the hanging, with one person writing: ‘Did he seriously say “I can be banned” after literally hanging someone?’

Max Major, the magician who organized the prank, has over a million YouTube subscribers and more than 400,000 followers on Instagram.

He worked with Cenat in 2023, showing him a card trick alongside rapper G Herbo.

Major first became known to the world after appearing on America’s Got talent in 2020, where he showed off his magic skills.

He described himself on his website as a ‘world-renowned mentalist’ who specializes in ‘real life Jedi mind tricks’.