Social media star Kai Cenat appeared to hold YouTube magician Max Main by the neck from a noose in surprising footage — nevertheless it was later revealed it was all only a sick prank meant to scare the viral streamer.
Cenat’s livestream confirmed Main, 40, standing on an elevated yellow platform shirtless along with his fingers certain and a noose round his neck hooked up to a counterweight. He requested Cenat to decide on between two coloured ropes and pull one.
When he chosen the crimson rope, the noose immediately hoisted Main up within the air, who appeared to start choking because the panicked streamer and his associates 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 mentioned to a cameraman.
Medics had been seen within the footage swarming the fallen magician — however Main had one final trick up his sleeve.
Hours later he launched a YouTube video revealing Cenat had unwittingly fallen prey to an elaborate ruse designed particularly to scare him half to dying.
“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 mentioned within 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 mentioned, claiming he’d been meticulously conditioning the Twitch star to decide on the crimson rope all alongside, thus setting the climax of the prank in movement.
Cenat is understood for pulling pranks of his personal and the flowery set-up “hanging” phase was a number of hours right into a marathon stream particularly being held to spice up his subscriber depend. So it’s completely attainable Cenat was additionally in on the gag.
Nonetheless, he later bashed Main for what he known as a “selfish” stunt, claiming the YouTube magician with 1.1 million followers was attempting to make black folks look dangerous.
“Let him go! He wants n—-s to look … like black people that look crazy. That’s what they want the things to look like. It ain’t worth it, bro. Us screaming at him, we just look like a whole bunch of black n—-s that look crazy. So, let god handle that, bro,” he fumed afterward his stream.
The stunt isn’t the primary time a dangling has controversially entered into the world of livestreaming.
In 2018, YouTuber Logan Paul uploaded a video displaying a useless particular person hanging from a tree in Japan’s “suicide forest” — later apologizing and claiming he was solely attempting to boost consciousness.
Cenat, 22, who has greater than 20 million followers between YouTube and livestreaming platform Twitch, prompted chaos within the Large Apple final July after he confirmed up at Union Sq. to present away a PS5 online game console.
Huge crowds swarmed the world, throwing bottles and different gadgets at cops and bystanders. Cenat didn’t have a allow and was initially charged with inciting a riot and illegal meeting, however Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg later dropped the costs.
